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It's all about them!: Students will create a class database in preparation for the North Carolina Test of Computer Skills using information about their classmates.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Computer/Technology Skills); By Skip Thibault.

Favorite restaurant database: Students will be able to show their ability to independently create a database.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer/Technology Skills); By Elizabeth Everitt.

Tracing the Titanic tragedy: Students will learn about the Titanic disaster as a historical event by reading informative articles and books and by use of the Internet. They will then produce a database of passengers with information about them and use the database to analyze the information.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies); By Elizabeth Harren.

Election time using a database: Students, working in groups, use various resources to answer prepared questions about the candidates. Students will enter their data into a prepared database. With teacher guidance, students will learn to use the database to find information.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and Social Studies); By Lee Yahnker.

Election time database: After using various methods of researching information, students will create a database and use it to answer questions about the current election. At the conclusion, students will create a poster or Hyperstudio presentation of their findings.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Computer/Technology Skills and Social Studies); By Lee Yahnker.

Books we've read: This lesson plan creates a classroom database collecting information on books that students have read over a period of time determined by the teacher and/or students. By sorting and filtering, students evaluate the data and can later create other products from their findings.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and Information Skills); By Mary Rizzo.

Tools of the trade for information seekers: A guide to understanding and using search engines, directories, and the invisible web.; Format: article; By Melissa Thibault.

Discovering elements online: Students will work independently and in small groups to research assigned elements on the internet with sites given in advance. They will then contribute to a class database with their individual information. The database will then be made available for students to again work independently and in pairs to answer questions created from a class discussion to discover relationships about the elements.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science); By Trish Loudermilt.

Get real!: When teaching computer proficiency to at-risk students, make classroom lessons relevant to their lives and take account of different learning styles.; By Skip Thibault.

Nutritional value unit integrated with Microsoft Works: This unit is an example of how to integrate technology into the curriculum to alleviate teaching it in isolation. Students will use Microsoft Works to compare and analyze nutritional values from nonperishable food items.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics); By Gretchen Parrish.

Periodic table database: These lessons are designed to help students use their computer skills to create their own database using teacher directions, and they also learn how to read the periodic table and understand what it means.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Computer/Technology Skills and Science); By Florence B. Winslow.

Holiday shopper: This activity uses a prepared spreadsheet and the grocery sales paper from the newspaper to figure the cost of a holiday meal for a certain number of people.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Computer/Technology Skills); By Stephanie Hurley.

Weather conditions database: Students will search and sort various fields of a given database file.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 ); By DPI Integration Strategies.

Information literacy: not just for students: Good Internet research skills are important for teachers, too. This article provides an introduction to "information literacy" concepts and a list of references for teachers and media specialists.; Format: article; By Diane Kester.

About LEARN NC: LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, provides lesson plans, professional development, and innovative web resources to support teachers, build community, and improve K-12 education in North Carolina.; Format: article/help

State Library of North Carolina: Find information about the library and its many services and resources. Conduct genealogical research, investigate higher education institutions, find NC statistics, and more. Contains a digital project featuring African-American schools in the post-Civil War era.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

North Carolina regional travel brochure: The students will cooperatively design travel brochures that describe major physical and cultural characteristics of the regions in North Carolina.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Deborah Harrell.

The Shark Net: A discipline database: The Shark Net is a database, set up by the teacher, where students keep records of all discipline interactions, of leaving the room, and of outstanding work. It includes fields for first name, last name, date, block, problem code, comments by students, time out, and time in. At two-week intervals students filter their records to calculate class participation grades. The class participation grade counts 10 percent of the total class grade. Students with the highest-class participation grades are rewarded with special activities such as ice cream parties, cookouts, field trips, etc. Students are required to filter and print the report for progress reports, report cards, and any time a parent/teacher or student/teacher conference is planned. This activity helps the teacher keep an accurate discipline record and to maintain discipline with minimal effort. It also helps the students understand how to use a database.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills and Guidance); By Calvin Evans.

Integrated unit on South America: This lesson includes information concerning database operations, word processing, desktop publishing, and spreadsheet formatting. Students will solve math problems.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Development, Mathematics, and Social Studies); By DPI Integration Strategies.

Local authors database: Search through more than 200 authors in 15 minutes to answer specific questions. Add records and fields to an incomplete database.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills); By DPI Integration Strategies.

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