Grades 3 - 5 Class Projects & Links
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Subjects: Science, Language Arts, Technology skills
Required Software: Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Internet Explorer or
Netscape
Grade Level:
Intermediate
Students learn the characteristics of mammals and write a paragraph about their research.
Subjects: Science, Language Arts, Technology skills
Required Software: Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Internet Explorer or
Netscape
Grade Level:
Intermediate
Students learn the characteristics of the states of matter: solid, liquid and gas and then write a paragraph.
Subjects: Social Studies, Language Arts, Technology skills
Required Software: Microsoft® PowerPoint, Microsoft® Internet Explorer or
Netscape
Grade Level:
Intermediate
Students become virtual travel agents researching a trip for their clients and then publish and present the data in a PowerPoint presentation.
Subjects: Social Studies, Language Arts, Technology skills
Required Software: Microsoft® PowerPoint, Microsoft® Internet Explorer or
Netscape
Grade Level:
Intermediate
Students become virtual travel agents researching a trip for their clients and then publish and present the data in a PowerPoint presentation.
Subjects: Music History, Language Arts
Required Software: Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Microsoft® Internet
Explorer or Netscape
Optional Software: Microsoft® Encarta® 98/99 Encyclopedia Deluxe
Grade Level: Intermediate
The Music History Hall of Fame is currently developing its nomination list for inductees from the 20th Century. Students have been assigned the job of nominating a candidate for induction into the Hall of Fame by submitting nominations in the form of a biographical sketch audio-visual presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint persuading voters to elect a candidate.
Subjects: Core Curriculum, Technology skills
Required Software: Microsoft® PowerPoint, Microsoft® Internet Explorer or
Netscape
Grade Level:
Intermediate
In this lesson, students create a multimedia presentation describing the main events in the life of the famous person of their choice.
Subjects: Core Curriculum, Technology skills
Required Software: Kid Pix Deluxe, Microsoft® Internet Explorer or
Netscape
Grade Level:
Intermediate
Here are resources for using Kid Pix in the 3rd through 5th grade classroom.
Subjects: Internet skills
Required Software: Microsoft® Internet Explorer or
Netscape
Grade Level:
Intermediate - Middle School
Students often do not realize that there is a world outside their own small world. Listed here are just a few websites and scavenger hunts that will help them to understand that they can expand their horizons, even if it's just on the computer.
Subjects: Math, Technology
Required Software: Microsoft® Excel
Grade Level:
Intermediate - Middle School
Students create an Excel spreadsheet and graph based upon a survey they take of their class.
Subjects: Science, Internet skills
Required Software: Microsoft® Internet Explorer or
Netscape, Microsoft PowerPoint
Grade Level:
Intermediate - Middle School
Students are challenged to find out important information about each of the planets in our solar system and then report their findings to the rest of their classmates using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Subjects: Math, Language Arts, Science
Required Software: Microsoft® Word®, Microsoft® Internet Explorer or
Netscape
Optional Software: Microsoft® Encarta® 98/99 Encyclopedia Deluxe
Grade Level: Intermediate - Middle School
Here are some math scavenger hunts to help students learn how to find information on the Internet about math concepts.
Subjects: Social Studies, Language Arts
Required Software: Microsoft® Word®, Microsoft® Internet Explorer or
Netscape
Optional Software: Microsoft® Encarta® 98/99 Encyclopedia Deluxe
Grade Level: Intermediate - Middle School
Here are some social studies scavenger hunts to help students learn how to find information on the Internet about social studies concepts.
Harriet
Tubman Timeline Project
Subjects: Social Studies, LA
Required Software: Microsoft® Internet Explorer or Netscape, Microsoft®
PowerPoint
Time
Allotted: 3 - 4 class periods
Grade Level: Intermediate - Middle School
In this lesson, students create a multimedia presentation timeline describing the main events in Harriet Tubman's life.
Subjects: Language Arts
Required Software: Microsoft® Internet Explorer or Netscape
Grade Level: Intermediate - Middle School
In this lesson, students discover information about themselves on the Internet including events that have taken place on their birthday, a look at the etymology of their name, finding out if other people have the same name, and planning a trip to a remote destination.
Subject: Math
Required Software: Microsoft® Excel
Time
Allotted: 2-3 class periods
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Students will use Microsoft Excel to track grades in a spreadsheet helping them to understand the meaning of averaging scores to calculate a grade and begin to understand the idea of how their action or inaction affects subsequent consequences.
Subjects: Language Arts
Required Software: Microsoft® Word
Optional Software: Microsoft® Internet Explorer
Grade Level: Intermediate - Middle School
The five sentence paragraph is explored here helping students to understand not only the fundamentals of paragraph construction, but also the basics of using a word processor such as Microsoft Word to create it and to jazz it up.
