Computer Lessons for All Grade Levels



Computer Lessons for All Grade Levels... | |

|FIVE LESSONS FOR TEACHING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY |

|This week, Education World provides five lessons about technology. Click each of the headlines below for a complete teaching |

|resource. (Appropriate grade levels for each lesson appear in parentheses.) |

|What’s Inside My Computer? |

|Students draw a picture of what they think a computer looks like inside. Then they explore more. (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, |

|advanced) |

|Mousing Around |

|Practice using a mouse and complete a mouserobics scavenger hunt. (Grades PreK, K-2, 3-5) |

|Word Processing Can Be Lots of Font! |

|A fun poem activity helps reinforce basic word processing skills. (Grades 3-5, 6-8) |

|Finding Your Way in the World Wide Web |

|A fun grouping activity teaches about databases. Then students test kid-friendly search engines to find the best one. (Grades |

|3-5, 6-8) |

|There’s a Monster in My E-Mail! |

|In this simple collaborative e-mail project, students make new friends as they practice their drawing, writing, and computer |

|skills. (Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) |

|More Computer Lessons... |

|As Education World editors combed the Internet in search of great technology resources for teachers, we found the following 20 |

|lesson plans. Approximate grade levels for each lesson appear in parentheses. |

|Creating and Presenting Haiku With Kid Pix (Grades 3-5) |

|Students use KidPix as they develop original haikus. |

|Computers at Work (Grades 9-12) |

|Explore careers in the computer field. |

|My First PowerPoint Presentation (Grades K-2, 3-5) |

|Students create their first PowerPoint presentation. |

|Using DHTML and JavaScript to Animate a Snowman (Grades 9-12) |

|Older students learn to use DHTML and JavaScript to create animations. (of course it is prefered that you change this to |

|something more appropiate, inshaAllah) |

|A Digital Quilt (Grades 3-5) |

|Use digital photography to create a digital quilt. |

|TechKnow Genius (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) |

|Create a PowerPoint game based on TV’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. |

|Make A Great WebPage (Grades 6-8, 9-12) |

|Students learn to build a Web page. |

|Web Trails: An Online Adventure (Grades 6-8, 9-12) |

|Complete a WebQuest about exploring Iowa’s parks. |

|Primary Keyboarding Skills (Grades K-2) |

|Introduce younger students to keyboarding. |

|Use Boolean Search Terms to Shorten Web Searches (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) |

|Explore the advantages of using Boolean search terms for Internet searches. |

|True or False: A Lesson in Web Literacy (Grades 9-12) |

|Students learn how to evaluate the reliability of a Web site’s content. |

|Evaluating Web Sites for Bias (Grades 6-8, 9-12) |

|Students evaluate a Web site about Dr. Martin Luther King for bias. |

|Jo Cool or Jo Fool? (Grades 6-8, 9-12) |

|This "online game about savvy surfing" from the Media Awareness Network includes an extensive Teacher Guide. |

|Rules in Cyberspace (Grades 3-5, 6-8) |

|This lesson plan on hacking and copyright violations includes links to cyberethics sites for kids. |

|M&Ms (Grades K-6) |

|Students create a spreadsheet showing how many M&Ms of each color are in a single bag. |

|WYSIWYG (Grades 6-12) |

|How do you know if a Web site is legitimate? |

|Grandmother and Me (Grades1-9) |

|Students from around the world participate in an e-mail project in which they tell the word for grandmother in their language, |

|describe things they do (or did) with their grandmothers, and write a collaborative story about grandmothers. |

|Grade 6 Cool Sites (Grades 3-9) |

|Visit several Web sites and write a critique of the most interesting site. |

|Geo Game (Grades 3-8) |

|Students participate in a collaborative online project in which they help create and solve geography puzzles. |

|Spreadsheet Lesson Plan (Grades 3-5, 6-8) |

|Learn how to use a spreadsheet to enter data and perform calculations. |

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