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Hydrophobic Surfaces—Deposition and Analysis
Couches, carpets, and even computer keyboards now advertise they are spill-resistant, but what does that mean? Scholars use physical and chemical methods to coat surfaces with thin films to test their hydrophobic properties. Then they...
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Keyboarding Skills: Elementary
Check out this list of sites for online activities and games that help young keyboarders develop their keyboarding skills. Free downloadable software, typing lessons, concentration games and more. A great teacher resource.
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Computer Charlie
Computer Charlie needs help! Distribute a one-page worksheet to your young keyboarders and have them write the capital letter under each lowercase letter on the illustrated keyboard. An answer sheet is provided.
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The Spanish Keyboard
Is your school fortunate enough to have Spanish keyboards? Provide this short guide to help learners recognize the differences and learn the codes for Spanish accents. Consider providing them with example sentences to type (either in...
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Elementary Keyboarding Activities
Listen to the sound of children's fingers flying across their keyboards as they perform these fun typing lessons. From creating alphabet books and multimedia presentations to researching presidents and writing class newsletters, numerous...
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Gobble Squabble
A Thanksgiving-themed interactive boosts addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Using the keyboard's arrows, players navigate a turkey through a maze, gobbling up as many berries as possible without getting tagged by...
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A Clue For Keyboarding
Clever clues provide an entertaining way to help learners memorize the location of each letter and symbol on a keyboard. No computers, keyboards, or charts are needed, yet this game reinforces keyboarding skills. Your class will beg to...
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KEYBOARDS
Second graders become familiar with appearance and characteristic sound of piano, identify piano as part of percussion family, find middle C on the keyboard, observe scale, chord, and "broken" chord, and listen to a well-known classical...
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Keyboarding Dinosaur Endurance Exercise
Can you type Pachycephalosaurus? Beginning keyboarders demonstrate basic keyboard typing skills by typing as many dinosaur names as they can in a two-minute time period.
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Lesson Plan 1: Practice Keyboarding Skills
The two lessons in this resource serve as an introduction to the keyboard and typing. While seated at a computer, pupils view an overhead display of the board and are introduced to the functions of the various keys. Designed for language...
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DIGITAL WATERWORKS
Students add digitally-produced, water sound effects to a song, using electronic keyboards.
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A New Twist on the Keyboard
Elementary learners design and construct a diagram of a keyboard on the floor of the classroom. They outline the keyboard in masking tape by estimating size, proportion, and key position. Then they can interact with the giant keyboard as...
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Geography, Map Skills & the Internet:
Students research various websites focusing on Italy while enhancing student utilization of computer, keyboards and the Internet. They discuss their findings on the geography, history, topography, and culture.
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Story Add-Ons
Fourth graders practice proper language conventions when word processing using portable keyboards. They use timed writing prompts and working in groups write a story that has a defined beginning, middle and end.
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The Space Between
High schoolers explore major, minor and perfect intervals and watch the PowerPoint presentation "The Space Between." They identify the various intervals by sight and differentiate major, minor and perfect intervals. Students perform the...
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Dan, the Flying Man Comes to Our Town
Learners listen to a story called Dan, the Flying Man. Students then make a class book describing what Dan would fly over if he came to town. Learners illustrate the book using watercolor paints. Students write their stories using a word...
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Tekkie Time
Students identify, review and use computer technology by reviewing pictures of CPUs, keyboards, mice, disk drives, etc.
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TI-Nspire™
We landed on the moon with less computing capabilities than you can find in this app! Here is a multiple function calculator that takes all the power you get from a handheld and adds the wonderful large screen that only a tablet can...
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Star Wars: Building a Galaxy with Code
Welcome to the code side. The interactive lesson introduces coding in a game format with familiar characters. Young computer experts learn to develop code to control the interaction of the characters in the game. The activity ends with...
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Grammar - Revise Your Symbols
Explore the different symbols of grammar. Middle schoolers write two sentences using different symbols, including asterisks, apostrophes, and ellipses. They also read and answer guided questions.
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This Land is Your Land - Travel Posters
Eleventh graders compile a list of places in the United States where they have either traveled or where their relatives or friends live. They collect travel posters, brochures, postcards, and maps from their region of the United States.
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Fats Waller, Handful of Keys
Playing piano is great fun and playing jazz is even better. Kids watch a video of Fats Waller playing the song, "Handful of Keys," they then use either a piano key print out or Orff instruments to practice his signature stride piano...
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Guild Hall
Incorporate a research project into your study of Shakespeare and the Renaissance Period. Class members assume the role of an apprentice seeking membership in one of the various guilds that existed during the Renaissance period. After...
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For the Birds
Second graders observe, identify, and document birds sighted at the library feeder station. They observe and document birds in order to begin their birder's life list. They apply scientific concepts and principles by using library...
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