IDU and Dreamweaver

All the 8th Grade students used a variety of software to create a multimedia presentation that communicated their thesis statement about a particular controversy that is present in the society. This lesson took eight class periods to complete.

Topics in SSL, Word and Inspiration

The SSL students used Word or Inspiration to complete their semester assessment, which was a writing assignment appropriate to the SSL level of their class. Some students had to write a biographical piece about someone in their family, and others had to write about an interview that they made. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

Science Research and Online Databases

The 8th Grade Science students used some of the online databases to which the school subscribes to do research for their interdisciplinary project (IDU). They saved their research notes and constructed their bibliography in a Google Docs document that they shared. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

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.

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.

Lightning and Flash

The 8th Grade Science students used Flash to create a model of how lightning works. They used a movie clip and a variety of scenes to demonstrate friction and induction. The lesson took three class periods to complete.

Surface Areas, Volumes and Excel

The 8th Grade Geometry students used Excel to create formulas for surface area and volume of different 3D figures. Then they compared the ratio of the surface area and the volume, and drew conclusions from the different measurements that they tried. This lesson took one class period to complete.

World Explorers and iMovie

All the 8th Grade Social Studies students worked in groups and wrote scripts about specific historical events related to their unit on World Explorers. These scripts were written in Google Docs. Later the students acted out the scripts and filmed the scenes. Their video was captured with iMovie and then edited according to the teacher's specifications. In each group, some students recorded separate audio tracks in Garage Band that were later imported into iMovie. This project took 8 classes to complete.

Chemical Reactions and Flash

All the 8th Grade Science students used Flash to animate a decomposition reaction. After practicing with that reaction, the students had to compose their own reaction, and animate it. This lesson took five class days to complete.

Wiki and Spanish Vocabulary

The 8th Grade National Spanish students used the teacher's wiki to access a vocabulary assignment that she had posted. This lesson took one class period to complete.

Globalization and Word

Some of the 8th Grade Social Studies students searched for images that they used to create a collage that explained concepts about globalization, which they are currently studying. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

Grammar and Google Docs

The 8th Grade National Spanish students copied an excerpt from the newspaper, El Mercurio and pasted it into Google Docs. Then they shared that excerpt with their teacher. Once that step was completed, the students used a color code to identify different grammatical structures in the excerpt. This 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.

Solving Linear Inequalities and Grapher

The 8th Grade Algebra students used Grapher to graph the solution region for a set of linear inequalities. The lesson took one class period to complete.

Isosceles Trapezoids and Geometer's Sketchpad

The 8th Grade Geometry students used Geometer's Sketchpad to to study different kinds of trapezoids. The lesson took one class period to finish.

Special Parallelograms and Geometer's Sketchpad

The 8th Grade Geometry students used Geometer's Sketchpad to study the relationships between the angles and the sides of different parallelograms. The students took one class period to finish the assignment.

The Outsiders and Photoshop

The 8th Grade Language Arts class used Photoshop to create a collage that explained the personality traits of one of the characters from the novel. The students took three class periods to complete the task.

Congruent Triangles and Geometer's Sketchpad

The 8th Grade Geometry students used Geometer's Sketchpad to study the relationships between congruent triangles. The lesson took one class period.

DVD Sales and Excel

The 8th Grade Algebra students used Excel to examine the relationship between cost, sales price and profit. They entered the corresponding formulas in Excel and then used the fill tool to project how many DVD players a business would have to sell to make a profit. The lesson took one class period to finish.

Meiosis and Flash

The 8th Grade Science students used Flash to create a model that illustrated how the cells and chromosomes regroup and divide to create the sex cells. The students worked with symbol creation, motion tweens and shape tweens to construct the four different scenes of the animation. The project took three class periods to create.