Riddle of the Bones and Science

The 8th grade Science students accessed a PBS interactive website to read and answer questions about fossils. Their teacher shared the study guide via her class folder on the student server and the students saved a copy of the document to their own server accounts where they wrote the answers. The lesson took two class periods to complete.

Dar and iMovie

The 6th grade Language Arts students used iMovie to create a video. The video was based on a storyboard that they created which summarized the main events of the story. Some of the students used Photoshop to create a title slide which showed some of the flora and fauna that existed in the time of Dar. This project took five class periods to finish.

Surveys and Excel

The 6th grade Math students used Excel to record data from a survey. Later the students graphed the data in different ways to compare the effectiveness of certain graphs. This lesson took two class periods to complete.

Essay Writing and Criterion

The 6th and 7th grade Language Arts students logged on to their user accounts at Criterion, an online writing program and responded to a prompt given to them by their teacher. The teacher can adjust the settings for the due date and the maximum number of submissions that can be made before the final evaluation. If the teacher so desires, the students can receive permission to log on to their accounts at home to continue editing their assignment.

Aleks, the Online Math Program

Some of the 7th grade Math students are involved in a pilot program where they do lessons with an online math program, Aleks, that charts their progress from day to day. The students usually meet in a regular classroom with the laptop cart and after a short introduction from their teacher, they work independently (from the other students) for the remainder of the class in their online account.

Scatter Graphs and Excel

The 7th grade Science students used Excel to graph the relationship between the fluctuations in the prey and predator populations over time. The students used line graphs to display their data and this lesson took two class periods to finish.

El Pozo and Flash

The 7th grade national Spanish students used Flash to create an interactive book report of the short story El Pozo. The report included buttons which linked to a short summary, information about the author, descriptions of the main characters and setting. This project took four class periods to complete.