Microcuentos in SSL and Premiere Pro

Some of the SSL students wrote a microcuento (100 word story) and then recorded the story. Later they added graphics to illustrate the plot. This lesson took six class periods to complete.

Topics in SSL, Word and Inspiration

The SSL students used Word or Inspiration to complete their semester assessment, which was a writing assignment appropriate to the SSL level of their class. Some students had to write a biographical piece about someone in their family, and others had to write about an interview that they made. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

Thermometer Angle and Excel

The 6th Grade Science students used Excel to graph the data from their experiment on whether the angle at which a thermometer is placed in relation to a heat source has an effect on the temperature readings of the thermometer. This lesson took one class period to complete.

Science Research and Online Databases

The 8th Grade Science students used some of the online databases to which the school subscribes to do research for their interdisciplinary project (IDU). They saved their research notes and constructed their bibliography in a Google Docs document that they shared. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

Hatchet and Illustrator

After reading the novel, Hatchet, some of the 6th Grade Language Arts students used Illustrator to draw a picture of a scene that showed one or more of the book's conflicts. The lesson took three class periods to complete.

The Pearl and Illustrator

All the 8th Grade Language Arts students used Illustrator to create a scene from the novel The Pearl. The scene had to have some elements of symbolism. This lesson took four class periods to complete.

Reformation and Word

All the 7th Grade Social Studies students used the publishing layout in Word to create a newspaper report of some of the historical events that took place during the Reformation. The lesson took four class periods to complete.

Parthenon and Google Sketchup

All the 6th Grade Social Studies students created a 3D model of the Parthenon, which they later animated and exported as a short movie. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

Geometric Shapes and Sketchup

Some of the 6th Grade Math students constructed different geometric shapes with Google Sketchup. The students took two class periods to complete the assignment.

Electricity and Online Simulations

Some of the 8th Grade Science students used the PhET Interactive Simulations site to answer questions posted by their teacher. This lesson took two class periods to complete.

Mitosis and Powerpoint

The 7th Grade Science students made a seven slide presentation of the different stages of cell mitosis. They used various drawing tools to create the slides. This project took five class periods to complete.

Chemical Reactions, Excel and Word

Some of 8th Grade Science students used Word and Excel to write up the results of a lab that they did in class. The lab write up took three class periods to complete and the students used the mobile lab to record data and do the lab report while they were in the science lab.

Body Systems and Dreamweaver

All the 7th Grade Science students used Fireworks and Dreamweaver to create a four page website that gave information about a human body system that they researched. This lesson took five class periods to complete.