Spanish Webquest and Word

The 6th grade national Spanish students used this teacher made webquest to research for information about a particular poet. The students accessed this file from a shared folder on the server, renamed and saved a copy of the webquest into their own home directory, and upon completion, they dropped a copy of the webquest into their teacher's drop box. This lesson took one class period to complete.

Cultural Universals and Indesign

Some of the 6th grade Social Studies students used Indesign to create a booklet on cultural universals. They added text, graphics, page numbers and page borders. The students also created a title page with a gradient. This project took three class periods to complete.

Flash CS3 and Chemical Reactions

The 8th grade Science students used Flash to create models of different chemical reactions that they studied in recent lab activities. First they created symbols of the elements they needed and then made motion tweens to illustrate how the atoms recombined. The students also added buttons to navigate between movies. Finally, they narrated one of the movies with a recording that they made in GarageBand. This assignment took three class periods to complete.

Earthquake Statistics and Excel

The 7th grade Math students used Excel to analyze data from two different countries which experience high seismic activity. They used formulas to calculate the mean, median and mode. Later they compared different graph types to see which ones were more effective at displaying the data visually. They also created a box and whiskers graph and a histogram. After the statistical analysis, the students had to write formal letters that tried to convince a foreign investor to begin business operations in one country instead of the other, based on the analysis. This lesson took five class periods to complete.

Lab Reports, Powerpoint, Excel and Word

The 6th grade Science students used a teacher prepared template, which they accessed from a public folder, in order to write up a formal lab report about magnesium with hydrochloric acid. They used Powerpoint to make a diagram of the atomic structure of the elements involved in the lab. The students used Excel to graph their findings. Once they finished the assignment, they had to drop the completed work in their teacher's drop box. This lesson took two class periods.

Different Types of Faults and Sketchup

The 7th grade Science students used Google Sketchup to make models of three different types of faults (slip-strike, reverse and normal) that they have studied in this unit. The students created components that they were able to copy, which saved them time in completing the overall project. This project took approximately one and a half days of class.

Choose Your Own Adventure and Inspiration

Some of the 6th grade Social Studies students worked in teams to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story that they saved in their Google Docs account. Once they finished with the story, they created pages in Inspiration. When all the team members were finished with their parts of the story, they saved copies of their pages in their public folders. From there, all the team could access the pages that they were missing, and they saved a copy of the other pages into their own Choose Your Own Adventure folder. Once all the documents were obtained, then every team member, linked all the pages together so that it read like a "Choose Your Own Adventure". Finally, when all the links were working, the students exported the project as a web site into their sites folder, and from each student's individual sites folder, their teacher can evaluate their efforts. This lesson took about five days to complete.

Story One (Once you arrive to the page, scroll down to the text)

Story Two

Story Three