Food Production in Different Countries

All the 6th Grade students did research on how different countries produce and consume food. Once they learned about their country, they worked in groups to create a multimedia presentation that answered the various research questions. This lesson took six class periods to complete.

IDU and Dreamweaver

All the 8th Grade students used a variety of software to create a multimedia presentation that communicated their thesis statement about a particular controversy that is present in the society. This lesson took eight class periods to complete.

Microcuentos in SSL and Premiere Pro

Some of the SSL students wrote a microcuento (100 word story) and then recorded the story. Later they added graphics to illustrate the plot. This lesson took six class periods to complete.

Topics in SSL, Word and Inspiration

The SSL students used Word or Inspiration to complete their semester assessment, which was a writing assignment appropriate to the SSL level of their class. Some students had to write a biographical piece about someone in their family, and others had to write about an interview that they made. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

Thermometer Angle and Excel

The 6th Grade Science students used Excel to graph the data from their experiment on whether the angle at which a thermometer is placed in relation to a heat source has an effect on the temperature readings of the thermometer. This lesson took one class period to complete.

Science Research and Online Databases

The 8th Grade Science students used some of the online databases to which the school subscribes to do research for their interdisciplinary project (IDU). They saved their research notes and constructed their bibliography in a Google Docs document that they shared. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

Hatchet and Illustrator

After reading the novel, Hatchet, some of the 6th Grade Language Arts students used Illustrator to draw a picture of a scene that showed one or more of the book's conflicts. The lesson took three class periods to complete.