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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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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Flash CS3 and Chemical Reactions

The 8th grade Science students used Flash to create models of different chemical reactions that they studied in recent lab activities. First they created symbols of the elements they needed and then made motion tweens to illustrate how the atoms recombined. The students also added buttons to navigate between movies. Finally, they narrated one of the movies with a recording that they made in GarageBand. This assignment took three class periods to complete.