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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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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Medieval Fair, Google Docs and Photoshop

The 7th Grade Social Studies students began this project by spending five days in the lab doing research that answered questions to a webquest. Students used Google Docs to share documents with their team members and then proceeded to complete the research.

Once they finished, students used Photoshop to create graphics that would serve two purposes: decorate their booth, and explain to visitors how their medieval group lived during that time. This part of the project took four days.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Compost Lab, Word and Excel

The 6th Grade Science students used Word and Excel to write up the results of a lab that they did in class over the course of the semester. The lab write up took two class periods to complete.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Egypt, Fireworks and Dreamweaver

The 6th Grade Social Studies students studied the culture of Ancient Egypt and focused on the Egyptians' view of the afterlife. The students had to imagine how it would be to leave their individual legacies in a pyramid to be viewed by future generations, and, with that idea in mind, they wrote an essay on how their lives might be. Later, they chose different hieroglyphics that described aspects of those lives. Finally the students used Dreamweaver and Fireworks to create a five page website that was built around these different hieroglyphics related to their personality. The tech aspect of the project took five class periods to complete.