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Ramondetta, June – Learning, 1993
Elementary students can investigate U.S. geography and exercise critical thinking and research skills by compiling a computer database on state facts and figures. As they research and work, they develop their own questions to ask and answer and make thoughtful hypotheses about how and why facts may be related. (SM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Database Design, Databases, Elementary Education
Thomas, Rick – Computing Teacher, 1988
This discussion of the design of data files for databases to be created by secondary school students uses AppleWorks software as an example. Steps needed to create and use a database are explained, the benefits of group activity are described, and other possible projects are listed. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Database Design, Database Management Systems
