Many school districts are seeing a need to introduce technology education to students at the elementary level. Pennsylvania's Penn Manor School District is one of them. Pennsylvania has updated science and technology standards for grades 3-8, and after several conversations the author had with elementary principals and the assistant superintendent…

This article describes one "Technology's Past" activity that the author and his students find both fun and rewarding. The author assigns the activity in all of his classes every nine weeks. He has also found that the activity works well for use with substitute teachers and with specific columns in conjunction with particular fields. (Contains 1…

This article details the many benefits of educators' use of digital camera technology and provides an activity in which students practice taking portrait shots of classmates, manipulate the resulting images, and add language arts practice by interviewing their subjects to produce a photo-illustrated Word document. This activity gives…