Cookman:  Intro to IT

3rd / 5th period

 Weekly Agenda (subject to change)

 

NO CURRENT EVENT DUE THIS WEEK!!!

 

MONDAY, OCT. 13

 

1.  Keyboarding

 

2.  Go to www.brainpop.com and log in.  Choose Technology –Computers and Internet- Email and IM.  View the video and answer the questions on the handout. Then take the graded quiz and print results.  Then click on FYI and read through the five areas indicated by the pictures (comic, in-depth, graphs, stats, and numbers, in practice, and around the world.) Read through them and answer the questions on the back side of the handout.  Turn Handout in when you are done. 

 

3.  View the video on Columbus in honor of Columbus Day.

 

4.  TEC Time:  Finish any incomplete work!

 

TUESDAY, OCT. 14

 

1.  Keyboarding

 

2.  Power Point Clip Art Collage:  Open Power Point.  Save the file in Cookmanyourperiod – Clip Art Collage – your name.  Using Word Art, make your name on the page.  Using Clip Art, find 15 graphics that define things about you, such as favorite foods, sports, hobbies, what is important to you. Be as creative as you can.  Save your file

 

3.  TEC Time

 

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15

 

1.  Keyboarding

 

2.  Email activity.  Read the information on the website: : http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

about Netiquette.  Then follow the directions on the handout for creating your own email.

 

3.  TEC Time:  Finish any incomplete work!!!!

 

THURSDAY, OCT. 16 

 

1.  Keyboarding Assessment

 

2.  Share stories, clip art collage projects, etc. 

 

3.  TEC Time: New sites!

 

FRIDAY, OCT. 17

 

1.  Finish any incomplete work.  This is the last day of the nine weeks!!!

 

2.  World Almania

 

Monday is a student holiday!!!

 

 

ARCHIVES:  Week of 10/6-10/10

   Week of 9/29-10/3

     Week of 9/22 - 9/26

                        Week of 9/15-9/19

                        Week of 9/8-9/12

                        Week of   9/2 - 9/5

                       Week of August 25-29

                        Week of August 18-22

                       

   

  Time to Explore the Computer  / The Last 10 Minutes of Class


     1. You may continue to work on class assignments. This might be a good idea if you are behind on your work.
     2. You may go to any of the sites listed below. If any of these sites link to a game site, you MAY NOT go to those game sites.
     3. Game sites are not allowed during TEC time.
     4. As always - you are not allowed to check your email, go into chat rooms or forums, download anything from the Internet, or listen to or view music or music videos or other MS Live or You Tube type videos.

 

Typing Sites:
Keyboarding Practice http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/cjh/appliedtech/Business/Keyboarding/Index.html
Aunt Lee Typing Practice http://www.auntlee.com/kids/hardertyping.htm
Nimble fingers http://www.nimblefingers.com/index_1.html
PowerTyping http://www.powertyping.com/
Touch Typing
http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/
 

Computer Learning Sites:
Atomic Learning http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/home
What Is? http://whatis.techtarget.com/
Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx
Flaming Text http://flamingtext.com/
History of Apple Computers http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Apple_Computers.htm
 

HTML Web Design Sites:
W3C Web tutorials http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
HTML Code help http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
 

Search Sites:
Kids Click Web Searching http://www.kidsclick.org/
 

Math Sites:
Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/index.html
Brain Teasers http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/
Beat the Calculator http://mathforum.org/k12/mathtips/beatcalc.html
Mystery Nets http://kids.mysterynet.com//solveit/
Cool Math http://www.coolmath.com/
That Quiz http://www.thatquiz.org/
 

General Learning Sites:
Ed Heads http://www.edheads.org/
Place the State http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html
Discovery School http://school.discoveryeducation.com/
PBS http://www.pbs.org/
eMints http://www.emints.org/
BrainPOP! videos http://www.brainpop.com/
Glencoe Textbooks http://www.glencoe.com/
How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/
 

Science Sites:
Steve Spangler Science Videos http://www.stevespangler.com/
 

 MORE SITES TO EXPLORE…

The Art Zone – The National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm

Nutrition – Recipes, information, games, exercise
http://www.zip4tweens.org/
http://www.kidnetic.com/

National Public Radio – Listen to podcasts and watch videos
http://www.npr.org/

Book Pals Story Online – watch and listen to someone famous read a book!
http://www.storylineonline.net/

 

Do you like to read? Check out this site:
http://www.kidsreads.com/

Aesop’s Fables
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/index.php

Dr. Seuss
http://www.seussville.com/lb/home.html

Make your own Flipbook!
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/flipbook/

Starship English – Grow you own story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/storyplant.shtml

Play some Jeopardy Games
http://www.centennial.k12.mn.us/gle/Jeopardy/Games.htm

Astronomy picture of the day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Go here and click on Image Gallery for cool microscopic images
http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/


Current Events:
Time For Kids
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids
The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/index.html
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/


Barack Obama’s Site
http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

John McCain’s Site
http://www.johnmccain.com/

Instant Poetry Forms
http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

Bill Nye the Science Guy
http://www.billnye.com/

Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/

History Channel
http://www.history.com/

Secrets @ Sea
http://www.secretsatsea.org/

Kitchen Chemistry
http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/kitchenchemistry/

Compare your math and science knowledge
http://www.getsmarter.org/index.cfm

Are you in the Biology Class?
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/
Cool Science
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/

National Geographic for Kids
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/

Human Anatomy Online
http://www.innerbody.com/

I know that games
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_Science

Thomas Edison
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhm.html

US House of Representatives
http://clerkkids.house.gov/

US Census Bureau
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/kids/kids.html

Virtual Tourist
http://www.virtualtourist.com/

TimeCapsule
http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

The Seven Wonders of the World
http://www.cleveleys.co.uk/wonders/sevenwondersoftheworld.htm

Place the State
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

I Know That Social Studies
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_SocialStudies

Punctuation Quiz
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/quiz/mquiz.asp?filename=kderittepun

Mr. Picasso Head Art
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/

Art Site
http://www.haringkids.com/
http://www.mowa.org/kids/kids_enter.html

Etch a Sketch
http://www.ohioart.com/etch/

Online Simulation – Make a Catapult
http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/

Peep and the Big Wide World
http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/

The Nano World
http://www.molecularium.com/kidsite.html

The Great Plant Escape
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/

The Science ToyMaker
http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/

Mystery of the Poison Dart Frog
http://www.ncmoa.org/costarica/

ProtoZone
http://www.protozone.net/AJinteractives.html

Ways of Knowing Trail
http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/pagegen/wok/index_f4.html

Burarra Gathering
http://burarra.questacon.edu.au/home.html

Children’s Museum
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/

Switcheroo Zoo – Make Crazy Animals
http://switchzoo.com/

Kids Garden Tour
http://4hgarden.msu.edu/kidstour/tour.html

Thinking Fountain
http://www.thinkingfountain.org/

Learn About Mexico
http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/index_esp.html

My First Garden
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/firstgarden/index.html

Ant Safari
http://www.moma.org/momalearning/artsafari/index.html

Secret Messages – Cryptology
http://www.thunk.com/

Make a Hamster Scope
http://www.hamstertours.com/hamsterscope.html

Rainbow Makers World
http://www.zianet.com/rainbow/home.htm

Bubbles!
http://bubbles.org/

Online-Stopwatch
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

Learn Spanish
http://learnspanish.com/

PetFinder
http://petfinder.com/

Kids Against Bullying
http://kidsagainstbullying.org/

Engineer Girl
http://www.engineergirl.org/

Science Friday
http://www.sciencefriday.com/

Explore a Russian Palace
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/

Teen Read Week
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2008/index.cfm

Picturing America
http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/

SeaWorld
http://www.seaworld.com/

Media Education Lab
http://www.mediaeducationlab.com/

The Learning Box Interactive pages
http://www.learningbox.com/i_index.htm

Play Music
http://www.playmusic.org/