Ann Stephenson : HTITITC

Ann Stephenson's article How-To: Incorporate New Media into Your Classroom: Teaching a Unit Using a Variety of Technology, Teachers Network. shows an example of how to create an interactive learning activity that spans a nine week period.
Her activity involves cross curricular activities that reinforce the use of different pieces of technology. It involves the subjects math, science, and social studies, in combination with researching, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, digital graphic manipulation and scanning activities. The use of the Internet is a necessity for the research they need to do, as well as applying other computer applications to add to the understanding of the material.
The students need to research a countries and then they need to research the climate and geography create a menu for that country. They then need to create a business plan and organize a spreadsheet to submit to a "bank" for approval for funds (math). They also need to write a report on why that particular country chooses, or can, to cook that type of food.
I think the activity is a worth wile one that can contribute to the students knowledge of computers as well as the topic area.

http://www.teachersnetwork.org/ntol/howto/incorptech/variety.htm