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.

Guatemala and Photoshop

After the 6th grade National Spanish students read a story that took place in Panajachel, Guatemala, they used Photoshop to create a poster that described the people, places and products of Guatemala. The students used a variety of selection tools to add content to the main document. This lesson took two classes to complete.

Rock Types and Filemaker Pro

The 8th grade Science students created a database where they organized information about different rock samples that they had to identify. They created fields, value lists, and inserted pictures. The lesson took three days to complete.

The Scientific Method and Photoshop

Some of the 6th Grade Science students used Photoshop to create a poster which detailed some of the steps in the Scientific Method. Students used different layers, gradients and several of the selection tools. The students took three days to finish this assignment.

Points and Geometer's Sketchpad

The 8th grade Geometry students used Geometer's Sketchpad to study the behavior of points on a line. This was an introduction to the software and took one class period to complete.

Transformations and Geometer's Sketchpad

The 8th grade Geometry students used Geometer's Sketchpad to construct triangles and then rotate or translate them, according to a series of conditions. The students took one class period to complete this assignment.

Autobiographies and iMovie

The 7th Grade Language Arts students culminated their study of figurative language by creating an iMovie that described themselves with similes and metaphors. Some of the tech skills required were to place text over the video, and to put in their voice recordings and some music. When finished, the students had to export their movie to a compressed format and drop it into their teacher's drop box.