Word Processing and Internet Planet Report

Congratulations, your students have just been hired as zookeepers at the San Diego Zoo! Their first job is to help set up new exhibits by researching and giving a presentation about different animals. Provide each young researcher with...

Inspire scholars to do their part for planet Earth with a read-aloud of Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, and variety of activities designed to boost the environmental activist in us all. Activities include writing poems about the Earth, sorting...

A set of instructions and a 100-point grading rubric have been designed for writing lab reports. Appropriate for middle schoolers, this lays out what to include for each of the six steps in the scientific method: title, hypothesis,...

What's bigger than an asteroid but smaller than a planet? A dwarf planet! Take a peak into the five dwarf planets—Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres—with a captivating video hosted by Jenni and Squeaks.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars make up the solar system's inner planets. How are the weather patterns on these planets different from Earth's? This is the focus of a video that explains weather conditions on the inner planets.

Nothing is more intriguing than learning about outer space. Pupils will conduct Internet research taking notes using the 4-square method, then use their notes to write a report. They will go through the entire writing process from...

Explore the animal kingdom from the safety your classroom. Intended to build on previous learning about ecosystems, this lesson plan involves students working in pairs to research their favorite animal and present their findings to the...

Students combine word processing activities with internet activities to explore endangered animals while picking up computer skills.

Have your young scientists explore a single element of the water cycle and write a report to explain findings. Your class can take their writing through all the steps of the writing process and publish it using a Web-based multimedia...

Students are assessed on their use of the Microsoft Word program. In this word processing assessment, students are asked to complete a list of tasks in the Microsoft Word program to determine their knowledge of the program.