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Google

Art: Digital Art

For Teachers 5th - 9th
There's no need to filter out the project. Future computer scientists set up a program that acts like a photography filter to complete the sixth of eight parts in the Google CS Art unit. They use the turbo mode in the Scratch coding...
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Google

Art: Paint with Tera

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Here's a creative resource that definitely isn't paint by numbers. As the fourth in and eight-part Art series, learners create a paint program using the Scratch block code. By completing the activity, class members come to understand the...
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Curated OER

Designing the Future of Technology

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Conduct research focused on improving a current technology by having learners work in groups to investigate improvements that could be made to a particular piece of technology. They list the current problems and attempt to develop...
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Curated OER

All the News That's Fit to Click: Analyzing New York Times Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Explore the New York Times, online and in print. Partners take the roles of reader and monitor while each peruses the newspaper. Discussion questions compare the online version to a hard copy print edition. Links provide comparison of...
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Code.org

Events Unplugged

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Introduce event-driven programming. Young computer scientists learn the meaning of event-driven programming and how it is different from previous styles of programming. They play a card game to simulate the challenges that occur in this...
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Google

Art: Introduction and Discovery

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Art isn't the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about computer science. The first installment of an eight-part Google CS Art unit introduces the series and highlights class procedures. Pupils view videos that show how to use...
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Google

Art: Greeting Card

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Greetings from your computer science class! The culminating activity in the eight-part Google CS Art unit has scholars create digital cards. The purpose of the cards is to show their families what they now know about programming.
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EngageNY

Evaluating Reports Based on Data from an Experiment

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
They say you can interpret statistics to say what you want them to. Teach your classes to recognize valid experimental results! Pupils analyze experiments and identify flaws in design or statistics. 
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Kenan Fellows

Electricity: Sources, Usage, Challenges, and the Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What does the future of energy look like? Junior engineers collaborate to discover a solution to the global energy crisis during a very hands-on activity. The unit focuses on learning through collaboration to develop a deep understanding...
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Curated OER

Novel Character Study

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars complete a character study using a database to compile information from a novel. They design a five slide presentation highlighting the character's reaction to different situations in the book. They write an acrostic poem...
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Curated OER

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air Gets Connected

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view video clips from the TV show, "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" to show their different uses of computers. They review the steps involved in designing and planning a networked office or home and analyze the needs of the users...
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Curated OER

Career: Designing a Room

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students apply previous knowledge to design their own great room. Using appropriate color schemes, they also consider room traffic patterns and furniture arrangements. While designing their areas, students give attention to placement...
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Creative Educator

Dream Room Design

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Using the Twist™ application, elementary schoolers design their dream room. They follow the prescribed steps to calculate width, length, perimeter, and surface area in order to create a 2-dimensional representation of their dream room...
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PHET

Planet Designer: Martian Makeover

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Mars used to have liquid water, can you make it come back? Use the lesson and simulation to understand why Mars lost its magnetic field, why atmosphere is important, and what gravity has to do with it. This is the third lesson...
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Curated OER

Computer Applications: Web Design Basics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students become familiar with the workings of Windows 3.11 especially Program Manager, File Manager, and MS DOS Prompt. They open, develop, save, and copy a text file within the windows environment. They become familiar with Netscape and...
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Curated OER

Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 3, Lesson 16: The ABC of Symmetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils follow directions in the ABC of Symmetry to make a butterfly which shows a line of symmetry.
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Curated OER

Package Design

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders utilize the computer and various software programs in order to design a 3 dimensional package which they submit a cost estimate sheet of production in their oral presentation.
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Curated OER

Computer Applications - 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define terms related to the World Wide Web and Netscape. They identify the key components of the Netscape browser and evaluate web sites after determining which characteristics make up a well-designed website.
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Curated OER

Computer Matching

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners practice using the Internet through computer matching.
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Curated OER

Computer Technology Bingo

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students review new vocabulary from their computer technology class. In groups, they participate in a bingo game in which they define terms from a worksheet. They are assessed based on an attached rubric and discuss any terms they are...
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Curated OER

Designing a homepage

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study the concepts necessary to design a homepage on the internet. They evaluate various other sample homepages to brainstorm ideas. Then students create the homepage as directed.
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Curated OER

Computers Can Only Add

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore using mathematics to solve problems in base two. After a teacher demonstration of using base two to write numbers. students model similar problems to explore the concept of number systems in different bases. To increase...
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Curated OER

Web Design

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using Microsoft Word, students will construct a "web page" with hyperlinks to real sites. Students will learn Internet terminology, search strategies, and design techniques. Teacher may also use TechnoLink, an external computer...
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Curated OER

Tiles Or Repeated Pattern on the Computer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a square design on the computer and repeat the square several times to create a pattern.

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