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As part of Search Education, Google has shared a bunch of lesson plans that are organized by degree of difficulty. So, if you consider yourself and / or your students Google experts, you should try out the more advanced plans. If you don't know what 'boolean' means, then you probably should start with the more basic stuff. The following are just some of the many lesson plans brought to you by Google.

A new studio classroom inspired excitement and motivated productive feedback from early faculty and student users

Traditional computing labs need to transform into flexible, technology-enhanced learning spaces. Initial research into space use and future needs can guide design and resource decisions. Involving all the stakeholders invests them in the outcome and optimizes design choices. Small changes can have big effects in redesign of existing spaces.

Pi™ Computer Tables- Classroom Collaboration for LCD Systems and Laptops! Built on the geometry of circles, not rectangles, Pi™ Computer Tables nest together in organic arrangements found in nature. This unlocks infinite possibilities for team computing groups.

A sample proposal for a 21st century skills emphasizing learning lab.

Another design proposal for a multipurpose computer lab.

programming interactive manipulative for primary students

A non-computer programming lesson

"I have been using Scratch, a drag and drop programming language developed by researchers at MIT, since November 2007. I am quite excited about its potential for teaching other skills besides programming. I have set up this wiki to build-up a course for beginner programmers."

More resources for using Scratch in lessons

Lots of lessons for learning how to program with Scratch

Interactive SQL tutorials

This free typing tutor teaches you how to touch-type. Once you can touch-type you will not need to look at the keyboard to find the letters you want to type. The program comes in three versions: Standard, Accessible and Spanish. Use the menu on the left to navigate to the version you are interested in.

Good Typing is a free online typing skill development program. Good Typing provides 27 graduated lessons designed to help students learn to use their entire keyboards correctly. Unlike some free online typing programs, Good Typing offers support twenty different keyboard styles including US style, Japanese style, and several European languages.

Typing Web is one of those tutorials that provides instant feedback after every free typing lesson. Typing Web offers beginner through advanced typing lessons for free. You can register to track your progress or you can use Typing Web without registering.

These competencies address the skills and knowledge about technology necessary for library work. This competency set also addresses the role of providing access to and educating the user in the use of technologies and equipment relevant to information seeking, access, and use.

ZOMG! Like the Scratch programming application, but runs in your browser and on mobile devices!

Shared by Jim Gates, who is awesome sauce.

Since MIT's Lifelong Kindergarten group released Scratch in 2007, kids ages 8 to 13 have built more than 2.2 million animations, games, music, videos and stories using the kid-friendly programming language. Scratch allows kids to snap together graphical blocks of instructions, like Lego bricks, to control sprites-the movable objects that perform actions. Sprites can dance, sing, run and talk. Now, with a grant from the National Foundation of Science, Lifelong Kindergarten is collaborating with Tufts University's DevTech Research Group to make Scratch Jr, a new version aimed at kids in preschool to second grade. The expected launch date is summer 2012.