Timeline: 2 to 4 class periods
Description: Students will create and design a database that catalogs the inventons of African-Americans. Then they will analyze, search, sort, and print appropriate formats.
Objectives:
- To build a database customized to meet specific needs
- To analyze and manage a database
- To reasearch the Internet for specific information
- To gain knowledge of black inventors and inventions
TEKS: 120.23. Business Computer Information Systems I
- (2) The student selects appropriate technology to address business needs.
- (5) The student applies database technology. The student is expected to:
- (A) differentiate the nature and interrelationships of fields, records, and files in databases;
- (B) perform data management procedures, including:
- (i) locate, sort, and organize data;
- (ii) search and query data;
- (iii) retrieve data; and
Prerequisite Skills:
- Knows how to browse / search the Internet
- Knows database terms and concepts
How to Begin:
- Ask students how that keep track of important information.
- Have students discuss the advantages of electronic databases vs paper methods.
- Provide a glossary of database terms.
Recommended Web Sites:
- http://www.swagga.com/inventors.htm
- http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/AWARE/archives/invent.html
- http://www.ai.mit.edu/~isbell/HFh/black/events_and_people/009.aa_inventions
- http://www.littleafrica.com/resources/inventors.htm
These pages were made through TeacherTECH, the teacher professional development component of GirlTECH, which is sponsored by the Center for Excellence and Equity in Education (CEEE) with support from the National Science Foundation through EOT-PACI, RGK Foundation, the Verizon Foundation, Rice University, and HiPerSoft.
Copyright © June 2002 by Chandra Jones.
