Technology
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- Canadian Social Studies
Technology & Globalization
$16.99 Add to cartEnter a world run on technology and find out why disparities exist between developed, developing and underdeveloped nations.
Our resource helps students comprehend the process of globalization through technology. Write a screenplay about an inventor whose work influenced globalization through advancement in technology. Organize a fair to showcase different modern communications technologies that help people around the world stay connected and exchange information. Design a survey to find out information about how students and their families use internet technology. Design your own transportation system and create a brochure to share the information with travelers. Create a timeline of important events that led up to people’s ability to use electricity in their homes and other buildings. Explore how advances in space technology have impacted globalization. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom’s Taxonomy, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
- Electives
Teaching Technology
$19.95 Add to cartGrade(s): 3-12+
Pages: 74Teaching Technology Through Interest Projects, developed over six years by a classroom teacher, is a fun, highly effective method for teaching Internet research skills and presentation technology to students. The book provides easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidance for the teacher/parent and student, and includes online access to instructional materials for classroom demonstration. Students love the activities because they get to create a dynamic presentation on a topic that interests them. Interest Projects work great in all types of classrooms: regular, gifted, or homeschool. The lessons and activities can be taught by grade level or in multi-age classrooms.
Concepts and Skills:
- PC and Mac file storage system
- Microsoft® Word
- Mac Pages
- Open Office Writer
- Microsoft® PowerPoint
- Mac Keynote
- Open Office Impress
- Windows® Live Movie Maker
- iMovie
- Photo Story 3 for Windows®
- Scratch
- Grade Assigned
Learning About Transportation Grade 1
$30.99 Add to cartPlanes trains, cars, and ships! Explore the exciting world of vehicles while practicing a wide range of skills including phonics, word study, creative writing, research, reading, association, critical thinking, and classification.
36 Activities.
96 pages.
- Kids Books
The Incredible Work of Engineers with Max Axiom
$30.15 Add to cartMax Axiom has a mission. The National Space Agency wants to build a lunar colony, but it needs a team of top-notch engineers to get the job done. Join Max as he scours the globe to learn about incredible engineers and the amazing things they do.
- Physics
The Future Architect’s Handbook
$26.10 Add to cartFor children with a passion for drawing, or dreams of creating buildings, this book explores how architects really work, taking the young reader through the entire process for planning and designing a house. Learn about an architect’s four main drawings: the Site Plan, Floor Plan, Section, and Elevation–including the concept of drawing each plan to scale. Aspiring architects discover design techniques, along with different, exciting architectural styles used today. All of this is brought to life in freehand, pen-and-ink architectural drawings that will inspire children to apply these lessons to their own designs. This book is the perfect introduction to architecture, revealing why buildings look and function as they do. While this creative book is ideal for the middle grades, ages 9-12, even adults will find it inspiring.
- Kids Books
Simple Machines
$10.95 Add to cartThirteen experiments about the six simple machines — the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge and screw — teach kids about basic science. Full-color photographs and step-by-step instructions clearly explain each activity, so that kids can make the most of the machines with minimal help from adults. Part of the Starting with Science series, Simple Machines encourages children to have fun as they learn basic science and fills a need for primary-level science resources.
- Science
Robotics: Smart Machines Science Kit
$189.95 Add to cart- This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics that lets them build eight motorized machines.
- Requires a tablet or smartphone
- Using the app interface, you can program the robots you build to behave based on the feedback coming from the ultrasound sensor.
- Health
Robotics
$11.95 Add to cartThe robots of today do more than just heavy lifting. Machines that can sense the world and make decisions are now being used in space, industry, medicine, and the military. This adventurous book follows the development of robots over the past century and describes how modern robots continue to revolutionize different fields making our lives easier, healthier, safer–and more exciting.
