Computers

Your children may come into contact with computers in their individual classrooms, a computer center in their school, in their school library, or in their neighborhood public library.

Select a question below to learn more about computers. Use the navigation to the left to learn about other technologies.

1. How many computers are there in schools and libraries?
2. Are all computers the same?
3. Are computers used only in certain subject areas, like mathematics?
4. At what grade level will my child starting using computers?
5. Can my child break a computer?
6. How does a computer actually work?

Are computers used only in certain subject areas, like mathematics?

On the contrary: computers are being used in virtually all subject areas in elementary and secondary schools. To see just a few examples of computer uses in the various subject areas, click on the areas of interest below:

Mathematics

Los Alamos National Laboratory
MegaMathematics
http://wwwc3.lanl.gov/mega-math/

Swarthmore College
Ask Dr. Math
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

Alan A. Hodson
Math Magic on the Web
http://mathforum.org/mathmagic/

Social Studies

National Park Service
Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/

Education World
We're In the Money: Lessons for Teaching About Money
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson298.shtml

What you Need to Know About Geography
http://geography.miningco.com/

Science

University of North Dakota
Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

The Black Inventor Online Museum
Take a look at this innovative museum about black inventors, from ENC Online is a K-12 math and science teacher center.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,028919,00.shtm

Language Arts

PBS
African Arts and Music
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/tools/music/goals.html

Library of Congress
American Life Histories
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

ArtsEdge
Look in the Mythic Mirror
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3341/mythicmirror/

Health

New York Times Learning Network
All choked up by smoking statistics
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/19981119thursday.html

Awesome Library
Health
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Health.html

Physical Education

ERIC
Heart Rate and Exercise
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Anatomy/ANA0201.html

PE Central
Physical Education Lesson Plans
http://pecentral.org/lessonideas/pelessonplans.html

Vocational Education

Water Management, Inc.
Toiletology 101
http://www.toiletology.com/index.shtml

ETCAI Products
Educational Software for Electrical and Electronics Training
http://etcai.pair.com/index.html

Arts

Library of Congress
America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictires from 1894-1915,
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlhome.html

The Kennedy Center
The Visual Arts: Picasso
http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/donq/connections/visual/picasso.html

PBS
Jazz
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/

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