Researching Alcohol and Tobacco with Word and iMovie

The 7th grade students spent three days in the lab researching about the dangers of alcohol and tobacco by completing a webquest for each topic. On the fourth day of the unit, they were given two class periods to create a one to two minute iMovie that focused on one of the key questions that they needed to answer during the webquests. The students had to combine text, graphics and transitions (music was optional) to communicate their response to one of the key questions.

Renaissance and Dreamweaver CS3

The 7th grade Social Studies students created a website that explained the beginnings of the Renaissance. They used a Dreamweaver template, which they duplicated and customized to satisfy the lesson requirements of a thesis statement and three supporting arguments. In the end, students created four different webpages, all with text, graphics and a navigation bar. The navigation bar had rollover buttons and links which connected all the pages to one another. This project took about four visits to the lab to finish.

Angle Bisectors and Geometer's Sketchpad

The 8th grade Geometry students constructed triangles in Geometer's Sketchpad. Then they studied the relationships between the line segments that were created when an angle bisector divided the opposite side of the triangle into two segments. The students calculated proportions and made conjectures about these proportions as the vertices of the triangles were moved. This lesson took one class period.

Covalent Bonds and Flash

The 6th grade Science students used Flash CS3 to create an animation that showed the covalent bonds present in the H₂O molecule. They imported a movie clip with the oxygen atom (minus two electrons) and from there on they used guide layers, graphic symbols and motion tweens to reproduce the two hydrogen protons and the four missing electrons.

Trigonometric Ratios and Geometer's Sketchpad

The 8th grade Geometry students constructed an angle, CAB, and a line perpendicular to ray AB. Then they compared the ratios of certain line segments of the figure. They created a table in which they recorded the changes in the lengths of the line segments, every time they moved a certain point, D, up and down the perpendicular. Later they moved point C, which changed the measure of angle CAB. Later, the students moved point D again, and recorded the changes in a table. They also observed what happened to the different ratios, and from these observations, they wrote conjectures about the ratios.

Superhéroes y Illustrator

In the 6th grade national Spanish class, the students wrote a short character profile for a superhero that they created. Then the students went to the computer lab and made a poster with a logo for their superhero. Later they added information for characteristics that included the superhero's real name, their superhuman powers and their origins. The students worked on this assignment during two class periods.

SSL1 and Word

The students in Spanish as a Second Language 1 (SSL1) created advertisements or posters, and in the process they reinforced their understanding of the verbs: buscar, vender, and comprar.