Using Word, write a report that shows the changes in one character's attitude toward or feelings towards another.
	Using the Internet or a drawing program, find or create pictures that represent different parts of the book.  Include descriptions from the novel.
	Use Excel or Word to create a chart or essay that shows the lessons learned from the book, as well as the most important thing(s) you learned from this book.
	Use Word to design a graphic organizer that has two major sections: fact and fiction.  List at least eight facts and eight fictional elements you find in the novel.
	Create a Power Point presentation that expresses your understanding of one of the major themes in the book.
	Write an interview with one of the major characters.
	Create a mini-dictionary to help other students who read the novel.  Include phonetic pronunciations, brief definitions, and pictures when possible.
	Create a Power Point or Hyperstudio presentation using several quotations from the novel that are meaningful to you.  Combine the quotations with illustrations in a collage or display.
	Write an appropriate title for each chapter in the book.  Make a table of contents, which includes titles, and display it on a poster.
	Retell an event in the story from another character’s point of view.
	Express an important idea from the novel in a song.  You might use an existing melody or create your own.
	Use Time Liner to diagram events from the novel.  List the passages from the book that that coordinate with the events in the Timeline.
	Use Mapmaker to create a map of the setting of the novel.
	Create an editorial or editorial cartoon that expresses your opinion about a contemporary situation related to an issue in the novel.
	Present a radio broadcast about a main event from the novel.  You might include sound effects and interviews in which characters from the book give their        reaction to the event.
	Prepare a virtual time capsule using Inspiration.  Include items that represent the main events.  Explain why each item was included and what it represents.
	Design a movie poster advertising a contemporary film version of the book.  Make the poster look different from the cover design of the novel.
	Act out a scene from the novel.  Record your scene using video or digital         camera.
	Imagine that some of you are television reporter, interview one of the characters on camera for the news.  Record your interview and share the news report with the class.

If you are looking for a way to integrate technology into your lesson plans, the teachers of Charleston County have compiled a list of lesson plans organized by software application.   

Health teachers and math teachers alike will like this lesson idea on nutritional values of fast food restaurants.  You can find links to various fast food restaurants on-line.  Your students can visit the sites of their favorite fast food restaurants and use Excel to figure out the calorie, carbohydrates, and total fat grams of their favorite meal.  Students can compare meals from different restaurants and make adjustments to their meals to make them more healthy.  Comparing the nutritional values before the changes are made and after they are made can be an eye-opening experience for our students!

Feeling stagnated with your students' progress with multiplication facts?  Why not use the palms to beam them a list of facts.  They can solve the problems and then beam them to another student or the teacher for checking!  If you don't have a class set of palms why not put your multiplication facts on a power point and use it as flash cards or have contests to see who can correctly complete the most!

We have all probably heard of using M & M's to teach probability, but why not dust off that old lesson and put a modern twist to it.  Go ahead, make your predictions.  Let your students count the actual numbers.  But instead of getting out the crayons and graph paper.  Why not let them graph their data using excel.  Why not take it further and have them visit the official M & M website and compare their findings with those of others around the nation!

Technology in Education is a wonderful site with over one hundred ideas for integrating technology into education.

An online scavenger hunt is a fantastic and easy way to integrate technology into your lessons.  Provide your students with a list of questions related to the topic you are teaching.  Your students must find the answers to the questions by searching the internet.  Your students' computer skills will be your guide on how much assistance you provide.  If you prefer more control, you can use an interactive Word document.  The interactive Word document does the same thing as a scavenger hunt, only it allows the teacher more control over where the students travel online.  Using a word processing program, type up the questions you want the students to be able to answer.  Then make one of the key words a hyperlink to a site that contains the answer to the question.  You can provide your students with a hard copy of the activity on which to record their answers.  Only have one computer in the classroom?  Make this a reward for finishing early.  Your students won't even know they are learning!

	In the good old days teachers dutifully contacted another classroom to teach their students writing skills while learning about children from another part of the country or even the world.  Today, we can easily take that concept to a whole new level.  Many sites provide opportunities for your students to have internet pen pals.  Now, not only are they learning writing skills and learning about people from another part of the country, they are also learning valuable technology skills.  Visit some of the following sites to set up your classes e-pen pals.
	http://www.siec.k12.in.us/west/slides/penpal/index.html
	http://www.epals.com