| Title: | Authoring & Illustrating a Children's Book |
| Grades & Subjects: | 5-8 Language Arts (with K-2 connection) |
| Objectives: | storytelling themes, creative writing, drawing/photography, PowerPoint, school citizenship |
| Description: | Familiarize students with themes
of children's stories/literature by
reading some K-2 books. Have students work in pairs to develop
their
own children's story plot. Write text and illustrate with student
drawings, student pictures, or Internet pictures. Input text and
illustrations into PowerPoint. Print out books. Read books
to younger
classes (K-2) in "reading buddy" like setting. |
| Technology needed: | PowerPoint, flatbed scanner (optional), digital cameras (optional) |
| Implementation Comments: | Lesson time could range from a few hours (spread over a few days) on up, depending on needs/desires. |
| Author/Contact: | Seth Mayotte, parent on tech.
committee, seth@mayotte.us |
| Date: | 11/2005 |
| Title: | Visualize your investment grow with Excel |
| Grades & Subjects: | 6-8 Mathematics |
| Objectives: | understand compound interest,
visually see it working, Excel formulas |
| Description: | Teach students concept of
compounding interest. In Excel, walk students through creating
columns for: years, deposit, interest rate, balance. Show them
how to create formula for balance: (last year's balance) + (deposit) +
(last year's balance * interest rate / 100). Have them insert
numbers and try it out. Have a worksheet of problems to answer
(i.e., if you save $10/month or $120/year at a 5% rate, how long will
it take to have saved $1000?; what if the rate is only 4%?; how long
will it take to double an investment?; etc.) |
| Technology needed: | Excel |
| Implementation Comments: | With minor modifications, this can be used to calculate loan payoffs and such. |
| Author/Contact: | Seth Mayotte, parent on tech.
committee, seth@mayotte.us |
| Date: | 11/2005 |
| Title: | Use Paint to draw pictures |
| Grades & Subjects: | K-2 |
| Objectives: | mouse practice, color pallets |
| Description: | Have students paint a picture on
the computer using MS Paint. |
| Technology needed: | Paint (included with Windows) |
| Implementation Comments: | |
| Author/Contact: | Seth Mayotte, parent on tech.
committee, seth@mayotte.us |
| Date: | 11/2005 |
| Title: | Typing & Spelling Challenge |
| Grades & Subjects: | 1-4 Language Arts |
| Objectives: | practice typing and spelling |
| Description: | Pair up students. Have one
dictate a letter to the second (addressed to anyone they choose).
The second can type it into Wordpad (no spellcheck). They can
then proofread it and check spelling together. Maybe make a
contest out of who can make the fewest errors in the longest
text. Teacher can copy and paste text into Word to show them
spelling errors they missed. |
| Technology needed: | WordPad (included in Windows),
Word (optional) |
| Implementation Comments: | |
| Author/Contact: | Seth Mayotte, parent on tech.
committee, seth@mayotte.us |
| Date: | 11/2005 |
| Title: | Learning from PBS Kids website |
| Grades & Subjects: | K-2 |
| Objectives: | practice with mouse, basics of
Internet |
| Description: | www.pbskids.org games, stories, music, coloring - all related to learning themes and popular kids TV shows (Arthur, Clifford, etc.) |
| Technology needed: | Web browser (included with
Windows) |
| Implementation Comments: | |
| Author/Contact: | Seth Mayotte, parent on tech.
committee, seth@mayotte.us |
| Date: | 11/2005 |
| Title: | Character Hunt |
| Grades & Subjects: | K-2 |
| Objectives: | practice with mouse, learn about
enhanced character set |
| Description: | Have students use Character Map
to search for list of characters (i.e., © ¢ Ø ).
Maybe a scavenger-hunt style with prizes or rewards. |
| Technology needed: | Character Map (included with
Windows) |
| Implementation Comments: | |
| Author/Contact: | Seth Mayotte, parent on tech.
committee, seth@mayotte.us |
| Date: | 11/2005 |
| Title: | What Buildings tell us about
Society |
| Grades & Subjects: | 6-8 Social Studies |
| Objectives: | digital camera basics,
architectural reflections of societies priorities, sociological research
methods |
| Description: | Have students take home cameras
and take pictures of the new houses/building in their neighborhoods and
the old houses/buildings. Bring camera back to school; upload
pictures to teacher's computer; present with projector; discuss.
Talk about what differences students see and try to explain
differences. Probe for things like: 3-car garages on new houses
and front porches on old houses. Try to illicit explanations. |
| Technology needed: | classroom set of inexpensive
digital cameras, projector |
| Implementation Comments: | |
| Author/Contact: | Seth Mayotte, parent on tech.
committee, seth@mayotte.us |
| Date: | 11/2005 |
| Title: | Identify Species in Back Yard |
| Grades & Subjects: | 6-8 Science |
| Objectives: | species classification, digital
camera basics, nature/community preservation |
| Description: | Take a field trip to the
school's back yard. Have students take pictures of trees, plants,
animals, leaves, stones, etc. that they do not know. Print out
1-3 pictures per student. Have students use encyclopedias or
Internet to research the classification of their pictured natural item. |
| Technology needed: | inexpensive digital cameras;
printer; Internet (optional) |
| Implementation Comments: | |
| Author/Contact: | Seth Mayotte, parent on tech.
committee, seth@mayotte.us |
| Date: | 11/2005 |