Technology: Computer Basics

All of the people in your class would agree that life would be different without the invention of the telephone! Study Alexander Graham Bell's most famous and influential invention through the primary source document of his sketch of the...

Students explore computer skills in the current job market by completing worksheet activities. In this modern technology lesson, students identify the importance of being technology savvy when it comes to running a business or embarking...

Deepen understanding of email correspondence. Begin by tapping into prior experience with email and word processing. Learners then send emails to one another, practicing attaching images and copying and pasting their work into a word...

In this technology activity, learners examine the parts of a computer by studying the 9 pictures. Students use the word bank to match the name of the computer part to the picture.

Students use word processing on a computer. In this computer literacy lesson students practice in the computer lab using Microsoft Works to create a text document. The students use a tongue twister to practice font features, etc.

Help your young writers develop their persuasive writing techniques in this New York Times lesson. They investigate objections to computer education, and develop their own outline for a computer lesson that would normally be taught in a...

Students create an illustration of what they would wear in the snow after listening to the book "The Jacket I Wear in the Snow." They answer discussion questions, view drawings on the teacher's Paint website, and draw a picture using...

The kids of Roxboro use the Internet to build their computer skills. Your class can do research on the community they live in to help them type, toggle between two windows, use a search engine, and use Microsoft Word. This is first and...

Young writers identify and generate words using the strategies of phonics on the Making Words computer program. Words are typed instead of having to use tiles or paper. Extension activities such as playing the memory game, drawing...