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Do Spiders Live on the World Wide Web?
Explore the parts of a computer and discover that words have multiple meanings. Your class will verbally identify the parts of a computer including the mouse, screen, window, net, and keyboard. They will also complete a KWL chart,...
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Technology: Computer Basics
Students access a variety of resources on the Internet related to basic computer operations and parts. They examine the parts of a computer and the history of computers, view timelines, play games, and read tips on Internet safety.
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Video Reporters - "Get Ready to Use Your Computer"
Young scholars use technology to produce a student-produced video that shows other students how to adjust keyboard, monitor, chair, and posture for safe and healthy usage of computer. It also demonstrates how to ask for help...
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Techno PC: Computer Lessons for Elementary Students
Students explore computer science by participating in mini activities. In this graphic design lesson, identify the different components on a personal computer and define their purpose. Students utilize Microsoft Paint to create a digital...
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Pronoun Party
In this parts of speech instructional activity, students replace the nouns in 10 sentences with the appropriate pronouns from the word bank. Students also write 2 original sentences using pronouns appropriately.
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Hunt the Fact Monster
In this Fact Monster search engine learning exercise, students access the Internet to find the answers to five questions with multiple choice answers.
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Kids & Computing Don't Crash Your Body With Your Computer
Students listen to two lectures about being healthy and including movement in their day. Students are encouraged to get away from the computers and move their bodies. Careful adjusting of the computer workstation is emphasized to prevent...
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Technobasics
Students are introduced to computer rules, hardware, mouse skills, and keyboarding. In this computer basics lesson, students apply their computer skills to paint using the Kid Deluxe 4. Students also classify hardware as input...
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Musical Sounds
Students investigate music appreciation by completing worksheets. For this musical arts lesson, students complete worksheets in which they identify different musical instruments, the sounds they make and the family of instruments they...
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Munchy Math
Students manipulate computer mouse to place the cursor on a numeral to match the correct number of foods, using Kidspiration.
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How Does it End?
Students listen to the first part of a story, use drawing software, such as Paint or AppleWorks, to draw, or write and draw, their own imaginary endings to the story. They practice their mouse and computer navigation skills. They share...
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Estimation
Students complete computer activities about estimating if items are more or less than a given amount. In this estimation lesson plan, students also estimate measurements around the classroom.
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Hickory Dickory Dock
Students use the Hickory Dickory Dock nursery rhyme to learn about rhyme, telling time, and preposition use. In this nursery rhyme lesson, students read the nursery rhyme daily and complete a Mother Goose quiz. Students sequence the...
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"Painting" More Expressive Language
Students listen to the book Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me, by Eric Carle. They create an illustration using a computer paint program. Learners type one sentence describing their picture into a text box in the paint program to...
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Systems
In this systems activity, students read a selection about systems in science and graphic organizer about the forest system. Finally, they answer 4 short answer questions.
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Balanced Diet
Second graders investigate the concept of a balanced diet and how the food pyramid is organized. They conduct research using the links included in the instructional activity. They differentiate the parts of the pyramid while looking at...
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Immigration Explorations, Part I
Students visit John Schick's Virtual Ellis Island Museum created by students in his classroom in order to develop criteria for their own research.
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Spelling Activity
Sometimes you can add an s to a word to form its plural. Sometimes you can't. Help your class learn how to pluralize irregular words like calf, woman, and half. After, have them study the prefixes un, de, pre, dis, and re in the colorful...
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Describing Things (Adjectives)
Describing things using adjectives is the focus of this lesson designed for language learners. Class members play games, draw pictures, and sing songs, adding adjectives to describe animals.
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Understanding Percent
For this understanding percent worksheet, students fill in the missing parts for examples of number of colored parts and total numbers and use them to complete charts and rewrite sentences using the exact amount of things and percents....
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Language Arts: Creating Multimedia Reports
Ninth graders create multimedia presentations about their backgrounds and family heritage. They discover how to use the necessary computer skills and practice them in pairs. Students present their projects to the class and have a general...
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Aviation
Sixth graders examine the main parts of an airplane and explain their functions. They inquire about a flight simulator. They study a flight plan and what happens when they move the flight controls. They view and keep a logbook.
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Creating a Timeline and Scanning a Photograph
Students create a timeline and scan pictures for it. In this timeline instructional activity, students use an interview of a family member to create a timeline for that person. They scan photographs to add to their computer made...
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Eeeee -- It's a Mouse!
Students recognize the long "e" sound, and identify it in spoken words by learning letter symbols. Students participate in role playing and tongue twisters to learn the long "e" sound. By learning phenomes, students are taking the...