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MS Classroom Corner This section of Microsoft's website includes ready-to-use ideas, activities, lesson plans, and more - designed for the classroom teacher. We have selected a few favorites to share. Visit the site for frequent additions! Creating a Personal Slide Show (42kb)Find and Replace Activities (28kb) Descriptive Cards (52kb)Making Words Stand Out (28kb) Designing Bookmarks (101kb)Translate MS Word Text (70kb) Drag & Drop Feature Activities (56kb)Using the Letter Wizard (26kb) Draw a Snowflake (37kb)Using the Thesaurus (26kb)

Your teacher will read The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg to the class. You will be able to see the images projected on the screen. After we have read and discussed the images we will go to the computer lab to do the following activities.  Look around the Chris Van Allsburg website.  When you finish looking around the site go to the section "About Chris". Choose frequent questuins.  Read the questions and the answers. You might use the printer friendly version, it's a little easier to read.  You can ralso ead some answers to questions that kids have asked Chris Van Allsburg here. After you hear the story you are going to look at the images online; choose one and write a short story about it. After you write your story you can choose the links below to look at "solved" mystery stories others have written.   1. Solved Mysteries 2. Lafayette School California3. More Solved Mysteries4. Solved Mysteries Indiana

INTRODUCTION So, you're still getting those 1,670,000+ responses to your search queries on the Web, and you're still too busy to do anything about it, like reading the lengthy, and sometimes confusing, "help" screens to find out how to improve your searching techniques. Look no further! Real help is here, in the USCB Library's BARE BONES Tutorial. You can zip through these lessons in no time, any time. They are very short and succinct; each can be read in a few minutes. Feel free to jump in wherever you like, skip what you don't want to read, and come back whenever you need to. The information contained in the following lessons is truly "bare bones," designed to get you started in the right direction with a minimum of time and effort. For more comprehensive and detailed help on searching the Web, consult our recommended list of sites in Lesson 20 at the end of this tutorial.

Now we have the opportunity to be connectors, to bring our classrooms to the world in a variety of ways. We can find other teachers who may know more than we do. (Secret Life of Bees)

Periodic Table - Invisible buttons are used on slide 2. There are 109 invisible buttons on one slide. Take a look!