Spanish Poetry and Illustrator

The SSL2 students used Illustrator to create a poster which had graphics and a diamond-shaped poem. The students also used a scanner to digitize the drawings that they included in the project. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

Parallel Lines, Transversals and Geometer's Sketchpad

The 8th Grade Geometry students used Geometer's Sketchpad to construct a transversal to two parallel lines. Once all those lines were constructed, the students measured the angles formed and then made conjectures about the different types of angles. The lesson took one class period to complete.

Food Webs and Inspiration

The 7th Grade Science students used Inspiraton to create a complex food web that included decomposers, producers and composers. The project took four class periods to complete.

The Water Cycle and Flash

The 6th grade Science students used Flash to create a model that showed how the water cycle works. Students used several of the drawing tools to create the background for the project. Later, they constructed motion tweens to animate the different symbols that represented the water vapor and the rain. Finally they exported the swf file and dropped it into their teacher's drop box. The lesson took three and a half class periods to complete.

Core Democratic Values and Powerpoint

While working in groups of two, the 8th grade Social Studies students used Google Docs to gather research about the core democratic value that they had to explore. Once they had enough information, they created a Powerpoint to accompany their oral presentation. This lesson took five class periods to complete.

Fairy Tales and Indesign

The 6th grade Language Arts students used Indesign to create an eight or twelve page booklet of an original fairy tale that they wrote in class. They formatted the text, added borders, pictures and printed the booklet, using the back to back option. The lesson took about three class periods.

Short Stories and Word

The 7th grade National Spanish students used Word to write a final draft of a short story that they had started in class. The students changed the language option in Word to Spanish and then were able to use the spell checker. The lesson took two class periods to finish.

Geological Layers and Sketchup 7

The 8th grade Science students used Google Sketchup to create a cross-section of different geological layers with examples of formations that they have studied in class. Students used various navigation tools, such as zoom, pan and orbit, in order to complete their assignment. Students took two days to complete the lesson.

Rocket Lab, Word and Excel

The 7th grade Science students used Word and Excel to write up a formal lab report about their Rocket Lab. The students recorded their data in Excel and then made a graph. Later they copied the data table and graph into the Word document they created for their lab report. The lesson took three days to finish.

Guatemala and Photoshop

After the 6th grade National Spanish students read a story that took place in Panajachel, Guatemala, they used Photoshop to create a poster that described the people, places and products of Guatemala. The students used a variety of selection tools to add content to the main document. This lesson took two classes to complete.

Rock Types and Filemaker Pro

The 8th grade Science students created a database where they organized information about different rock samples that they had to identify. They created fields, value lists, and inserted pictures. The lesson took three days to complete.

The Scientific Method and Photoshop

Some of the 6th Grade Science students used Photoshop to create a poster which detailed some of the steps in the Scientific Method. Students used different layers, gradients and several of the selection tools. The students took three days to finish this assignment.

Points and Geometer's Sketchpad

The 8th grade Geometry students used Geometer's Sketchpad to study the behavior of points on a line. This was an introduction to the software and took one class period to complete.

Transformations and Geometer's Sketchpad

The 8th grade Geometry students used Geometer's Sketchpad to construct triangles and then rotate or translate them, according to a series of conditions. The students took one class period to complete this assignment.

Autobiographies and iMovie

The 7th Grade Language Arts students culminated their study of figurative language by creating an iMovie that described themselves with similes and metaphors. Some of the tech skills required were to place text over the video, and to put in their voice recordings and some music. When finished, the students had to export their movie to a compressed format and drop it into their teacher's drop box.