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Concept mapping

• LA: students use visual and print organizers to develop and arrange ideas and information.
• LA: students organize information and planning ideas through outlining, webbing, mapping and other prewriting strategies.
• Math and science: students communicate the solution to a problem or explanation of a particular concept with a supporting diagram.
• Social studies: students construct mind maps, flow diagrams, and other graphical representations of family genealogy or of goods and services flowing among communities.

Multimedia

• LA: students enhance presentations by using multimedia presentation software, such as PowerPoint or HyperStudio, incorporating visual and sound clips.
• Science: students create a series of graphic images to show changes in a tree over the school year, or to illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly.
• Social studies: students use copy and paste techniques to maps of China and Western North America to create an image of the Pacific Rim.
• Science: students use a scanner or digital camera to import graphics or data into a report or database.

Internet

• LA: students use critical thinking skills when accessing current information about a variety of research and personal-interest topics using online sources.
• LA: students evaluate, authenticate and document sources of information.
• LA: students use Internet bulletin boards, chat lines and email for activities such as sharing writing and communicating with others from neighbouring and distant locales.
• LA: students use search engines on the Internet to access and retrieve data for research projects, identifying relevant information and gaps in information.
• Math: students access current and realistic data for use in classroom activities.
• Science: students participate in live research taking place in the field such as the MT. Everest Climb, the Amazon Jungle Trek, and the Mars Mission.
• Social studies: students use the Internet to study news and current events.
• Social studies: students communicate electronically with students in the U.K., France, or the U.S.A. to explore mutual issues or to analyze problems and benefits of international interactions in sport, tourism, media, etc.

Spreadsheet

• Math and science: students produce documents that incorporate a combination of written explanations, tables, graphs, diagrams or mathematical expressions in order to communicate understanding.

Database

• LA: Students enter poems that they have written. Possible fields include type, author, characteristics, grade, date, and pictures. It allows students to explore, construct, visually illustrate, and share their poems with students and others.

Software

• LA: students use critical thinking skills when accessing current information about a variety of research and personal-interest topics using CD-ROM's.
• Math: students use software, such as Graphers, Graph Club, Mosaic Magic, Tenth Planet, TesselMania and Logical Journey of the Zoombinis to explore various mathematical concepts.
• Math: students use various types of simulation software, such as Hot Dog Stand, Sim City, Sim Farm and Sim Tower to practice problem solving, reasoning and pattern recognition and to explore complicated relationships at an intuitive level.
• Science: students demonstrate an understanding of wheels, gears and levers by constructing devices in which energy and motion are transferred using Lego Dacta.
• Science: students use CD-ROM reference materials to obtain information on scientific topics.
• Social studies: students use software to simulate a journey in early Canada in which they build a canoe, choose a route, develop rules for the grouop, and so on.