Let students create their writing assignment in a word process like Kid Works 2 that will read the writing to them. By providing the auditory reinforcement, students will be able to hear their grammar errors and correct them.

Students can use the Internet to research the geographical location and time period of the piece of literature they are studying. They might even connect with classes from a school in the geographical area being studied for online interviews. After completing the research the students can use a desktop publishing program like AppleWorks or g to produce a newspaper from the location and time period of the literature. The paper can include articles about actual historical events during that time period.

During a research project, students should keep a biographical data base of their resources that includes categories for rating the value of each resource. After the research is completed, students can do an analysis of the resources the class used including most frequently types of resources and the value of those resources. Pie charts, line graphs and bar graphs can be created to help in the analysis.

While using software like Civilizations II or Ancient Civilizations or Colony Quest, students should role-play one of the leaders of the society by keeping a diary, writing letters, conducting meetings and making predictions as that person. These can be compared to real societies.

Using one of the CD Atlases, students can develop scavenger hunts for each other. For example, if a class is studying eastern Europe, students might write questions about the highest mountains, longest river and capitol cities of various countries or regions.

Using a CD-ROM or laser disk about earthquakes or volcanoes or hurricanes, show the students a picture of the scene after the disaster. Ask them to look for clues in the picture that would help them understand how the area looked before the disaster. Then show them the picture of the area before the disaster. Give them plenty of time to discuss the changes and show both pictures often. Point out specific places in the pictures that changes drastically because of the natural disruption. For example, show a picture of the fallen trees from the Mt. Saint Helen eruption and then show the forests before the eruption. Students might make a list of everything they observe in the pictures and then compare the lists.

Geometric Supposer and The Geometry of Solids can be used to explore geometric theories. Geometric Supposer allows students to draw shapes in the work space and explore the properties of those shapes. The Geometry of Solids lets the students enter the virtual world of geometric solids, ‘walk around’ those solids, gather data about these solids and formulate explanations based on those explorations.

Select an idea that the students are going to study such as vertebrates. Then select a series of pictures from a laser disk or CD-ROM, some pictures with vertebrates and others without vertebrates. As the pictures are shown, tell the students that the picture does or does not illustrate the theory. After a few of these, share your idea and see how many students guessed it.

Using software like Adobe Premiere, ask students to create a multimedia presentation that demonstrates a selected period of time. Have them select pictures of art, music, and costumes from the time period and organize these visual aides around subtitles that they have created to chacterize their perception and conclusions such as ‘Knees revealed’ for the Roaring Twenties. Their finished product can be shared with parents and other classes.