Explore Microsoft's popular web browser Internet Explorer 8. Customize the tools and features to best suit your browsing needs.
This lesson helps students refine their computer and internet use skills. They will be taught how to do simple searches on the internet to find information, then they will search for information on a topic they care about and present a summary of their findings in order to check for some understanding. This is an introductory lesson into the use of computer and internet use. The skills learned in this lesson will be beneficial for students to start working on furthering their researching and typing abilities.
New to email? Learn what email is, how to set up an account, how to reply to and send emails, and more.
In this problem-based learning module, students will investigate the importance of genetic diversity will be explored by examining several case studies revealing consequences that can occur in individuals within a limited gene pool and how a variety of genes can lead to the survival of a species. Students will be able to create and interpret information from pedigree charts.
If you're looking for information, the internet has a lot of it. The problem is, you can't trust every website you find. You'll need to evaluate each website to decide whether it's reliable. We're going to go over some skills that will help you do that.
During this problem-based blended learning module students will be designing their dream bedroom as well as creating a scale drawing of the items they chose to be in their bedroom. The launch activity introduces the students to Scale City, which is a video that explores scale models in the real world. Students are then given dimensions for a fictional bedroom to furnish with items of their choosing. Price is not considered in this module, but a budget could be introduced as an extension of the module. Students will then spend time researching items that they would want to place in their bedroom with the area constraints given. Students will have the opportunity to provide each other peer feedback on their bedroom designs. Once students have a rough idea of their bedroom design, they will spend some time creating a scale drawing of their bedroom on graph paper. This will give students the opportunity to use a scale factor to create a scale drawing. Students will again be provided feedback on their designs and be given time to reflect and redesign as needed. If students need extra time to practice using a scale factor and creating scale models, a station rotation lesson has been included as an optional resource.
Mac OS X Lion is Apple's 2011 operating system for Mac desktop and laptop computers. Learn how Lion transformed the way users interact with their computer with features like multi-touch gestures, Launchpad, Mission Control and more.
Explore Mountain Lion, Apple's newest OS X operating system for Mac computers and laptops.
Learn how to access and manage your Microsoft services from a single, cloud-based account.
Acquire essential skills for producing professional work with the Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more.
Design impressive brochures, business cards, newsletters and more with Microsoft Publisher.
Learn the very basics of managing money as well as strategies for saving, budgeting, retirement and more
Students explore naming conventions in digital and non-digital settings then choose and explain specific names and profiles to represent themselves online.
Learn how to navigate a website.
A short introduction to the concept and features of online photo sharing web sites.
A short guide to recognizing and avoiding phishing scams.
A short introduction to Podcasting and how it's different from broadcasting.
The purpose of Making Sense of Our World is to encourage students to use communicative behaviors to relate their thinking like scientists. The module introduces strategies developed in Kindergarten. These strategies include identifying sensory attributes to sort, classify, and compare observational data about our world, and are for all students. The classroom teacher should work with a specialist or special educator to find or develop alternate activities or resources for visually impaired students, where appropriate.
A GNG collaborative project is a project-based learning activity that challenges students to work together to develop solutions to real-world problems. Within and across classrooms, students collaborate to identify a challenge in their local or global communities and develop a project that addresses the issue by promoting positive change and community engagement.
An introduction to RSS as a way to save time reading web sites.