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The objective of our blog is to share information about how we integrate our technology curriculum into the subject area curriculum. The foundation of this effort is the methodology of team teaching the lessons with the Middle School subject area teachers. Each post describes a particular lesson, the software used, some of the skills that were targeted, and the number of days that were spent in the lab.
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Current Events in Science
6th Grade Science students used the EBSCO online data base, (to which Nido subscribes) to research about any current event in Science that interested them. The students practiced choosing appropriate keywords and narrowing down their topic with a directory search. The students also searched by the lexile scores of the articles to eliminate documents that were beyond their reading level. Once they had found an article they liked, the 6th Graders used Word to write a short summary that they later presented to the class.
