Poetry and iPhoto, Word and GarageBand

The 6th Grade Language Arts students began this project by writing poems in Word. To those documents, they added photos that they edited in iPhoto. Later they recited their poems in GarageBand and exported them as podcasts. Finally, the students uploaded everything to their teacher's wiki. This project took four class periods to complete.

Literary Terms and Premiere Pro

The 7th Grade National Spanish students had to identify various literary terms in the context of poems that they were reading in class. Once they had identified the terms, they made a movie where they used different styles to highlight the terms in the poem. Later, the students made the text scroll from bottom to top, added graphics and music. Then they exported the movie and dropped the finished product into their teacher's drop box. This project took three class periods to complete.

Book Recommendation and Glogster

The 6th Grade Language Arts students created an account with an online poster site, called Glogster. Once their account was linked to the teacher, the students created a poster that recommended a book they were reading or had recently read. This lesson took two class periods to complete.

Globalization and Word

Some of the 8th Grade Social Studies students searched for images that they used to create a collage that explained concepts about globalization, which they are currently studying. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

ALEKS Online Math Program

One section of 6th Grade Math is participating in a month long pilot which uses the online math program called ALEKS. ALEKS has also been used with a section of 7th Grade Math students and with a Resource Center class.

Grammar and Google Docs

The 8th Grade National Spanish students copied an excerpt from the newspaper, El Mercurio and pasted it into Google Docs. Then they shared that excerpt with their teacher. Once that step was completed, the students used a color code to identify different grammatical structures in the excerpt. This lesson took one class period to complete.

Earthquake Research and Filemaker

The 7th Grade Science students used Filemaker and the USGS site to examine earthquake activity around the world. First the students created a data base with Filemaker and then they imported a CSV file with almost 60,000 earthquakes that have been recorded since the 1970's. Later, they used Filemaker to sort and search the data, looking for patterns with the longitude, latitude, magnitude and depth. The lesson took four class periods to complete.

Five Pillars and Powerpoint

The 7th Grade Social Studies students used a webquest to research about the Five Pillars of the Muslim religion. Once they gathered the information, they created a Powerpoint which summarized their learning. This lesson took four class periods to finish.