Welcome to the MS Computer Lab Blog!

The objective of our blog is to share information about how we integrate our technology curriculum into the subject area curriculum. The foundation of this effort is the methodology of team teaching the lessons with the Middle School subject area teachers. Each post describes a particular lesson, the software used, some of the skills that were targeted, and the number of days that were spent in the lab.

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Monday, May 17, 2010

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.

Friday, May 14, 2010

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.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

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.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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.