Current Events in Science

6th Grade Science students used the EBSCO online data base, (to which Nido subscribes) to research about any current event in Science that interested them. The students practiced choosing appropriate keywords and narrowing down their topic with a directory search. The students also searched by the lexile scores of the articles to eliminate documents that were beyond their reading level. Once they had found an article they liked, the 6th Graders used Word to write a short summary that they later presented to the class.

El Pozo and Powerpoint

The 7th Grade National Spanish students read the short story, El Pozo, and then did an analysis of the different elements of a short story. For this unit, the Spanish classes used the mobile lab and did all the work with Powerpoint inside their classroom.

Characterization and Inspiration

The 6th Grade Language Arts students used Inspiration to create a graphical representation of how a character expresses his or her personality throughout the story. This lesson took one class period.

Online Newspaper in Dreamweaver

The 8th Grade National Spanish students spent two weeks in the computer lab, composing an original online newspaper with fictitious news stories. They used Dreamweaver to organize the different sections and concentrated on efficient networking between team members in order to meet the deadlines. One person in the team acted as the webmaster, receiving and linking the html documents from the reporters/writers/graphic artists who produced the material.

Excel and Frequencies

The 6th Grade Math students used Excel to examine the differences between decimals, fractions and percentages.

Mean, Median and Mode

The 6th Grade Math students used Excel to calculate different statistical measures of different groups of numbers.

Radio Theater Script and Google Docs

The 8th Grade Social Studies students were divided into groups in order to present a play in "radio theater" format which explained different historical events that surrounded the beginnings of the Chilean or the American governments. During the first stage of this unit, the students researched their questions and wrote the script treatment and the actual script collaboratively in Google Docs. Once they finished, they downloaded their scripts as Word documents to photocopy for hard copy scripts. The students took six class periods in the lab to complete this stage of the process.