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Below are just a few of the great technology lessons that I have found.
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Cyberbullying With all the the different types of technology that I have started to use in my classroom, including blogging, and all of the technology my students use at home (facebook) I felt that talking about internet safety would be a good lesson. The CyberSmart! curriculum offers internet safety lessons for all grade levels and has a wide variety of topics including, Cyberbullying, Manners and Cybercitizenship, and Safety and Security online. Most lesson plans have an activity for the students to complete and many have a home-school connection as well.

Native American Stories One of the topics we study in Social Studies each year are the various Native American Tribes that settled throughout North America. This site has many great Native American Stories that are PowerPoints. They PowerPoints are designed really nicely so that kids will enjoy viewing them. My students work in cooperative groups to prepare a presentation on one specific tribe. I think it would be great if they could also use these PowerPoints and read one of the Native American Stories to the class as part of their presentation.

Factoring PowerPoints and Games I found these PowerPoint lessons to be very useful for the current chapter I am working on with my fifth graders in math. The PowerPoints include lessons on: explaining factor trees, prime numbers, and prime factorization. There are also links to games that students can play as a follow up to the lesson that was taught using the PowerPoints. The PowerPoints are engaging and clearly explain the process step by step. The games are very interactive and do a great job reinforcing the skill that was just taught. This would be a great site to link to a classroom website so that students who are absent can view the lesson from home.