Improving Student Thinking and Learning With Databases

Text Box: Improving Student Thinking and Learning With Databases Text Box: “We know from brain research that students need to see patterns and connections. And if they have no way to make sense of this massive amount of information that's coming at them, they tend to get confused. It just becomes traipsing over trivia.”
Lynn Erickson, author and consultant

Materials
The session PowerPoint		Practice database: survey of smokers
The session overview handout		Practice database: presidents
Primary grades database project directions: animals		Secondary grades database project directions: presidents

Links for the Primary Grades Project: Animals
Click here for the project template
Wildlife Search	PBS: Critter Guide		Graph Club
Especies Fact Sheet	World Almanac Online		Wild Texas
Animal Bytes	Endangered Species		Classifying Animals
National Geographic Animal Facts	The National Zoo		Biomes

Tutorials	Project Ideas
Excel Tutorial	The Time 100 Could be basis for a great project
Access Tutorial	Sample Social Studies Lesson: Wants and Needs
MS Works Tutorial	First Grade Math Sample Lesson
Information Age Inquiry	Sample Lesson: Recycling
Related Articles	What Is The Concept? Sample science lesson
It Begins With Good Instruction from ASCD	Health: Carbohydrates
Strategies For Developing Concepts	Fiction vs. Non-Fiction
Questions That Build Thinking Skills	Discovering the Pythagorean Theorem
What is Constructivism?	Multiplying Integers
Bruner and Constructivism	Other
Jerome Bruner	Why Use Databases with Students?
Concept Attainment and Hilda Taba	Concept Attainment Planning Steps