Category Archives: Tech in the Classroom

As in previous years US History students took a trip this trimester to Boston. They spent the day walking along the Freedom Trail and, in groups, documenting the tour by taking pictures and movies with their iPads. Once back in school they had … Continue reading →

A project that Freshmen complete every year in their Conceptual Physics course is designing and creating cars that are raced down a ramp and measured for speed and distance travelled. Students design their cars completely using Tinkercad to create parts to be printed on the 3D … Continue reading →

To wrap-up the academic year here is a compilation video showing off the breadth and depth of technology integration projects completed this year using the iPads, Chromebooks, the two computers labs and the 3D printer. Most of the projects included … Continue reading →

Students were assigned a decade beginning with the end of WWI to the modern day. With that specific time period, students gathered information on specific people, places and things (actual things or events) that had a significant impact at that … Continue reading →

Throughout the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Behavior course students examined, discussed and attempted to rationalize horrendous events in human history. Genocide, ethnic cleansing and slavery; racial, religious and gender supremacy, terrorism and collateral damage. The goal was to encourage students … Continue reading →

Using the new Google Sites, for their end of year exam Spanish I students created cultural websites based around a Spanish speaking country of their choice. The sites had to contain a page covering the basic information about their country, a … Continue reading →

Inspired by a previous post, for their culminating project American Literature students had to create a class portfolio of their writings from the year. Using a WordPress blog students had to submit ten pieces of class work complete with an … Continue reading →

During the last couple of weeks of school Biology students’ final project was to design and plant a digital garden. Students designed their garden as a means to learn about plant structure and function. They produced a detailed 2D design of their garden using either … Continue reading →

Honors Geometry students spent the latter part of the winter term working through a unit on similarity. As an extension of this unit, they worked through a project on 2-dimensional scaled floor plans and 3-dimensional models during one of the … Continue reading →

Grade 6/7 Art students recently completed a 2D animation project using a combination of their Chromebooks and the iMacs in the library computer lab. The students started off by storyboarding their ideas to plan out the narrative of their animations. They … Continue reading →