Posts Tagged ‘projects’

Tech Tool: www.chartle.net

7, May 2009

Report problems to embedding@chartle.net I recently discovered chartle.net through some of the online communities I’m part of with other teachers. It’s yet another reminder of how many simple, free, and useful tools there are online. We’ve collected a lot of data this year. Hey, we do it all day long! How could you use a [...]

Poets and Problem Solvers

10, Feb 2009

The past week and a half have been filled with some wonderful student work. We’ve been doing a project-based learning unit on persuasive communication which calls for students working together to create new products and then plan to market them to the public. We had a special guest presenter today from our local cable company [...]

Getting Persuasive.

27, Jan 2009

This week, we have started our first project unit  of the third quarter: a study of persuasion.  The unit should be very relevant and rich, considering that contemporary life lends us so many persuasive messages to consider. Students will work in teams to research and plan an event, issue, idea, or product and then work [...]

Assignment List and Spelling Words

14, Dec 2008

This Week’s Assignment Checklist: Assignment Checklist for the Week of December 15  Spelling Words for the Week of December 15: <1. snore 2. tornado 3. spare 4. appear 5. career 6. square 7. report 8. prepare 9. pioneer 10. chair 11. beware 12. smear 13. repair 14. sword 15. ignore 16. order 17. engineer 18. [...]

Get Activ.

8, Dec 2008

Seth and Tyler – from the school district technology department – did a wonderful job installing our new ActivBoard interactive whiteboard last week. We were able to use it for the first time today and, already, it is completely changing the way I approach teaching. I am excited use the board to find new ways to [...]

Science Fair, Projects and Technology

3, Dec 2008

Wednesday Greetings to you! First, I must say that it was wonderful to see the wide range of creative science fair projects come through the door this morning. We have some highly original and inquisitive students. Students who did not bring their project displays or research packets today need to bring them first thing tomorrow [...]


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