Week 6: Copyright, Occupations and Careers

Homework for the Teacher

• Designing Research Projects Students (and Teachers) Love, by Doug Johnson (Scroll down the page)
• Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom
• Monitor Papers with Plagiarism Stoppers
• Teacher Guide to the Journey Inside: Student handouts, overheads, & background information
• Note: Flash (a plug-in) is required to view The Journey Inside. Your computer will checked as soon as you link to the sites. If you don't have the plug-in, you will have the opportunity to download it immediately.
• Learn more about plug-ins at TechKnow Park's "First Aid Center."

Reading Strategy Spotlight
Connect the known to the new. Activate relevant, prior knowledge before, during, and after reading. Connecting a student's existing schema to new schema is a vital linking process that helps to store new information permanently in their long-term memories.

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"
Do your lesson plans incorporate these principles?

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.

Check your progress with computer and information skills.

Go back to the Lemonade Stand.