Using a Computer As Part of Your Ninety Minute Block

If you have only one computer in your classroom, you might

• Pretest students and allow students who are already familiar enough with what you are working on to work on one of the millions of curriculum projects and/or assignments already on the web and waiting for them.
• Use your computer to review students who are behind. We can find remedial work on practically any topic.
• Put your notes in PowerPoint and allow students who have been absent to work through the presentation(s) to catch up.
• Create multiple activities dealing with your study area, and make your computer station one of the areas of the topic. In student groups, students will cycle through all stations.
  Ex:
  Station 1: researching topic in textbook and completing a question page. (Add own questions or information also)
  Station 2: adding information from encyclopedias or reference books from the library.
  Station 3: finding additional information from reputable websites. You might provide links to help searching.
  Station 4 (construction area): making visual, which might be a drawing, model, bulletin board area, etc.
  Station 5 (presentation area): Students will construct a PowerPoint presentation, with all students responsible for areas of the presentation to the class.
• Allow students who missed CPS presentation to take test or quiz individually.
• Check out the SmartBoard, projector, laptop, CPS system, Promax, etc., and have a great interactive lesson!!
• Construct PowerPoint Jeopardy games for reviewing before a test (or previewing before teaching). Check out a projector to play the game.
• Reserve the library, where you may have all students involved on assignments involving technology at one time.