Social
Studies
ClarisWorks: Word
Processing/Database, Internet, Scanner
Overview
The purpose of this activity is to have small groups of students
to plan a U.S. President’s world itinerary and to present a
press release announcing the economic and international importance of
this itinerary.
ClarisWorks and Web
Browser
Overview
A student and a partner will select one current news story to
research and examine how two examples of the same story can be
presented differently. The students will explain their findings to
the class demonstrating how personal feelings can affect news
reporting.
Hyperstudio
Overview
In groups of four students will research one of the Bill of
Rights. Students will discover how their amendment relates to society
and how it affects them personally.
ClarisWorks
Overview
Students will work in groups to prepare slide shows to review the
settlement of the West, 1849-1909. The slide show will identify the
major concepts related to the following topics:
Moving West
Rails Across a Continent
The Mining Frontier
Culture and Traditions of Native Americans (Plains Indians)
The Last Indian Wars
The Cattle Kingdom
The Farming Frontier
Internet &
ClarisWorks
Overview
Students will research an Internet web site (WebQuest: All Men Are
Created Equal) to gain a better understanding of the experiences of
the Cherokee, Japanese, and African-American people during their
struggle for respect and tolerance. Students will then create a
newspaper containing a news account and an editorial about one of the
three groups.
ClarisWorks
Overview
Students will have already chosen a topic on which to write a bill
(to be passed in the Classroom Congress) and will have completed the
research necessary for the bill. This lesson will take the teacher
through the process of writing the bill in the lab, peer editing, and
amending and passing the bill through a classroom Congress.
ClairsWorks
Overview
Students will generate two pie charts as to their estimation of
the composition of the United States by racial groups. The first pie
chart will be their own estimation (as a class), the second will be a
pie chart generated using the actual numbers.
ClarisWorks
Overview
In this lesson students will research the economic organization of
another country. After completing the research students will create a
slide show presentation for the class.
Word Processing
Overview
Students identify and research a local problem and decide what
actions they as citizens need to take to improve their community.
Although this lesson focuses on stream preservation and the
Chesapeake Bay Act,any local problem
(congested traffic, noise pollution, littered park lands) could serve
equally well.
Internet Access
Overview
In-depth coverage of the President's Cabinet and its
organizational structure.
ClarisWorks, Internet, and Scanner
Overview
The Student or group of students will research and develop a
cookbook for an assigned country. Each cookbook will include items to
complete 5 menus from the student's assigned country.
Overview
HyperStudio Civil Rights Magazine.
"Separate But Equal" video and a computer
Overview
Students will view the video and write an objective editorial based
on it.
Internet and Word Processing
Overview
Students will investigate a contemporary issue (in this case
capital punishment) and prepare, using a word processor, a position
on the argument that they are putting forward.
Word Processing and internet access
Overview
Working in groups of 4, students will design, research, and create
a "newspaper" that effectively explains the who, what, when, where
and why of four historical events that in some way have influenced
the American system of government.
Internet, word processor, and printer
Overview
Students will access the Internet in order to compile voter turnout
statistics and comparative government information from ten countries.
Students will use this information to create a spreadsheet. The
spreadsheet will serve as a foundation for a class discussion and
subsequently a three paragraph persuasive
essayto address the question posed in
the lesson title.
Spreadsheet Program
Overview
Students will gather personal data and graph results of this
collection in the spreadsheet program.
Business Section of Major City Newspaper, Computer for each
student with Internet access and
PowerPoint,Demonstration Computer,
Large Monitor, Word Processing software (e.g.. ClarisWorks),
Printer
Overview
In this lesson, students use the Internet and PowerPoint to
research and relate information on American corporations to
classmates. This is a culminating lesson in Economics/Stock
Market.
Computers with a word processing program and Internet
accessibility, and a library with reference materials.
Overview
Students choose a contemporary civic-life issue, research their
topic to form and defend an argument, and write a five paragraph
persuasive essay with bibliography to cite their sources.
Computer, internet and printer
Overview
Students will be taking a "trip" to a foreign country, via the
Internet. Each student will visit the website of the U.S. embassy of
a different country, and gather bits of information that would be
important for them to know (as if they were getting ready to travel
to that country)
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