Week
24: Using
a Database to Create a Product
Homework
for the Teacher
This week’s activity is an extension
of last week’s database creation activity. Provide ample
time for students to finalize their collection and storage of
data. As students manipulate a database this week, encourage
them to look for unique characteristics of the data and to find
patterns to compare and contrast. As you have seen in recent
weeks, creating a database of any kind requires children to think
creatively and critically from the very beginning.
Now
is a good time to visit the NC
5th Grade Test Item Bank and print all the questions
related to database objectives 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, and
3.3. Contact your local Media and/or Technology Director for
the user name and password to access the item bank. Please
retain the security of this test to maintain its validity.
Other
fun sites that allow children to generate their own creative
products:
- PuzzleMaker,
by Discovery School, allows you to create and print customized
word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
Build your own maze or print specialty hand-drawn mazes created
around holidays and classroom topics.
- Certificate
Creator (requires Flash) Click on HOW TO USE
in the left margin.
- Media
Builder 3D
Text Maker.
Have
a hilarious time reviewing the parts of speech by sending students
to TIME
for Kids: Wacky Word-o-Matic! Scroll down
the page until you see the section on Wacky Word-o-Matic, and
then make your selection.
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"
Learn
how movement can increase learning in your classroom. 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.
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