The One Computer Class

One Computer for Your Personal Productivity

[ Lesson Plans ] [ Worksheets and Puzzles ]

Lesson Plans (return to top)

Blue Web 'N (all ages)
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
A collection of "blue ribbon" learning sites on the web.  Click on the Content Table link for a super collection of lesson plans.

Technology Integration
http://chaucer.chesterfield.k12.va.us/Admin/Instructional_Technology/ElemLCI/integrate.htm 
A collection of technology lessons that have been integrated into classroom curriculum.  The collection is divided into elementary, middle school, and high school categories.

TeachersFirst Lesson Contest Winners
http://www.teachersfirst.com/winlist-f.htm
Great technology integration lesson plans for all ages.  Click on the Content Matrix link at the top of the left navigation bar.

Free Worksheets and Puzzles (return to top)

Puzzlemaker 
http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Build your own maze or print our specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics.

Internet Coach Puzzle Center
http://www.apte.com/puzzles/
This site allows you to create puzzles to print or to work online.  You will need to register in order to create an account.  This will allow you to save and edit the puzzles you have created.  There is also a section for sending electronic greeting cards.

School Express Free Worksheets
http://www.schoolexpress.com/
From this site you can print free worksheets that you can reproduce for your class.  Other areas on this site include a curriculum websites and free educational software ready to download.

Awsome Library Worksheets
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Worksheets/Worksheets.html
This site contains ready-to-print reproducible worksheets and handouts in a variety of content areas and a variety of level.

Certificate Creator
http://www.certificatecreator.com/
Certificate Creator is the Internets' first site that allows you to customize the generation of certificates for school, business or personal use to be printed out on your own printer!  There are currently 38 prebuilt certificates to choose from and customize in 5 different categories.

One Computer as a Presentation Tool (return to top)

Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Tutorial
http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorial/classroom/ppt97/default.asp
In and Out of the Classroom with Microsoft® PowerPoint® 97 is a practical guide for teachers and administrators. The PowerPoint presentation graphics program can stand alone or be used as a part of Microsoft Office 97. PowerPoint 97 is powerful and intuitive. You can create classroom presentations, grant proposals, and lesson plans that can provide you and your students with state-of-the-art instructional materials.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Tutorial
http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorial/classroom/o2k/ppt.asp
With PowerPoint 2000, you and your students can make learning more dynamic by creating presentations of classroom materials and projects. You can use graphics, text, movies, sounds, and the Internet to share information on any topic. Using PowerPoint 2000 templates, you can quickly and easily create presentations for many purposes, including lectures, research reports, meeting handouts and agendas, speaker introductions, and flyers.

One Computer and Interactive Group Software (return to top)

Tom Snyder Productions
http://www.tomsnyder.com/
A wonderful resource for interactive group software.  Software is available in a variety of content areas and for all levels.  Tom Snyder has a 45 day preview policy.  The Eighth Floor also has a large number of Tom Snyder software available in our preview center, available during designated Open Lab sessions.

Inspiration Software
http://www.inspiration.com/
This site provides information on ordering and using Inspiration software.  Also available, is a download for a 30-day free trial of Inspiration.

One Computer as a Learning Station (return to top)

TrackStar
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/
TrackStar is an on-line interface that helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) into lessons. The list of resources acts like a table of contents and remains visible throughout the lesson allowing the user/student to easily browse through the lesson and stay on track. 

Classroom Management Strategies (return to top)

That's Not a Drinking Fountain -or- How to Survive in a One Computer Classroom
http://www.ncrtec.org/digi/onecomp/

Strategies for the One Computer Classroom
http://www.learnsol.com/onecompt.html

Surviving in the One-Computer Classroom: Computer Management Issues
http://www.techtrain.org/curriculum/1c_mngmt.htm

Ideas for the One Computer Classroom
http://www.danenet.wicip.org/mmsd-it/tlc/1comprm.html

Planning for the One Computer Classroom
http://www.methacton.k12.pa.us/training/planint.htm