How do databases store and retrieve information? The activities in the resource provide fundamental concepts of databases by introducing an approach that teaches the basics without using computers. The pupils act as the actual data...

How can digital technology of today link us to the events of the past? Scholars use technology to uncover the vast number of historical resources available in lesson 12 of a 22-part America's History in the Making series. Using databases...

US history from 1776 through 1877 is the focus of a comprehensive curriculum guide designed for seventh graders. Each of the seven units in the 102-page packet includes a list of guiding questions, grade-level expectations, links to...

Sequences and series are traditionally thought of as topics for the pre-calculus or calculus class, when learners are figuring out how to develop limits. But this unit uses patterns and slopes of linear functions in unique ways...

Not all energy sources are renewable, as learners investigate in this unit. Made up of six lessons that span a few weeks of instruction, the unit has learners examining US energy reserves and consumption, using data to draw conclusions...

Students explore energy usage in home and in school. They examine the types of non-renewable sources and discover alternate sources of energy. Through group activities, students calculate the perimeter and area of a given room. They make...

Using Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, guide your class in the process of identifying unknown terms using context clues and formulating text-based answers. The lesson plan includes a useful worksheet incorporating scaffolding questions on an...

Students study immigration in the late 19th and early 20th century. In this immigration lesson plan, students participate in activities including creating maps, responding to non fiction text, memorizing and analyzing poetry, and...

How to access electronic sources and databases in addition to print sources and list all in a working bibliography.

This is the 20-page PDF "Choosing Nonfiction Sources." It provides informatation about various types of nonfiction: primary and secondary sources, reference works, databases, newspapers and periodicals, and nonfiction books; it also...

In this tutorial, learn how to enter, manage, and search through large amounts of data in an Access database.

This module is intended for students in an Advanced Placement Statistics course or any high school course that addresses inferential statistics. In this module, students will explore the concepts of direct marketing, a marketing...

This unit includes two sequential lessons. In the first, students create mobile apps that collect data from an Android device's accelerometer and then store that data to a database. This lesson provides practice with MIT's App Inventor...

This site contains Microsoft Access tutorials of varying degrees of complexity.

In Module 3 Lesson 1 of this course on spreadsheets, students will learn how to use the formatting tools in spreadsheets to enhance their appearance. Includes slideshow tutorials.

In Module 1 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons. Content is stored in the Resources section. Practice tasks are not available online so teachers would need to...

In Module 1 Lesson 4 of this course on spreadsheets, students create their first spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel. Includes slideshow tutorials.

In Module 1 Lesson 3 of this course on spreadsheets, students begin learning how to use Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets. Slideshows walk them through how to navigate the menus and tools of Excel.

In Module 2 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons about formulas, functions, and manipulating a spreadsheet. Content is stored in the Resources section. Practice...

In Module 2 Lesson 4 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to alter the information in a spreadsheet by manipulating it and formatting. Includes slideshow tutorials.

In Module 2 Lesson 3 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to save time when setting up a spreadsheet by copying functions and formulas. Includes slideshow tutorials.

In Module 2 Lesson 2 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to use the built-in functions in Excel so that they don't have to retype a formula each time they use it. Includes slideshow tutorials.

In Module 2 Lesson 1 of this course on spreadsheets, students begin learning how to create formulas in a spreadsheet. They learn also about the importance of remembering the correct order of operations. Includes slideshow tutorials.

In Module 3 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons about adding shapes and graphics to spreadsheets, using drawing tools to format them, using the autosum function,...