Teacher Resources

Class links

1.)Identify basic parts of various technology systems.
Computer Parts- Input & Output Devices http://www.abcya.com/input_output.htm
Find the Technology- Computer Vocabulary http://www.abcya.com/computer_vocabulary.htm

2.) Identify applications and operations of various technology systems.

PowerPoint Resources
Technology Buzzwords for Kids http://www.tekmom.com/buzzwords/
Organizing A Computer Folder
In this activity, you will open and view a presentation. Then you will complete the last slide in the presentation and view the presentation as a slide show.
As students click on a letter, this site takes them to a list of computer terms and a brief definition of each term.
This interactive game allows students to click on common web buttons and learn about their functions.
This site will help students learn the keys on the keyboard.
Connect the dots to make a picture.
This site provides a graphic image of the inside of a computer. By clicking on different parts, the user receives and explanation of their functions.
Use your mouse just like you do with an etch-a-sketch.
3.)Demonstrate correct posture and finger placement while using a technology system.
Provides guidelines for proper positioning at the computer.
Imagine that your keyboard fell apart and you had to put all the keys back in their correct places! Now is your chance to practice! Your job is to put a keyboard back together. You can click and drag letters to their correct places. Only the letters in the right spots will stay! Choose the keyboard design you like below and click on it to begin.
This site will help students learn the keys on the keyboard.
This is a great animated site which shows students how to place fingers on the appropriate keys on the keyboard and gives them practice typing with correct finger placement.
This web page provides an image, checklists, and tips for providing a user-friendly workstation.
Provides guidelines for proper positioning at the computer.
At least 70 percent of America's 30 million elementary school students use computers. As a result of this increased usage, doctors of chiropractic are treating more young patients suffering from the effects of working at computer station that are either designed for adults or poorly designed for children. Many children are already suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome and chronic pain in the hands, back, neck and shoulders. These are harmful physical effects that can last a life-time.
Computer Ergonomics for Elementary School Students http://orosha.org/cergos/
Computer Ergonomics is about things that you can do to make working on a computer more comfortable and better for your body, for example, wearing a bike helmet when riding a bike and a seatbelt when riding in a car are two simple things that you do to be safe. The Computer Ergonomics for Elementary School Students (CergoS) Web site will show you some simple and affordable ways to make sure that your body is safe and comfortable while using a computer.
This site provides the four basic steps to Setting Up Your Computer Workstation
School Ergonomics Programs: Guidelines for Parents http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/MBergo/intro.html
With the number of computers in classrooms increasing every day, many schools are beginning to institute ergonomics programs to show students, teachers, and parents how to reduce the risks of computer-related injuries.
Learn to type online with these easy games.
School Ergonomics Programs: Guidelines for Parents http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/MBergo/intro.html
With the number of computers in classrooms increasing every day, many schools are beginning to institute ergonomics programs to show students, teachers, and parents how to reduce the risks of computer-related injuries.
4.)Identify safe use of technology systems and applications.
This site has downloadable resources to print out for the classroom as well as links to websites for kids regarding Internet safety.
Get Your Web License http://pbskids.org/license/
Take this "Rules of the Road" test to earn your official PBS Kids Web license!
Yahoo Kids Study Zone http://kids.yahoo.com/learn
This site has a directory section for students to search in different subject areas. Also, it has a great section called "Today on the Web" which lists topics students can click on to take them to a list of links related to that specific topic.
Cyberethics for Teachers - Lesson plan http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/lessonplan1.htm
Lesson resources for teaching students cyberethics.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
A website with a variety of resources on cyberbullying for teachers, students and parents.
Reference: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Thesaurihttp://www.kidsolr.com/reference/
Numerous links to references in specific content areas.
Educational resource from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Discusses various Internet safety topics.
The Center for Innovation inn Engineering and Science Education http://www.ciese.org/currichome.html
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet.
The OzProjects website assists you to find suitable online curriculum projects and provides access to a host of resources to support your involvement. If you are new to online projects, you may like to start in the Support section. Search and browse the range of online projects in the project registry. Find a project of interest, visit the project's website and contact the project coordinator to begin your involvement. Add your own projects to the OzProjects registry for others to become involved. You can also access online tools, the latest online project news and use the calendar to see what online events are coming up.

Project-based learning is a terrific way to link your curriculum with real world events and applications of concepts that your students are learning. These resources will inform you about project based learning, link you to projects on the Web, and help you and your students to design your own curriculum-based multimedia projects.
5.) Practice responsible use of technology systems and applications


Find the Technology- Computer Vocabulary http://www.abcya.com/computer_vocabulary.htm
This interactive activity helps students to learn computer vocabulary. Kids look through the messy room and click on the computer and technology-related items to match the word bank.
Copyright and Plagiarism Rules for Teachers http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html
This site has links to resources for teachers to use as background for teaching children about cyber plagiarism and copyright law.
How to sit at a computer
This site provides the four basic steps to Setting Up Your Computer Workstation
School Ergonomics Programs: Guidelines for Parents http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/MBergo/intro.html
With the number of computers in classrooms increasing every day, many schools are beginning to institute ergonomics programs to show students, teachers, and parents how to reduce the risks of computer-related injuries.
Cyberethics for Teachers - Lesson plan http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/lessonplan1.htm
Lesson resources for teaching students cyberethics.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
Educational resource from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Discusses various Internet safety topics.
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally-supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.
6.)Identify uses of technology systems in daily living
Find the Technology- Computer Vocabulary http://www.abcya.com/computer_vocabulary.htm
This interactive activity helps students to learn computer vocabulary. Kids look through the messy room and click on the computer and technology-related items to match the word bank.
This page can guide a lesson on the basic parts of the computer and teach the concepts of "input" and "output".
Web Search for Kids by Librarians http://www.kidsclick.org/
This site is a cataloged subject area search engine for kids.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
The Center for Innovation inn Engineering and Science Education http://www.ciese.org/currichome.html
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet.
Provides links to WebQuests adapted for Alabama Course of Study content standards by Mobile County teachers.
7.)Use digital tools to access and retrieve information.
The Educator's Reference Desk http://www.eduref.org/
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology (ERIC/IT) and the AskERIC Service have been discontinued as a result of reorganization of the ERIC program by the United States Department of Education. Most of the resources previously found on the ERIC/IT and AskERIC websites may be found at The Educator’s Reference Desk. The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
Internet 4 Classrooms http://internet4classrooms.com/
Great resource for teachers from PreK-12th grade. This site is a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials.
This is a kid-friendly search engine including online games and activities.
This search engine is great for younger children. It includes games, activities, and printables.
What They Left Behind: Early Multi-National Influences in the United States http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=336
The lessons in this unit are designed to help your students make connections between European voyages of discovery, colonial spheres of influence, and various aspects of American culture.
Web Search for Kids by Librarians http://www.kidsclick.org/
This site is a cataloged subject area search engine for kids.
Yahoo Kids Study Zone http://kids.yahoo.com/learn
This site has a directory section for students to search in different subject areas. Also, it has a great section called "Today on the Web" which lists topics students can click on to take them to a list of links related to that specific topic.
Boston Public Library-Internet Dictionary for Kids http://www.bpl.org/kids/Glossary.htm
Age-appropriate definitions of computer terms.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
Reference: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Thesaurus http://www.kidsolr.com/reference/
Numerous links to references in specific content areas.
Weather Resources for Students http://www.wxdude.com/kidres.html
Nick's favorite resource materials for students to learn more about weather and other sciences.
The Center for Innovation inn Engineering and Science Education
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet.
The OzProjects website assists you to find suitable online curriculum projects and provides access to a host of resources to support your involvement. If you are new to online projects, you may like to start in the Support section. Search and browse the range of online projects in the project registry. Find a project of interest, visit the project's website and contact the project coordinator to begin your involvement. Add your own projects to the OzProjects registry for others to become involved. You can also access online tools, the latest online project news and use the calendar to see what online events are coming up.
TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too!
Project-based learning is a terrific way to link your curriculum with real world events and applications of concepts that your students are learning. These resources will inform you about project based learning, link you to projects on the Web, and help you and your students to design your own curriculum-based multimedia projects.
Provides links to WebQuests adapted for Alabama Course of Study content standards by Mobile County teachers.
American Library Association offers links to educational resources for teachers and students on all topics.
Enables you to search 47 million pages in real time
Online energy education resources include energy activities for kids and materials to help classroom teachers teach about energy.
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally-supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.
8.)Use digital environments to exchange ideas with individuals or groups.
This perhaps goes without saying, but one of the best uses of computers in a writing class is perhaps the most common activity that writers use computer for in the first place: writing. For many students, it will represent a "unique activity" to actually compose at the keyboard, no pen or paper in sight.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
Weather Resources for Students http://www.wxdude.com/kidres.html
Nick's favorite resource materials for students to learn more about weather and other sciences.
Find rich, hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time. These colorful, creative curriculum ideas are perfect for young children.
The Center for Innovation inn Engineering and Science Education http://www.ciese.org/currichome.html
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet.
The OzProjects website assists you to find suitable online curriculum projects and provides access to a host of resources to support your involvement. If you are new to online projects, you may like to start in the Support section. Search and browse the range of online projects in the project registry. Find a project of interest, visit the project's website and contact the project coordinator to begin your involvement. Add your own projects to the OzProjects registry for others to become involved. You can also access online tools, the latest online project news and use the calendar to see what online events are coming up.
Project-based learning is a terrific way to link your curriculum with real world events and applications of concepts that your students are learning. These resources will inform you about project based learning, link you to projects on the Web, and help you and your students to design your own curriculum-based multimedia projects.
Provides links to WebQuests adapted for Alabama Course of Study content standards by Mobile County teachers.
American Library Association offers links to educational resources for teachers and students on all topics.
Enables you to search 47 million pages in real time
9.)Identify digital tools used for problem solving
Read the sentences about the weather. Then cut out the weather symbols below. Paste each symbol into the correct box.
This perhaps goes without saying, but one of the best uses of computers in a writing class is perhaps the most common activity that writers use computer for in the first place: writing. For many students, it will represent a "unique activity" to actually compose at the keyboard, no pen or paper in sight.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
Find rich, hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time. These colorful, creative curriculum ideas are perfect for young children.
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
The Center for Innovation inn Engineering and Science Education http://www.ciese.org/currichome.html
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet.
The OzProjects website assists you to find suitable online curriculum projects and provides access to a host of resources to support your involvement. If you are new to online projects, you may like to start in the Support section. Search and browse the range of online projects in the project registry. Find a project of interest, visit the project's website and contact the project coordinator to begin your involvement. Add your own projects to the OzProjects registry for others to become involved. You can also access online tools, the latest online project news and use the calendar to see what online events are coming up.
Project-based learning is a terrific way to link your curriculum with real world events and applications of concepts that your students are learning. These resources will inform you about project based learning, link you to projects on the Web, and help you and your students to design your own curriculum-based multimedia projects.
10.) Design original works using digital tools.
Students will create a pattern using paint tools.
Read the sentences about the weather. Then cut out the weather symbols below. Paste each symbol into the correct box.
Students give FunBrain a list of words which it then hides in the puzzle. Select a level and and you can choose if you want to play against FunBrain or if you want the puzzle to be printed out on paper so you can play it away from the computer.
Awesome Clipart for Educators http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/
FREE educator clipart, coloring pages, banners, backgrounds, fonts, icons, lines, worksheets and wallpaper with aliens, animals, cats, creatures, dogs, education, holidays, robots, sports, toys, weather & more
This is a series of 80 downloadable Word documents that include exercises and worksheets to teach word processing to elementary school children. They include: 6 on Basics; 17 covering skills like Cut and Paste, Tables or use of Clip Art; 17 Generic sets, for example Calendar, Certificates and Book Review; and others on various creative applications of word processing.
This perhaps goes without saying, but one of the best uses of computers in a writing class is perhaps the most common activity that writers use computer for in the first place: writing. For many students, it will represent a "unique activity" to actually compose at the keyboard, no pen or paper in sight.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
Use your mouse just like you do with an etch-a-sketch.
Find rich, hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time. These colorful, creative curriculum ideas are perfect for young children. Puzzlemaker http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
The Center for Innovation inn Engineering and Science Education http://www.ciese.org/currichome.html
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet.
OzProjects http://www.ozprojects.edna.edu.au/sibling/home The OzProjects website assists you to find suitable online curriculum projects and provides access to a host of resources to support your involvement. If you are new to online projects, you may like to start in the Support section. Search and browse the range of online projects in the project registry. Find a project of interest, visit the project's website and contact the project coordinator to begin your involvement. Add your own projects to the OzProjects registry for others to become involved. You can also access online tools, the latest online project news and use the calendar to see what online events are coming up.
Math Projects http://www.ct4me.net/math_projects.htm Project-based learning is a terrific way to link your curriculum with real world events and applications of concepts that your students are learning. These resources will inform you about project based learning, link you to projects on the Web, and help you and your students to design your own curriculum-based multimedia projects.