The One Computer Classroom Suggested Activities For the Intermediate Grades

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The One Computer ClassroomSuggested Activities
For the Intermediate Grades
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Things to Keep in Mind

• Use the computer as a tool for accomplishing your
  educational objectives
• Plan your computer activity in advance and have
  the directions written out and placed next to the
  computer
• Assign one student as the class expert for the
  duration of the project to assist with questions
• Choose computer skill to practice and do many
  projects following the same steps

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Web Worksheets/ Internet Research

• Find a website that goes along with the topic you
  are studying
• Create a worksheet with guiding questions to go
  along with the site
• Give each student the chance to use the computer
  to view the site
• SAMPLE
• Puzzles of the Earth
• http//library.thinkquest.org/17701/high/index.htm
  l

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Instructional Delivery

• Introduce a skill to the class using PowerPoint
  presentation.
• Send students to the computer to view the
  directions for a second time or is they were
  absent.
• SAMPLE
• Bite and Bump/ Tessellation Project

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Find an Answer to a Tough Question

• Send students to the an expert on the internet to
  ask a challenging question
• Use the computer to find an answer to a tough
  question
• SAMPLE
• http//www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8991/ask
  me.html
• http//www.shastahome.com/search/kidsearch.htm

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Spreadsheets

• Use a spreadsheet to record information from a
  class experiment or survey
• Make a chart to view the results
• Put up a bulletin board to display findings to
  the rest of the school
• SAMPLE
• How Tall Are We?

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Reinforce Skills

• Locate a website that will reinforce a skill
• Give each student classroom time visiting this
  site
• SAMPLE
• Math Facts/ Drill and Practice
• http//www.edu4kids.com/math/

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PowerPoint Presentation

• Pick a topic for a class presentation.
• Give students time to work on the computer to
  complete one or two slides
• Put all the slides together into one presentation
• SAMPLE
• Founding Fathers Project/
• Sunset Heights 6th grade class

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Take a Virtual Tour

• Find a virtual tour to visit that aligns with
  your curriculum.
• Use the large screen monitor to take the tour
  with the entire class
• SAMPLE
• State House Tour
• http//www.state.nh.us/gencourt/shtour/tour1.html

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Introduce a Computer Skill

• Save time in the lab by presenting a new skill or
  reviewing an assignment in the classroom ahead of
  time
• SAMPLE
• PowerPoint Presentation/ Ben Franklin/ PowerPoint
  List

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Demonstration

• Teach the class a new skill using the large
  screen monitor
• SAMPLE
• MS Word How to Write a Business Letter,
• Editing

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Word Processing

• Give each student a scheduled time to type a
  piece of work
• Use the large screen to edit student work
• SAMPLE
• Founding Fathers Research

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Learning Center

• Turn the computer into a center
• Have a website already on the screen and create a
  worksheet to go with it
• SAMPLE
• http//www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/