Week 6 - Weekly To Do List

	Discussion
	Textbook Reading Guide
	Activities
	Web Resources

See TRG, your Textbook Reading Guide, who will tell you what pages to read in your textbook.

There is one activity this week. OK, so it has 6 parts.

I call this the Productivity Quiz. The answers are word processing, spreadsheets, databases or any one of the 6 categories of teacher tools. That's right 9 possible answers, but only 6 things to do.

Your job is to write 6 scenarios where we might use one of the above pieces of software. Most people want to focus on the technology tool first and the instruction second. I want to do this the other way around. Instruction first. So your job this week is to create 6 scenarios out of the possible 9, where we might use technology and have the rest of the class, including me guess what the technology is that we should use! This, of course, will be multiple choice or matching or fill in the blanks.

Try out Discovery School for your quizzes. Be sure to let us know where they are.

Discovery School is FREE, but you do have to sign up as a teacher for Quiz Maker.

Here is the model for what a scenario is. Go ahead and try it out.

1. To teach children the letters, use the name game. List all the letters of the alphabet. Then ask for a child's name. Place the name under the letter of the alphabetg thatg begins the name. Ask for other names that begin with the same letter. What technology tool would you use for this activity?

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2. In a lesson on Native Americans collect information on tribe name, tribe leader, area of the USA, state of residence, sample fods, shelter, clothing, religion and population count. What kind of software would you use for this activity?

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3. To help learn about the electoral college, each class gets electoral votes based on class size. Hold a mock election. Keep track of the popular vote versus the electoral votes. Keep a running tally and total the final counts. What technology would you use for this?

To get the answers, try my mini quiz at:

http://www.quia.com/jq/50370.html

Post the address for your quiz in the "Productivity Quiz" conference.

• Word
• Excel
• Powerpoint
• Publisher
• Inspiration
• Kid Pix
• Easy Grade Pro (Lucy's gradebook!)

• Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Open Office (FREE office) word processing and spreadsheet
• Photo Elements (Photoshop Lite)
• Picassa - free photo organizing and editing software

Teacher Tools

http://www.puzzlemaker.com

http://www.edhelper.com

There are lots of these. As you find your favorites, let us know.

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