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Holiday Cards
Students review basic computer skills needed to create a holiday card along with a database of at least twenty five contacts. They create their family greeting card including graphics, correct spelling an grammar. Using their database...
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7 Internal Messages
In this technology worksheet, learners compose e-mails that are meant to be shared on a closed system or network. The directions for each is listed.
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Adventures in Alice
Students use the Alice computer program and use the basic features to manipulate a world within it. In this programming instructional activity students use their computer skills to create a storyboard in the Alice program.
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Introducing Microsoft Word
Students explore Microsoft Word. In this technology lesson, students discover the basic word processing commands. Students enter and change text within the word document.
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Photoshop for Fifth Graders - Autofixes
Sixth graders complete Photo-shop activities. In this technology integration lesson plan, 6th graders open a picture in Photo-shop and complete several adjustments using the program.
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Photoshop Curriculum
High schoolers will learn the basics of their desktop; from turning on their machine to opening Photoshop and beginning a new program. The instructional activity is technology based and the user should have the necessary software.
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Be Internet Awesome
Teach the qualities of a digitally smart citizen with a set of lesson plans created by Google. Along with creating strong passwords, learners explore how to protect their privacy, when to stand up for others against cyberbullying,...
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Introduction to the Internet
Students conduct a brief overview of the Internet in four main sections: Background of the Internet, E-mail, Web Browsing, and Web Searching. The latter three sections of this unit cover the mechanics as well as the underlying concepts...
Creative Visions Foundation
Production: Filming
After viewing and analyzing documentaries and working in groups to storyboard and prepare, your class should now be ready for the production stage of the documentary process. The eighth lesson in the series, this plan provides...
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Learning the basic intervals
Students, while in the computer lab, practice improving their harmonic dictation by using the computer program Auralia. They stress mastery of melodic dictation to the ear and listen the Beatles song "Let it Be," containing a basic chord...
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Music Technology Programs
Students are introduced to the music technology programs for the next school year. They practice reading notes and playing piano. They use the internet to research careers in music.
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Create a Computer Story
Second graders will create their own story and read it aloud. In this literacy/technology lesson, 2nd graders use computer software to create their own story, which is read back to them while they write it. Afterward, the student should...
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Lesson Plan with Technology - Introduction to Elements and Symbols
Students use a computer program to study elements and the periodic table. They follow the directions on the computer program, and answer the questions presented. The program is self scoring, and students may print a certificate that...
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Music Technology
Students use their practice book to complete their piano lessons. They examine the history of music and complete pages in a workbook. They create their own music by using the computer.
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Publisher Skills Assessment
Students complete a technology integration project using Publisher. In this technology lesson plan, students use Publisher to create magazine activities for the American Revolution, indigenous cultures, California missions, colonization,...
Microsoft
Plagiarism Fair Use Copyright
Nothing makes junior high and high school teachers more frustrated than plagiarism. Instruct young writers about copyright laws and the correct ways to paragraph information without copying the exact words. A set of secondary-level...
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Computing in the Cloud
What and where is "the cloud"? The instructional activity teaches scholars about the history of cloud computing and about its current uses. It also teaches how to install a multiple guest OS in a host OS and how to use cloud computing...
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Inside the DNA
Get your class to take a closer look at DNA. Pupils conduct research to determine the methods used by scientists to analyze the molecular structure of DNA. The class members investigate different types of molecular imaging along with gel...
Code.org
Using Simple Commands
Turtles might be slow, but class will zoom by when your pupils build a program in which reptiles draw a grid. Using App Lab and JavaScript, class members build a program to find the most efficient way to draw an image of a...
Teach Engineering
Keepers of the Gate Journal and Brainstorm
The second segment of a seven-part series reviews the challenge of determining whether gargling with salt water helps a sore throat. Individuals journal what they know about the challenge and what they are trying to figure out to...
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Technoartist
Students explore the Microsoft paint program to examine artwork styles and recognize certain features. In this graphic art instructional activity, students incorporate computer technology with visual arts while acquiring basic computer...
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Hector's World
Students discover how they can protect a computer from a virus. In this computer awareness lesson, students discover that strong passwords can protect computer files. Students watch a video regarding technology in their world...
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Computer Science: Pendulum
Learners investigate the basic properties of pendulums as a function of spreadsheets. Working in groups, they measure the period for a pendulum at six different lengths and record the results. They prepare a file using Microsoft Excel...
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Technology Integration
Third graders describe and locate the five geographical regions of the state of Virginia. Using that information, they organize the descriptions in a database they created. They are graded based on accuracy and spelling all noted on a...