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Grades
8-12
Description
Students will use Word Processing to write a report
on the changes over climate over time. These
changes can be found on the NEO and NIH websites.
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In this assignment, students will create their dream
vacation. Excel will be used to plan their budget for
the events and places they will go. Excel will be their
organizer for the trip.
Presentation
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9-12
A PowerPoint presentation will be given by students
in groups of three or four. The presentation will be
about an event in the Harlem Renaissance.
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9-12
Students will take pictures of all types of shapes
around the school. They will post these pictures on a
Word Processing document and try to find a
corresponding function to match the shape.
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7-9
An Excel worksheet will be used to track stocks.
Students are given $10,000 and will use the formulas
is Excel to determine how much each stock cost and
how many stocks they will buy.
Presentation
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6-12
Students will create a PowerPoint presentation about
a U.S. Revolutionary war hero. The presentation will
include biographical information and information
about the battles they fought in.
Word Processing 1:
Exploring Climate Change Using the Eyes In the Sky
Duration
(Number of class sessions required to complete the project):
4-5 sessions
Microsoft technologies used:
Word, Power point
Project implementation
Implementation outline
Session 1: Introduce the students to NEO (NASA Earth Observations)
• Open the site: http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Search.html
• Demonstrate the various aspects of NEO
• How to choose a satellite image, data set, time period, how to save, view in Google
Earth
• Show examples of change, demonstrate how to develop explanations
• Requirements of the project: Choose at least 3 images (preferably 5) over a period of
time. Ie: same month over 5 years, or several months in 1 year
• Allow students to work through NEO and begin to choose and save their images
Session 2: Introduce the students to NIH ImageJ
• Download the site: http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/download.html
• Demonstrate the various aspects of ImageJ
• Demonstrate how to open save files (from NEO)
• Demonstrate how to stack the images and then animate
• Show examples of change, demonstrate how to develop explanations
• Requirements of the project: Animate image and then choose at least 5 major areas
of the world and explain the change depending on the data set of the image. Afterwards
create a montage to print the images for the research paper and power point.
• Demonstrate how to create a montage of the images.
• Allow students to work through ImageJ and begin to animate and make a montage of
their images.
Session 3: Home Learning
• Work on project
• Using Neo decide on the data set desired to work on.
• Using NEO find and save the images
• Animate images and write notes of global changes
• Create a montage using ImageJ
• Rough draft out the global changes from the images
• Bring printed images and rough draft to class
Session 4: Class Discussion
• In groups with similar data set of images
• Each member share their images and findings
• Each member finalize their research paper based on their findings
Spreadsheet 1:
Dream Vacation
In the first session of this project, students will choose their vacation location. They will
also be given an overview of the Word templates created for their use.
In the second session of this project, students will be introduced to Diigo, a social
bookmarking tool and create three bookmarks about their location.
In the third session, students will be introduced to Excel and how to create sheets to
keep track of expenses.
In the fourth session, students will be introduced to the blog accounts they will use
during the project.
In the fifth session, students will be introduced to Google Maps. They will learn to insert
placemarks, HTML, and routes in the program.
In the sixth session, students will be introduced to Glogster, the last part of their
project.
Students will follow the following steps to create their Dream Vacation Project after
they have been introduced to all of the components.
Step 1: Choose your location
Pick three places you would like to research as part of this project.
You cannot do the same location as someone in your class.
Sign up on the clipboard.
Ms. Kraft will assign you one of your three choices by the end of the day.
Step 2: Plan your itinerary
Save this template to your H: Drive.
Fill in the information with where you will go on what days
Step 3: Research
Save this template to your H: Drive
Dream Vacation Research Notes.docx
You will need to include the following information in each section:
Date you accessed the website
Name of website
Website address
Information you are using from that website
Image you are using from that website
Image citation
Presentation Software 1:
Harlem Renaissance Research Project
1. Students will work in groups of no more than three (3).
2. A well-developed topic outline must be submitted on the day of the presentation.
Final outline will be typed, 12 point font.
3. Your PowerPoint presentations should show care and preparation. You should
include photographs, maps, audio, etc. This is your chance to be creative and/or
artistic!
4. Members of the group must share the workload as equally as possible.
5. A bibliography in MLA format must be created listing all sources.
6. Oral presentations must not exceed five (5) minutes nor fail to be at least three
(3) minutes.
TOPICS
1. Zora Neale Hurston
-Life and Times
-Literature/critical success
-In the Harlem Renaissance
-Folklore/anthropology
2. Racial Segregation: 1920s-1930s
-In the South
-In Public Education
-Legislation
3. Harlem Renaissance Art
-Major Figures
-Style
-Influences
4. Harlem Renaissance Writers
-Major Authors
-Style/Focus
-Historical Context
5. Harlem Renaissance Music
-Major Jazz Artists
-Major Blues Artists
-Historical Influences
Word Processing 2:
Parent Functions in the School
Students will go around the school and take pictures of an item that has a shape of one of the
parent functions that we have learned about this year. After an item is found and a picture is
taken, the students will place the picture into a word document, draw in x and y axes, and find
the equation that matches the picture.
Comments
This activity is designed for a Math 1 or Math 2 Class that has been taught the parent functions and transformations of
those parent functions. The students will need to be able to identify parent functions as well as write equations of
transformed parent functions.
Cross-Curriculum Ideas
Parabolas are found everywhere. Art-designs and structure of arches. Science-dealing with movement of an object.
Follow-Up
If time allows, you can have the students find an example of EVERY parent function to make this a more thorough
activity.
Materials:
Memory Cards, Graphing, Point and Shoot, High
Spreadsheet 2:
Stock Market Project
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Description :
In this activity, you and/or a small group will invest $10,000 in four different companies
and then track the stock market price of those companies over a period of time
Researching the Market
Software: Internet, Google Finance
What to do : Choose a few companies in which you think you would like to invest. Using
Microsoft's Internet Explorer and a search engine access each company's Web site in
order to gather as much background information as possible about each company,
including:
Type of company
Number of years in business
Summary of what the company does
2013 profits
2014 profits (thus far)
Now, review the information gathered and decide on four companies in which to invest.
Find out the current selling price per share for each company's stock. Decide how many
shares of stock you want to buy in each company keeping in mind that you have only
$10,000 to invest.
Summary :
This lesson will teach you how to invest in corporate stocks by creating investment
"portfolios." Step-by-step instructions will enable you to develop worksheets that track
their portfolio's performance over a specified time period and report the results to the
class.
Objectives:
To introduce you to the Stock Market, design a worksheet that calculates profit (or loss)
for any given investment, generate line graphs representing stock performance and
create a PowerPoint presentation giving background information on the companies you
chose.
Prerequisite Skills:
Know Microsoft Excel basics and its many features including creating worksheets,
writing formulas and charting, how to create multimedia slide presentation using
Presentation Software 2:
An Interview with South Carolina Revolutionary
Heroes
Students will be assigned (or they may pick from a list) the name of one U.S.
revolutionary war hero or a British general. They will then research the individual's
biographical information and the battles that they participated in. The information they
discover will be provided to the other students either in a verbal presentation
(PowerPoint) or in a class discussion. The narrator will take his questions from the
students' reports, and with the assistance of the facilitator (teacher), he/she will prepare
a list of interview questions to use in the video tape production. In addition, students can
prepare charts or instructional materials to add to a Movie Maker 3 production. Students
will be responsible for video recording, editing video, selecting appropriate clips to add to
the Movie Maker slides, record narrations for the introduction and closing using Audacity
software, add slide presentations, graphs and charts, etc.
Students will be responsible for selecting materials that fall within the fair use copyright
rules.
Students will burn a DVD of the final project for their personal collection to add to their
student technology portfolio.
Cross-Curriculum Ideas
Working with the computer teacher to create excel graphs for the production.
Materials: Flash Memory Camcorders, DVD Camcorder, CDs and DVDs, Flash/USB
Drives, Tripods, Batteries, Writing,Cause and Effect