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Classroom Tech: Word Processing Guidelines
Word processing is a vital skill that most students need to master. This site presents basic guidelines that students should follow to improve their word processing projects.
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Word Processing Activity: Fbla Flyer 1
This site provides a student activity to allow learners the opportunity to develop and practice computer skills in a word processing program. Students are given instructions to use the computer to create a flyer.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Independent Research Project
Young scholars will use the Internet to gather key facts using a variety of online resources and present their findings in a word processed paper in APA style.
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Campbell County School District:technology Rubrics [Pdf]
This is a PDF of two four-leveled grading rubrics for use with fifth-grade students - one for a multimedia presentation and one for a word processing/desktop publishing project.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision of Word Choice [Pdf]
Helping students revise their rough drafts can be a difficult process. Make it a little easier with this 3-step lesson regarding revision of word choice.
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Teach Engineering: Students as Scientists
This curricular unit contains two lessons that let students actually do the work of scientists as they design their own experiments to answer questions they generate. In the first lesson and its associated activity, students conduct a...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Peer Revision [Pdf]
Students can help their peers with these revision sheets focused on idea development, word choice, voice and grammatical conventions.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Poems to Bug Your Reader: Develop a Poem About Invertebrates
In this lesson students create a short poem utilizing the best word choice regarding an invertebrate.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Special Place Poems
In this lesson young scholars will develop a poem while thinking about a special place. They will develop their ideas using strong word choice and figurative language. After the students have completed their ideas, they will be linked...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An Onomatopoetic Field Trip
In this instructional activity, students will develop a story incorporating onomatopoeia and strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Dice [Pdf]
Revision can be a difficult process for students. With a roll of the dice, students are reminded of the steps they can take to improve their writing. Includes templates for four types of dice that focus on ideas, organization, voice, and...
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Alex: Correspondence for the Real World
As future employees, students should be aware of the various forms of business correspondence. Students will learn how to use wizards and templates from a word processing software to create business letters. This project allows students...
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Alex: Effective Interview Techniques
The lesson will begin with a lecture on the importance of effective interview techniques. A technology-based project will be assigned for students to use the Internet to gather information and then create either a slideshow presentation,...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Math World Interactive
MathWorld Interactive "Is a FREE project where students in grades 6 to 8 from around the world work on open-ended problems." Go to the Frequently Asked Questions section for an easy introduction.
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Writing Fix: So Much Depends Upon
For this lesson students will write a descriptive short story based upon 16-word imagery poems they have previously written.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner
For this lesson, young scholars will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
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Essdack: Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers
Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers provides a variety of helpful computer activities, presentations, web sites, and resources of use to educators teaching kindergarten to 8th grade.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Details and Vocabulary: Using Content Based Vocabulary
In this lesson, students will write a descriptive paragraph regarding an animal and its habitat, or a character in a particular setting. Great cross-curricular usage of vocabulary.
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Writing Fix: Animals Not to [Verb] With
In this activity, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
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Writing Fix: Unusual Friendly Letters: Persuasive Writing Techniques
In this lesson, students will use active voice in regards to persuasion. Lesson incorporates the A R.A.F.T. strategy: role, audience, format, topic.