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Keywords: Mini laptops, technology
Subject(s): Video, Social Skills, Technology, Life Science, Writing, Animation, Reading, Earth Science, Information Skills, Biology, Photography, Social Studies, English/Language Arts, Spelling, Grammar, Science
Grades P-K through 5
School: Jonathan Valley Elem School, Waynesville, NC
Planned By: Roxana Brestle
Original Author: Roxana Brestle, Waynesville
Objective: Students will learn how to make relevant web searches on the Internet while saving their data in order to create their own multimedia presentations.

Activities:

1. Teacher will project a kid friendly Internet web search engine (http://kids.yahoo.com/learn, http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/, http://wwlw.kidsclick.org/, http://kidskonnect.com/, http://www.askkids.com/)
2. Students will look up information on a topic given by the teacher, for example, solar energy.
3. Students will copy and paste information, images, video and audio clips related to the topic on their desktop computer.
4. Students will also copy and paste the web address that each piece of data was taken from.
5. After all research has been completed in the allotted time, students will then create their own multimedia projects using PowerPoint.
6. Students will share their PowerPoint presentations with other classmates.

The ease or difficulty of this lesson plan will be related to the capabilities of the grade level that the student is in. This project may take days to weeks to complete depending on the difficulty of the material.
Comments
Students will need five mini laptops so they can complete this activity in cooperative groups.
Cross-Curriculum Ideas
This lesson plan can be used with any subject matter.
Follow-Up
Students may update their research on a weekly basis adding information to their multimedia projects.
Links: Link to Yahoo search engine
Link to Kid Space search engine
Link to Kids Click search engine
Link to Kids Konnect search engine
Link to Ask Kids search engine
Materials: Whiteboards
Other Items: 5 Compaq - Presario Laptop / AMD V-Series Processor / 15.6" Display, $329.00 each, total of $1645.00