Curated OER
Biographies in a Box Come to Life
Students use the Internet to research someone's biography.
Curated OER
The Day Before
Students explore the impact a major event has on people and on history as their team selects an event and publishes their own magazine to recreate the times in which such an event occurred.
Curated OER
Playground Games
Students conduct research on the internet in order to find playground games that can be played. The size of the ground area determines the kind of game that can be played. There are a variety of websites included in the lesson.
Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Collaborative Creative Writing
Students collaborate to create a story together at the same time using Google shared document.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Many Letters?
Can you remember all of your ABC's? Computers need to "remember" letters too. Every time we use a computer to write a story, the computer needs to "remember" the letters in the story by saving them to the computer's memory as a file. In...
Code.org
Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 4
Middle level learners delve deeper into computer programming topics to identify flexible solutions to more complex problems, to ultimately create games and stories they can share.
Code.org
Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 2
For readers with no prior computer programming experience, students create programs to solve problems and create interactive games or stories to share with others.
Code.org
Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 3
During game and story creation, intermediate students delve deeper into programming topics to identify flexible solutions to more complex problems.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Letter to the Mayor [Pdf]
"Letter to the Mayor" is a one page, nonfiction letter written to the mayor by 2000 school children in Chicago. In the letters, the children addressed issues such as trash, gangs, computers, playgrounds, and safer streets. After reading...