Integrating Technology for Science Classes
Technology Teaching Strategies for Grades 7 through 12
Productivity Software
As a science teacher, you realize that with all of the different assignments, experiments and reports that you use to teach your classes, it is vital to have tools and software to help you save time, create sessions and help with classroom productivity. This page explores some of the options available to you.
Productivity Software for Science Highlight: Discovery Channel Site

It is always nice whenever someone has a resource or a piece of software that can help a teacher accomplish a set of goals for his or her class. Most of the time you or your school will have to purchase software from a vendor. However, there are many good online pieces of software and tools that you can use to help you save time and sweat.

Integration Strategy: The Discovery Channel Site

The Discovery Channel This site has a series of free programs (software) on their site that can really help a science teacher and one of the best features of this site is the fact that these productivity tools are free. These tools are perfect for science teachers that are front of the 7th through 9th grades and they are very easy to use. There are three main software tools that this site has for free that are an excellent resource for teachers; The Worksheet Creator, The Lesson Plan Creator and the Quiz Generator.


Relative Advantage: The main advantage of all three pieces of online productivity software allow teachers to save tons of time by giving them an interface that is so easy to use that they are irresistible. With the Worksheet Creator, teachers can easily put together worksheets for their students in a very short period of time and design them for whatever science lessons that they have. The Quiz Generator is an excellent resource because not only can you create these quizzes for printing out but you can have your students take them online and the Discovery Channel site will grade them for you automatically! This is an excellent advantage for the students as well because the students can see their grades immediately.


Expected Outcomes: Savings of time as well as the ability to use an easy interface to create the documents quickly. Also, teachers can use these tools online to save time and effort. The system has an automatic grading system that will allow you to see the grades immediately after they have been taken. This gives students feedback on how well they performed on quizzes almost as soon as they are finished taking their quizzes

Resources and Links for Productivity Software: Of course, there are other resources that you can purchase for your own productivity and I have provided links for those below.

Net OP School - This is an online subscription site that gives a teacher all sorts of time saving resources and tools. This service helps teachers that use technology to teach their clas`ses prepare, administer and evaluate their classes activities with just about any remote device.

Efofex Software Their masthead reads, "saving mathematics and science teachers time". This software allows you to quickly create mathematical diagrams and produce scientific and mathematical equations for your classes very quickly.

Net Support School This is software that will help you work with students in a computer network environment