Pupils visit John Schick's Virtual Ellis Island Museum in order to complete research and evaluate how students created their site, how they structured the site, and what sort of information and graphics they included. This list is then...

Students create a person using various shapes and colors and then write a story about their person using Kidspiration. This is a great lesson plan for practice identifying shapes and writing stories.

Students graph water temperature using probe software and a Palm on a class field trip to a lake or pond. Emphasis is placed on collaboration with high school science students and the use of ImagiProbe software.

Students experiment with several chaotic simulation, they build a working definition of chaos. Students reinforce their knowledge of basic probability and percents. They are reminded of previous knowledge that is pertinent to this...

Students study and research irregular fractals and construct a few based on their research. Students practice pattern recognition skills and plane geometry skills calculating dimensions on the Fractured Pictures activity.

Students discuss the nature of stereotyping and prejudicial behavior and their feelings regarding people with visible disabilities. They view part of documentary Graduating Peter then work in groups to chart people's reactions and...

Students investigate the Native American Heritage and explore their customs cultures. They discover characteristics of the Native Americans through the study of their art, artifacts, stories and symbols.

Young scholars explore a newsroom and its newscasters. Using the internet, students view pictures of newscasters. They read information about each person. Young scholars view a 460 degree photo and look behind the scenes at a news studio.

Students utilize available technology to create, produce, and publish an alphabet pattern book. Students use publishing, multimedia and word processing for their writing. They create their own A My Name is Alice Class book based off the...

Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for M. They practice writing the letter M and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /m/. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...

Students explore habitats and the needs of living things. They research a selected animal. Students use KidPix and create a variety of animal riddles. They combine their riddles with those of classmates to create their animal books.

Students brainstorm theme for counting book, work in pairs to create book using Kid Pix that shows numbers one through ten, make correct number of pictures or stamps to correspond to numerals on pages, and print out pages to be bound...

Young scholars explore the geologic activity in Idaho. Using a digital atlas of Idaho, they discover basic concepts in geology and understand the tools in a digital atlas. Students explore rock records, and discuss information gleaned...

Fifth graders reinforce and focus on the meaning derived from the text as a whole and identify and describe the main characters, events and settings in a fiction piece of writing. They incorporate a wide-range of adventurous vocabulary...

In this language arts worksheet, students read detailed information that helps students choose correct articles in their writing. Students learn about nouns that refer to one unique thing, countable nouns, uncountable nouns, proper nouns...

In this force and motion worksheet, students read six paragraphs with numbered sentences about force and the laws of motion and answer one question.

Young scholars explore language arts by reading a story book in class. In this tier two vocabulary lesson, students read the book Cows Can't Fly and identify the use of certain vocabulary terms. Young scholars define the selected words...

Students use an online website to select foods and put them onto a plate to see if they have made healthy and balanced meals. In this healthy meals lesson plan, students review the food pyramid before this activity.

Middle schoolers use Internet and library resources to find the meanings of their first and/or last names and discuss the evolution of the concept of naming individuals.

The Cornell University Ergonomics Web offers "10 Tips for Using a Computer Mouse," that are useful for the prevention of a mouse-related musculoskeletal injury.

Wikipedia offers an excellent encyclopedia definition of the computer mouse. Content includes images, history of the mouse, mice in the marketplace, applications of mice in user interfaces, and more.

Students learn about rotary encoders and discover how they operate through hands-on experimentation. Rotary encoders are applied in tools to determine angle measurements and for translations of angular motion. One common rotary encoder...

In this online course, students will learn how to use and click a computer mouse, how to hold a mouse, and how to use it to get around your computer.

A short article about the computer mouse and the inventor, Douglas Engelbart.