Ancient India and Photoshop

Some of the 6th Grade Social Studies students used Photoshop to create a poster that detailed different aspects of the ancient Indian society. This project took three class periods to complete.

Facebook Summer Reading and Word

The 6th Grade Language Arts students used Word to create a mock Facebook page for a character from their summer reading program. Their task was to communicate the character's personality in the typical Facebook format. The lesson took four class periods to complete.

Online Science Textbook

The 6th Grade Science students used a webquest to explore their new online textbook. The lesson took one class period to complete.

Chilean Independence and Google Docs

Some of the 8th Grade Social Studies students reviewed concepts about Chilean Independence that they later uploaded into Google Docs to share with their teacher. This assignment took three class periods to complete.

Medieval Fair, Google Docs and Photoshop

The 7th Grade Social Studies students began this project by spending five days in the lab doing research that answered questions to a webquest. Students used Google Docs to share documents with their team members and then proceeded to complete the research.

Once they finished, students used Photoshop to create graphics that would serve two purposes: decorate their booth, and explain to visitors how their medieval group lived during that time. This part of the project took four days.

Compost Lab, Word and Excel

The 6th Grade Science students used Word and Excel to write up the results of a lab that they did in class over the course of the semester. The lab write up took two class periods to complete.

Egypt, Fireworks and Dreamweaver

The 6th Grade Social Studies students studied the culture of Ancient Egypt and focused on the Egyptians' view of the afterlife. The students had to imagine how it would be to leave their individual legacies in a pyramid to be viewed by future generations, and, with that idea in mind, they wrote an essay on how their lives might be. Later, they chose different hieroglyphics that described aspects of those lives. Finally the students used Dreamweaver and Fireworks to create a five page website that was built around these different hieroglyphics related to their personality. The tech aspect of the project took five class periods to complete.