To Kill a Mockingbird

Students in Ms. Salazar's 8th grade Language Arts classes are reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.  She offered extra credit opportunities for the students, and one of their options was to use smore.com to advertise anything about Maycomb, Alabama, as it is portrayed and described in the novel.  Here are two samples made using the website smore.com.

Reviewing "To Kill a Mocking Bird"

Ms. Salazar's students reviewed their knowledge of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" by answering questions in teams about the book using Socrative.  Ms. Salazar used the results to remind students of important details of the novel and gave them opportunities to tell what they thought certain details might be important as the story develops.  Students were thoroughly engaged with the activity and are ready to continue in their student of this classic novel.

Geometry Gets Flipped!

Students in Mrs. Rutherford's class get to take her home with them through the videos she creates and posts online.   Her YouTube Channel is full of instructional videos that explain the concepts they are learning in class.  She has also found videos from the textbook site to help supplement the instruction. She sends out the link to the videos and reminders to watch through Remind101.   Students watch the videos and take notes before they come to class and then spend class time clarifying what they do not understand and working through problems with their teacher there to help answer questions.

Here is a sample video Mrs. Rutherford posted for her students:

Students Developing Apps

Last week students attended a week-long, before school camp where they began learning how to create apps for mobile devices with the help of the MIT App Inventor website.  Students worked through a series of tutorials that taught the skills and strategies needed to begin designing their own apps.   They were very excited to try out their newly developed program on the tablet and see their code in action.

Students Get Graphic with Infographics

8th grade students have been studying the American Civil War is social studies classes.  Recently they were assigned to represent the information they were learning in the form of an infographic.  A technique that takes information and presents in a one page graphic format usually shared online.  Students used PowerPoint and the tools provided with the program to create their infographic.  Teachers reported that all went well and were pleased with the outcomes.  Student samples will be coming soon!

Students Prepare For The STAAR Writing With A Little Brainpop

Students in Mrs. Porter's 7th grade ELA classes spent some time online today working with Brainpop videos and quizzes to test their knowledge about grammar.  Students emailed their quiz results to their teacher so she use one more piece of assessment to  see how prepared they were for the upcoming STAAR test.

Math Review Gets Interactive

Students in Mrs. Rutherford's math classes reviewed for the upcoming Math STAAR exam with the help of the Turning Points Student clickers.  Students were able to read the question, solve it and then send in their answers through the clickers.   Mrs. Rutherford then showed the results of how the class did and explained which answer was right and why.  This gave students a chance to seek clarification on math skills they did not understand and showed Mrs. Rutherford what concepts the students needed more help with.