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Computer Lab Lesson Plan - Science
Students examine rocks and minerals. Using the internet, students research rocks and how they are formed. They use word processing software to list minerals and materials that form specific rocks.
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Relating Technology Then and Now Utilizing Sketches of Pitt County
Fourth graders examine the effect of technology on the citizens of North Carolina. Using the Internet, they complete their own research and use a word processing software to share it with their classmates. They use excerpts from "...
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Technology In The Early Elementary Classroom
First graders explore the creation of the world and what was created on each specific day. They read the creation of the world from the Bible, watch a video, and sing a song about the Creator. Using Kid Pix software, 1st graders create...
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The Ultimate Vacation
Students use research skills to solve a problem. They research information needed to plan a vacation. Students create a letter, a flyer, an itinerary, an activity list, cost spreadsheet, a reference page, table of contents and a title page.
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Museum of Computer Technology
Pupils research the five generations of computing devices and computer inventors, and create a virtual museums.
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CAD/CAM Project
Eighth graders are introduced to the CAD/CAM project for their grade level. Using software, they practice using grids and drawing their designs. They discover the need to plan their designs carefully and the importance of accuracy when...
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Digital Storytelling
Sixth graders write a creative story and turn it into a digital storybook. In this digital storytelling instructional activity, 6th graders write a creative story, illustrate the story, and then use computer technology to turn their...
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My Digital Story
Young scholars write and direct digital stories to be presented to their classmates. In this digital stories lesson plan, students can use camcorders, microphones, headphones, storyboards, and more. Young scholars edit their story and...
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Enriching Students' Understanding of Criminal and Tort Law Using Technology
Students define criminal and tort law and explain how they are different.
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Title: Digital Photo Storytelling on Five Senses, a project Based Learning Activity by Mary Gore
Students explore the 5 senses. For this technology skills lesson, students participate in digital storytelling workstations that feature each of the 5 senses. Students create digital cameras and digital voice recorders to explore their...
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Vocabulary Puzzle
Students create vocabulary puzzles using the computer. In this vocabulary puzzle activity, students create vocabulary puzzles using computer software. Students include synonyms of the words and illustrations. Students trade the finished...
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Computer Olympics
Students compete to achieve excellence in math facts, writing terms, problem solving, and writing skills on the computer. In this Computer Olympics lesson plan, students practice the skill of drill and practice in order to succeed and...
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PowerPoint Homophones
Learners work together to develop a PowerPoint presentation using pictures to show the differences between words. They practice using the software and computers. They show their presentation to the class.
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Using Inspiration Software to Explore Characters In Stories
Students identify characters, their qualities, and examples of their qualities and use Inspiration to organize them in a clear and understandable format. After a lecture/demo, students use the program on the next story by themselves.
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Identifying Anger Triggers
Students, while in the computer lab on Inspiration, visit angermgmt.com and then brainstorm additional anger triggers on a concept map together in groups. Once completed, they identify two new anger management strategies to try out in...
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Best Practices in Technology Integration
Students go through various construction techniques needed to bisect angles, lines and arcs, construct a perpendicular from a vertex to a line, construct the center of a circle, transfer an angle, and various other constructions normally...
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Designing And Filming Commercials
Students design and film commercials using digital video cameras and the computer program iMovie in this exciting lesson plan provided by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology.
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Surface Areas of Prisms, Pyramids and Cylinders
Students identify and use appropriate formulas to find surface areas of solid figures, practice using formula sheet to solve textbook problems, construct solid figures of given surface area using TABS+ software program, and use Internet...
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Nursery Rhyme Modernization
Students retell a nursery rhyme updating it and create a video. In this Movie Maker nursery rhyme lesson, students use technology to update a nursery rhyme. Students incorporate special effects, actions, and captured...
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Patterns
Students extend, generalize, recognize, and write a variety of patterns using an AppleWorks template and the Inspiration or Kidspiration educational software. This technology-based math instructional activity is intended for the early...
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Learning About Maps
Students take a "field trip" with the teacher through the school then draw a diagram of what they saw. They bring the maps to the computer lab where they create electronic maps using the software program Neighborhood Map Machine.
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Perimeter
Students measure the perimeter of a square and create squares with specific perimeters in this instructional activity for the early-elementary classroom. The instructional activity includes templates for AppleWorks, Inspiration, and...
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Can Acid and Bases Remedy the Body?
Students experiment with acids and bases using technology-based "probe-ware", computers, and household products in this exciting biology/chemistry lesson. The lesson was written for an advanced 6th grade class.
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Computer Basics and Appropriate Use
View this PowerPoint and go over the basic rules about computers. It is well-suited for all ages because the rules apply to all learners. Everyone benefits from knowing the terms for working with computers. But more importantly, make...