Learn how to use Atomic Learning to get just-in-time answers to your "how do I do that?" software questions.
Log on to Atomic Learning.
- Type in your netTrekker username and password.
Find what you need:
- The navigation bar makes it easy to navigate around the Atomic Learning website.
- The search box is to find your software questions, just type in your question and click on go.
- The main body of the home page is for technology news and updates to Atomic Learning.
- The column on the right is for featured tutorials, Lesson Accelerators and customer comments.
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Sample "Lesson Accelerators"
Teacher2Teacher
Teacher2Teacher offers technology training developed for teachers by
teachers, designed to dissolve barriers to use technology easily and
effectively. Teacher2Teacher activities illustrate how to incorporate
software into existing curriculum. Each activity provides:
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detailed instructions
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sample projects
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student planning sheets
Use the classroom activities with your students or use them as a "getting started" resource for lesson plans you create.
Sample Teacher2Teacher Lesson Plans:
Tutorials for our Online Resources
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With "AL" at your side you don't have to know everything about software to integrate technology into your curriculum.
Reading This month, our children will be focusing on TEK 4.12: Recognizing and analyzing plot, setting and problem resolution. This first week, our class is focusing on setting. Setting is usually defined as where and when a story takes place. But in 4th grade, they will not only identify the time and place of a story, but will be expected to explain and understand how it contributes to the meaning of the story. For example, if a story takes place in a forested area, the reader would need to be able to explain how the story is affected by the forest and how (and if) it might change if the story took place in a different environment. Once the students have learned about setting this week, look for questions about setting in their homework center next week.
Language Arts Language Arts is divided into two main components: editing and composition. This week and for the next couple of weeks in editing, we will be focusing on TEK 4.16, capitalization, punctuation and penmanship. In particular this week, the use of commas. There are nine times when commas are used in the English language. 1.) To separate items in a list, 2.) to separate city and state, 3.) to separate date and year, 4.) after the salutation of a letter, 5.) the closing of a letter, 6.) to separate two complete sentences connected by a conjunction, 7.) to separate a quote from the rest of the sentence, 8.) after directly addressing a specific person in a sentence, and 9.) when using an appositive (Mrs. Rubert, a teacher at Desertaire Elementary, had very high standards for her children).
Spelling skill for this week: "i before e except after c" and "ei" making the long a sound. Words: receipt, believe, conceit, siege, neighbor, reign.
In composition, we are studying TEK 4.15C, using language to describe (figurative language). In particular this week, we are learning about similes. When a person uses a simile, they compare two unlike things using the words "like" or "as". For example, your child might be described as being "as sweet as honey". During this week and into next week, our children will be exploring the effectiveness of the similes they choose. Our children learn not to "force" similes into their work, but to have them flow smoothly into the language where it contributes to the overall meaning they are trying to convey.
Math This week, we have been studying number concepts, TEK 4.1, using place value to read, write, compare and order whole numbers through the millions place. In particular this week, our children will be expected to place 7 digit whole numbers into ascending and descending order. Our children will be given a list of four numbers that they will have to put in order, greatest to least and vice versa using a place value chart.
Science TEK 4.1A, demonstrating safe practices during field and laboratory investigations is our focus for this week. We will begin by identifying scientific tools, such as graduated cylinders, goggles, thermometers, etc. and how to safely handle them. Ask your child for their list of tools (a page with pictures of tools and their use), or see the "You gotta have this" section of this web page for an uploaded version that you can keep for yourself.
