JRB Tech Class

Exploring technology as a tool to learn, create and communicate

Learning Goals

  1. Find information using an online encyclopedia.
  2. Summarize information.
  3. Put ideas in chronological order.
  4. Edit and revise to make your writing better: add, replace and move words.
  5. Tell where you got your information.
  6. Take a picture with a digital camera.

Hands-on in the Lab

Our main project: the MA Hall of Fame!

  1. Go to the library Web page and search Groliers Online.
  2. Copy and paste a picture of your famous person into Microsoft Word, and add in some information about why your person is famous.
  3. Read the encyclopedia article about your famous person, and answer these questions.
  4. Use the information you've found to make a puppet of your person in art class with Mrs. Richard and a paragraph about your person in tech class with Mrs. Davis.

Here are some Web sites that will help you:

 

Finished Early? Explore on the Web

  1. Midnight Rider: A Paul Revere Virtual Museum
  2. Compound Machines: learn how forces and simple machines can work together to create The Compound Machine!
  3. Simple Machines: learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the house and tool shed.
  4. Math Magician: practice your math facts
  5. Giggle Poetry: funny poetry for students.
  6. Journey North: learn more about the migration of the monarch butterfly.
  7. Pyramid Power: reach Planet Power by fueling your rocket with healthy food and exercise.
  8. Fun with pictures: Dumpr & FX
  9. MakeBeliefsComix: create your own comic strip!
  10. You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving from Plimoth Plantation.
  11. The First Thanksgiving from Scholastic.