Food Production in Different Countries

All the 6th Grade students did research on how different countries produce and consume food. Once they learned about their country, they worked in groups to create a multimedia presentation that answered the various research questions. This lesson took six 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.

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.

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.

Persuasive Speeches and Garage Band

Some of the 7th Grade Language Arts students wrote a draft of a persuasive speech. Then they polished that draft and recorded it in Garage Band. Finally they exported their persuasive speech as a podcast and dropped the file in their teacher's drop box. This lesson took three class periods to complete.

Osmosis Lab, Word and Excel

The 7th Grade Science students used Word and Excel to write up a lab they did in class about osmosis. This lesson took two class periods to complete.

Poetry and iPhoto, Word and GarageBand

The 6th Grade Language Arts students began this project by writing poems in Word. To those documents, they added photos that they edited in iPhoto. Later they recited their poems in GarageBand and exported them as podcasts. Finally, the students uploaded everything to their teacher's wiki. This project took four class periods to complete.

Five Pillars and Powerpoint

The 7th Grade Social Studies students used a webquest to research about the Five Pillars of the Muslim religion. Once they gathered the information, they created a Powerpoint which summarized their learning. This lesson took four class periods to finish.

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.

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.

Black Death Journal and Google Docs and Word

The 7th Grade Social Studies students did research on conditions in Europe during the Bubonic Plague. They recorded their notes in a document created and saved in their Google Docs account. From there, the students created a Word document that they formatted like a medieval journal or diary. Drawing from their notes in Google Docs, the students wrote about the plague from the point of view of a person living during that time period. This lesson took four days to complete.

Formal Lab, Excel and Word

Some of the 8th grade Science students used Excel to record experimental data, which they later graphed. Then they reported their findings in a Word document that they used to write their formal lab report. The lesson took two class periods to complete and the students used the portable lab so that they could record the data at the moment they were conducting the experiment.

Absolutism and Word

The 8th grade Social Studies students used a teacher made study guide to do research on absolute rulers in Europe. The students had to answer questions and find graphics, with which they made collages that explained certain concepts that were popular during this time period. The lesson took five class periods to finish.

Spanish as a Second Language and Word

SSL students used Word to write a poem that described a bird they had read about in class. The students practiced how to change the language of Word and how to type in accents. The lesson took two class period to complete.

Short Stories and Word

The 7th grade National Spanish students used Word to write a final draft of a short story that they had started in class. The students changed the language option in Word to Spanish and then were able to use the spell checker. The lesson took two class periods to finish.

Rocket Lab, Word and Excel

The 7th grade Science students used Word and Excel to write up a formal lab report about their Rocket Lab. The students recorded their data in Excel and then made a graph. Later they copied the data table and graph into the Word document they created for their lab report. The lesson took three days to finish.

Community Service Web Page and Dreamweaver

A group of middle school students is using Photoshop, Word, iMovie and Dreamweaver to record and publish the progress made by different house groups with their community service projects. This project will take six class periods to complete.

Current, Resistance, Word and Excel

The 8th grade Science students used Excel to record their observations in a lab that investigated current and resistance. Later, the students used Word to write up their formal lab report. This lesson took two periods to complete and made use of the mobile lab.

Bibliographies and Word

Some of the 6th grade Language Arts used an online citation service Easybib to create bibliographic entries for their research. These entries were recorded in a Word document. The lesson took two class periods to complete.