During the Middle School Health Week, the 7th Grade Science students used Photoshop to create an advertisement for healthy life choices. Students researched healthy and unhealthy choices that they might make, and then followed a model in making their own advertisement concerning the options researched. The lesson took three class periods to complete.
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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, November 27, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Isosceles Trapezoids and Geometer's Sketchpad
Special Parallelograms and Geometer's Sketchpad
Egyptian Obituary and Inspiration
The Outsiders and Photoshop
Optics and Flash
The 7th Grade Science students used Flash to create a model that showed how light rays behave when they are reflected and when they are refracted. This project took four days to complete.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Egyptian Webquest
The 6th Grade Social Studies students accessed a webquest that was made available to them via their teacher's shared folder, and they researched the questions on the internet. Later, the students dropped the completed document into their teacher's drop box. One of the classes shared the webquest via Google Docs. The lesson took two class periods to complete.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Congruent Triangles and Geometer's Sketchpad
The 8th Grade Geometry students used Geometer's Sketchpad to study the relationships between congruent triangles. The lesson took one class period.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Constantinople, Google Docs, Fireworks and Dreamweaver
The 7th Grade Social Studies students did research on the ancient city of Constantinople and kept their notes in their Google Docs account. These notes became the text for the different pages in their website. Later they created graphics in Fireworks, which they added to the website that they constructed in Dreamweaver. The students also used Google Earth to capture views of the area from different altitudes. The lesson took four class periods to complete.
Click on the image below to see an example of the web site that the students had to build.
Click on the play button below to see a high speed version of the last tutorial movie for this lesson.
Click on the image below to see an example of the web site that the students had to build.
Click on the play button below to see a high speed version of the last tutorial movie for this lesson.
DVD Sales and Excel
The 8th Grade Algebra students used Excel to examine the relationship between cost, sales price and profit. They entered the corresponding formulas in Excel and then used the fill tool to project how many DVD players a business would have to sell to make a profit. The lesson took one class period to finish.
Sentence Structure and Excel
Meiosis and Flash
The 8th Grade Science students used Flash to create a model that illustrated how the cells and chromosomes regroup and divide to create the sex cells. The students worked with symbol creation, motion tweens and shape tweens to construct the four different scenes of the animation. The project took three class periods to create.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Electromagnetic Waves and Filemaker Pro 9
Monday, November 2, 2009
Chilean Environmental Issues and Powepoint
The 6th Grade Science students did research on a topic related to the Chilean environment. They used a variety of sources, including Wikipedia, Google, and the EBSCO online databases to find information. Once they had information, the students built a powerpoint presentation, according to the teachers' rubric. Students who researched a native Chilean animal like the pudĂș or the vizcacha, were able to include a simple food web exported from Inspiration.
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