Week
23: Create and Modify a Database
Homework
for the Teacher
This
week and next week, schedule plenty of time for students to create
and work with their own databases. They will need time to collect
the data from their classmates and family, as well. Help them
collect the data in the most efficient manner possible. For example,
you could play "musical chairs" in
a computer lab. Here’s how: Students
open their saved database files in list view with one empty record
showing. When the music starts playing, each student moves to
the chair beside them (clockwise) and types whatever personal
data is required for the records showing on that particular computer.
Stop the music when everyone has finished entering data. Instruct
them to save the data and create a new blank record for the next
student. When the music starts again, they move to the next chair
and start entering data again. Continue until every student has
at least 10 new records for their classmates. Ask students to
print the records for you to review. It’s great practice
and loads of fun for everyone! (Monitor their entries VERY closely!
Some students can be too creative, right?)
- In
the NewsDay
Project, students can create their own newspaper
and post articles for the whole world to read.
Reading
Strategy Spotlight
Drawing
inferences in text is the process of combining what is read
with relevant prior knowledge. Use this process to help students
create meaning that is not necessarily obvious in the material.
Encourage them to become detectives, using clues from their reading
along with what they already know, to draw conclusions, make
reasonable predictions, establish connections, and make critical
and analytical judgments.
Student
Activity Sheet
Printable pages designed to complement the current week's
Reading Strategy Spotlight and to help students organize their
thoughts, reflect upon reading material, and look for organizational
patterns in online text.
BBs: Weekly
Nuggets of "Best Practices" and "Brain Research"
How
can emotions help to lock in memories? Link to Teachley's!
TechKnow
Disaster Preparedness Page
Printable Computer Skills Mini-Posters & activity sheets
for those times when the network crashes or equipment is unavailable.
You can print a different page each week.
Fifth
Grade Computer Skills Test Item Bank
Please retain the security of this test to maintain its
validity. Contact your local Media and/or Technology Director
for the user name and password to access the item bank.
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