Category Archives: Tech in the Classroom

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. This year we decided that students should design their cars completely using … Continue reading →

On a recent trip to Boston, US History students spent the day walking along the Freedom Trail and documenting the day by taking pictures and movies with their iPads. Once back in school they had to work in groups to put together … Continue reading →

To learn about, and in celebration of, the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival, Ms. Hemmings’ Spanish 1 class recently completed a multimedia project based around the topic. This included creating 3D Sugar Skulls using the 3D printer, as well … Continue reading →

This week in the Freshmen Skills class students took part in a workshop on Google search skills. This included a discussion on different search engines available and an introduction into how Google actually works when you hit the search button – a good … Continue reading →

Spanish 1 students have just started a project based around the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival. One important aspect of this festival is creating and decorating calaveras (sugar skulls), which for this project we did using our new … Continue reading →

Last year, thanks to a generous parent donation, the school was able to purchase a MakerBot Replicator 3D printer to be housed in the old Math Office. This machine allows us to print physical recreations of 3D models designed and drawn using software tools like … Continue reading →

French V students read L’Automne by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869). In this beautiful poem, the poet compares the loveliness and sweet sadness of autumn to the twilight of his own life. One particularly moving stanza includes the lines, “I would … Continue reading →

In World Religions, we wrapped our section on Hinduism up with a week long project on Hindu gods.  The class was split into three groups; each group then spent two days together in the library learning how to use online … Continue reading →

The main goal of the US History Comic Life project was to allow the students to express their understanding of the relationship between the Wampanoag people and the Puritan settlers from the first contact through the devastating impacts of King Philip’s War. … Continue reading →

During the Freshmen Skills class this week students were introduced to note-taking on the iPad, using Notability. The students were shown a TED talk on YouTube and for 5 minutes they had to take notes by typing into a Notability … Continue reading →