Subject(s): Computers & Internet Grades(s): Junior High/High School
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Applications:
- This MS Word lesson creates birthday party invitations
- This one is on AutoCAD and technical drafting
- In this idea students design a house with a drawing program such as PhotoDeluxe, Paint, etc.
- In this 6-lesson unit, students solve linear equations using computer graphing calculator software
- An American quilt is made here from the cultural magazine covers students created with Desktop Publishing
- Here are some PowerPoint lessons:
- This is a lesson to teach students how to use the Microsoft PowerPoint program
- Here’s a lesson on creating PowerPointpresentations
- Students research colleges and make a PowerPoint presentation to meet rubric guidelines in this lesson
- This is a beginning-of-school self-introductory PowerPoint presentation idea
- In this well-developed lesson, students create and present their original research in written report, PowerPoint, and GarageBand formats
- These are Photo Story 3 and Movie Makerlessons:
- Here students study multimedia persuasion techniques and use them to create Photo Story 3 advertisements
- This is good tutorial on using Photo Story 3 to create memorable multimedia presentations, or even scholarship applications
- Students develop a story using Photo Story 3 here to demonstrate the application of multimedia in the classroom
- Students acquaint themselves with the Photo Story 3 medium here while making simple 4-picture stories
- Here students learn Photo Story 3 basics while making their own personal photo story
- This multimedia lesson teaches how to use key images and music to convey a theme in a personal photo story
- Here students visually depict the duties of their career of choice using copyright safe images and Photo Story 3 software
- Students gain practical experience using Photo Story 3 here by creating a digital campus tour for visitors
- Here students create a 30-second photo story commercial for their personal hero
- Students present college and career exploration information here using Movie Maker software
- These are Excel, Spreadsheet and Graphing lessons:
- This lesson is on graphing with Microsoft Excel
- Here’s a lesson on using a spreadsheet to budget room expenses
- Here’s an idea for using Excel to calculate students’ community service time
- In this lesson, students develop a family budget using a spreadsheet
- Here students use Excel worksheets to create a personal budget
Electronic Communications (E-Mail):
- This is a lesson on e-mail that makes use of the free Hotmail accounts
- Simply called “Emoticons,” this lesson addresses the smiley faces in email such as :)
General:
- These are great hardware, software, and internet worksheet and center activities
- This PowerPoint assignment to digitally document the assistive technology available in school engages students with their classmates with disabilities
Internet:
- Here is an interesting idea for a Web Wall Bulletin Board where students interactively share website ideas
- This is a fun lesson on web page design using the free Netscape Composer tool
- This is a scavenger hunt for the movie Star Wars and helps develop internet research skills
- Online safety is discussed in this lesson for teens
- Here is a good lesson plan for creating a website
- In this internet lesson, students write responsibly about local businesses on wikicommunity.org
- WordArt and ClipArt are used in this get-acquainted filler activity idea
- This is an internet search engine and media center scavenger hunt
- This Google Docs® tutorial teaches students how to create, store, and share documents with a group online without creating multiple copies
Technical:
- This idea involves scanning and/or using digital cameras to observe tree bark
- An activity using digital cameras to capture shapes in nature
- This is an advanced lesson plan on undertanding SQL databases
- Here’s a fun Jeopardy-style game idea for learning computer terms
Typing:
- This very fun idea is called Musical Computers (Chairs)
- Here’s a lesson plan for Creating Posters with Microsoft Word that works on Formatting and Grammar
Other / Multiple Topics:
- This plan is for acquiring study skills and using Internet resources
- Here is an elaborate idea for creating an interactive media community service project involving the creation of a logo, letterhead, brochure, newspaper ad, and PowerPoint presentation about a local cause and its solution
- This is an excellent webquest on preventing and dealing with street teen gangs
- This is a lesson on surviving a job interview
- In this space WebQuest, Earth “investigators” access several types of software and on-line media to create an Interplanetary Movement Passport PowerPoint
- Students research how technological changes impact employment opportunities in the computer field in this Photo Story 3 lesson
- Here students demonstrate the importance of ergonomics in the workplace by creating a digital photo story
- These fun online research project ideas are useful during transition periods or at the end of the school year
Art Connections:
- Photography is the subject of this lesson involving Dorthea Lange’s Migrant Mother
- Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson
Language Arts Connections:
- The complete unit below is on different types of Technical Writing:
- This is the introduction to the Technical Writing Unit
- The first lesson plan is on Correspondence
- Part two is on Writing Structure
- This lesson gets into Graphics Elements
- Lesson four is on Writing Memos
- Business Letters are the subject of lesson five
- This one is on Letter Formats and Proofreading
- Lesson seven is on Report Writing
- This part continues with Report Writing
- The last instructional lesson is on Persuasive Writing
- We finish the unit with this Assessment Plan
- This lesson plan focuses on Integrating the studying of Shakespeare and the Internet
- Here’s a good idea for making Book Reports using Microsoft PowerPoint
- Students create a newspaper on computers in this lesson on typing, writing, and reporting
- A good lesson that involves making a poetry notebook
- Turn ideas into a story with this fundraising project
- Here is a good beginning-of-the-year lesson for introducing essay structure
- Students create a travel brochure to an imaginary place in this lesson
- In this lesson, students research Edgar Allen Poe, play a fact game, and write a biographical essay
- Students create their own villains/antagonists in this in-depth character analysis lesson
- Here students begin writing a story on one computer, then shift seats to add on to or finish their neighbor’s story
- Students find out how to say “Thank you” in other languages in this internet search idea
- ESL students write and publish a five-paragraph autobiography in this lesso>
- Here students research a key American poet’s relationship to an American literary era
- This three-lesson Othello Unit utilizes multiple technologies
- This is an excellent 12-day lesson on conducting research for expository papers
- In this writing lesson, students use multiple sources to expand their original “How I Will Change the World” essay
- This is a high-tech AP Modern Fine Arts and Literature Unit on Igor Stravinsky
- Students create a “tableau vivant” Photo Story 3 presentation of a short story here
- Here students use Photo Story 3 to illustrate a personally significant poem with their own photos
- A Photo Story 3 personal narrative is created here
- In this lesson, students interpret a scene from Hamlet and make a YouTube movie
- The internet, TV webcasts and discussion boards are used here while students solve a “48 Hours” TV show crime
- In this Photo Story 3/iMovie lesson, students manipulate photos and music to create distinct and different tones or moods
- A Kidspiration worksheet helps students chart a main idea and three supporting story details here
- This multimedia unit research unit reports the facts about environmental injustices (LA):
- Students produce a multimedia fairy tale photo story here told from a different perspective
- Students create a topic specific newspaper here using a template
- Be popular! Assign this Christmas song parody idea!
- Here students prepare a PowerPoint on a playwright and present it dressed as a play’s character
- This final project for intermediate Spanish involves using technology to research and present a famous “Spanish Idol”
- Students describe five ways a book character is just like them in this well-developed Photo Story 3 presentation
- Inspiration software and a Smartboard are used in this lesson comparing/contrasting Elsie Wiesel’s “Night” and the Holocaust movie “Life is Beautiful”
- This digital storytelling lesson encourages students to use electronic media to tell a personal story in a creative way
Math Connections:
- This one involves computer spreadsheets and probability
- This is a fun idea for an online lesson on leap year
- This webquest and worksheet introduces fractals
- A daily spreadsheet is involved in this “Stock Market Game”
- A MS Excel pie chart is created in this budgeting lesson
- An Excel spreadsheet is used in this rational and irrational number lesson
- Here students illustrate real world order of operations problems using PowerPoint and Photo Story
- Students document how to find arc length and the area of a sector in a photo story in this lesson
- Here students create a “Let’s Get Cooking” photo story showing how they used fractions, decimals, measurements and estimation to create a treat
- Here groups apply quadratic rules to real-world parabolas, then organize the information into a short video presentation
Music Connections:
- This lesson is on Instruments, Sounds, and Compositions and uses the Internet
- This lesson uses an interactive website to teach key signatures to AP Music theory students
- This lesson uses an interactive website to teach note identification to beginning band students
- It’s “Peanut Butter Jelly Rhythm Time” up in here…
Physical Education / Health Connections:
- Lifetime healthy choice topics are presented in this research project
- This lesson incorporates weight training, fitness, nutrition and technology
- In this LearntobeHealth.org activity, teens find out what stress is, how it effects the body, why it happens and steps to cope with it
- Students apply the dynamic heart rate changes that take place during exercise here in a PowerPoint presentation using Excel
Science Connections:
- A science lesson on weather on the Internet
- This science lesson plan is called “Looking For Newton” and integrates the Internet
- This plan is for preparation for a science fair
- This lesson focuses on building hazardous waste awareness
- This technology lesson looks at inventions and discovery and makes use of PowerPoint
- Find out here how healthy fast food really is
- This blood bank research investigation idea lets science/health students apply classroom knowledge in a real world context
- Here students develop a digital ecosystem PowerPoint photo album
- Learners create a PowerPoint slide show here on a specific periodic table element
- This lesson in computer animation enables students to obtain a deeper understanding of chemical elements or other subjects
- Here students use PowerPoint or Inspiration software to create a web with pictures summarizing the process of photosynthesis
- This hydraulic water cycle lesson integrates technology, contains hands-activities, and is appropriate for special education students
- Groups create a Photo Story 3 presentation about a researched biome here
- Student groups use multiple resources to compare two cities with similar climates and weather patterns, telling why their temperatures are so similar in a media-rich presentation and report
- ESL students create a recycling brochure in this SIOP lesson
- Here students collaborate via the internet to construct a mixed media presentation on a researched human body organ system
- Here students armed with Excel spreadsheets calculate the biotic potential of a tomato plant “taking over the world”
- Here teams research and construct different solar ovens and then test parameters with computerized probeware
- Google Maps and Google Earth are used here to study plate tectonics and the corresponding locations of earthquakes and volcanoes
- This great real-world and virtual plant transpiration lab also uses spreadsheets and e-journals mailed to the teacher
- Students research the Mexican Grey Wolf re-introduction dilemma here and create a persuasive PowerPoint solution
- Students sort spreadsheet data in this lab to uncover the relationships between latitude, angle of the sun, elevation, and solar energy
Social Studies Connections:
- Here’s a well developed Internet Project for teaching about the Civil Rights Movement
- This fun Scavenger Hunt idea takes place on a computer (with any good reference CD-ROM)
- This idea involves Research, Writing and creating a Time Capsule covering the 20th Century
- A fun, well-developed unit on Garbage and Recycling that makes use of the Internet:
- Here’s the Project’s Lesson Outline and additional materials
- Here’s Lesson 1 which involves activities at the Recycle City website
- This one involves a scavenger hunt at Recycle City
- This part is very interesting – determine the efficiency of your lunch packaging
- Lesson 4 is on the 3 R’s of Recycling
- Lesson 5 is on landfills and how they work, involves creating a simulated landfill
- The last lesson plan involves “what you can do” – developing possible action plans
- This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
- A Family Tree with Photos created on computers using scanners is the outcome of this lesson idea
- Here’s an idea for using a Computer to Graph the Litter in school
- Students Record and Mix their own World War II Radio Broadcast in this Social Studies / Technology lesson
- Here’s a Civil War “Virtual Fieldtrip” that also involves a Hyperstudio presentation
- Students can learn about the presidents with this great technology lesson
- Teach about different countries and cultures with this must-have compilation of creative ideas
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- This multi-discipline lesson has students discover the geography and cultural history of an area while creating a travel journal on a budget
- Students research, create, and present a PowerPoint of the dance of a country and how it relates to its culture
- In the lesson, students apply social studies & math skills to plan a field trip
- This is an outstanding differentiated learning project about Ancient Egypt
- Explore the Roaring Twenties with this lecture, some research and role playing
- This is a lesson on political cartoons
- In this lesson, students experience Tiananmen Square
- In this class research lesson, students find historical quotes matching their alphabet letter
- Here students create a PowerPoint on the history, art, literature, and culture of a Spanish-speaking country
- This Civil War lesson includes great details on setting up group PowerPoint presentations
- This is a WebQuest on the American Revolution
- This is an African-American history research scavenger hunt
- This “Youth and the Civil Rights Movement” research project uses Kuhlthau’s ISP and subject directories
- Venn diagrams are completed here comparing a Hispanic quinceañera with other rites of passage
- Students communicate electronically here while photographing local geography for a PowerPoint presentation
- This webquest uses different search engines to research pro and con opinions on changing Native American school mascot names
- Here students create a state history PowerPoint presentation
- Students create a Photo Story 3 biography of Abraham Lincoln here focusing on the Civil War years
- Your students will love exploring the USA and the world with this cartogram lesson from SHOW®
- This lesson analyzes African American folktales, songs, and hymns during the time of slavery with the help of Inspiration software
- Students create an Inspiration software diagram here linking major processes (government decisions/environmental events) with their impact on different world regions
- This technology-based unit on the institution of slavery incorporates PowerPoint, a WebQuest, and Inspiration software:
- This PowerPoint lecture is titled “On the Backs of Slaves”
- This is an “Underground Railroad” WebQuest
- In “Path of a Slave,” students make PowerPoint presentations mapping the journey of a slave from Africa to the Thirteen Colonies.
- In “Inspiration to Map Slavery,” students chart the process of slavery including the Triangle Trade Route, regions of slavery, reasons, consequences, etc. using Inspiration software
- This is Photo Story 3 research project about space exploration during the Cold War
- Students create a Civil War digital diorama here using Photo Story 3 and PowerPoint
- Groups solve their created town’s biggest problem here with a POOCH diagram and a multimedia presentation
- Groups make PowerPoint presentations in this unit on ancient Greece and its cultural contributions to the modern world
- Here students discuss Massachusetts Bay Colony source material about the trial of Ann Hutchinson on a class website discussion board
- “Voices Through Time: Character and Characteristics of the Kansas-Missouri Border War” provides opportunities for AP students to “taste the full menu” of a highly complex issue involving numerous personalities
- After choosing from this list of Vietnam War topics, students conduct their own research and write a paper on the subject
- Students map, interpret and analyze the growth of Islam here with Google Earth applications and a discussion of GIS in map analysis
- Students develop a basic understanding of Buddhism and its traditions in this lesson by compiling online research into a narrated photo story
- Here students create a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation illustrating the Bill of Rights amendments in their unique personal style
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