Special Ed/Guided Study:

Visual tour of the Holocaust Museam

Visual experience which many Spec. Ed. students need

Survey with graphing data and statistics

Keep everything neat and organized, since some students have difficulty with fine motor skills.

"Show Clippings" feature in Appleworks

Helped students gain comprehension

PowerPoint quiz in the style of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"

Games help students learn

Read Naturally program

Helps with fluency and comprehension and helps to keep students focused

PowerPoint Ressearch Project

Students extended their presentations with multi-media cllips found on the Internet

Gathering information for a Research Paper using SHS online library

Students become familiar with SHS online resources and tools. Worked on finding reliable sites.

Hero Stories animated with clay

Increased participation, helped students overcome some boundaries

Career Locker

Helped students write resumes

PowerPoint project on Biology

Students researched on their own, gathering additional information, not from teacher

Business Ed:

PowerPoint and Internet to help understand aspects of contract law.

Allowed students to see concrete examples of theories.

Applied Arts:

PowerPoint presentations for fashion history and furniture styles

Visuals help make the topic clear and easy to understand

CAD (Computer Assisted Drawing)

Students learn to create drawings to industry standards

PowerPoint presentations of car buying project in Consumer Educatoins.

PowerPoint is more motivating than poster board presentations

Client Project (designing a nutrition plan) using Dine Healthy

Higher level reasoning/thinking, reinforces nutrition to pictures

Foreign Language:

PowerPoint with Preterite/Imp.

Helped students learn a difficult topic in a more fun, less stressful, creative and collaborative way

Students raised money for different organizations in Israel, and used the Internet to research and decide which organizations to donate money to

Access to timely information online helped students make good decisions

PowerPoints for language topics

Students practice and present in the target language, more engaging and fun or students

iMovie "presentation" to stress importance of learning a foreign language

Gained skills in movie production, increased attention by students, and they had fun.

iMovie introductions in Latin I

Students practiced oral language skills in a concentious manner. Also gained familiarity with iMovie.

Webquests

Webquest tasks promote higher-order thinking and give students experience gathering resources on the Internet.

Science:

Horesepower Lab using restaurant websites

Students gather and compare data on nutrition values of fast food

PowerPoint presentations on Endangered Species

Enforced research skills, provided ownership in learning, and knowledge presenting

Student created "Review" PowerPoint presentations

Students reivewed and condensed material and presented in class.

Online review to study for a test

Students receive instant feedback, reinforced learning

PowerPoint Lectures providing links to annotations from the web

Students can investigate and review outside of class

Online Virtual Earthquake

Students gain hands-on simulation of a rare event

Natural Science Review in PowerPoint

Good overview for test. Students become expert on one topic and teach it to others.

Astronomy Video Presentations (commercials/newscasts)

Students gain skills in communication, promotes creativity

Webquest projects presented at end of semester in PowerPoint

Helps students organize a lot of information and present the "critical nuggets"

Fine Arts:

Photo II - students scan their work to edit in Photoshop.

Students gained skills with image editing

Sculpture II - students researched artist biographical information on the Internet

Shared information with classmates during presentations.

Dance - Learning to edit music in iMovie

Provides custom selections for teaching dance

Social Studies:

Renaissance and Civil Rights PowerPoint presentations

Presentation skills, research skills

Use of Internet for US History

Students research Supreme Court cases on the Intenet

Information would be difficult to access without the Internet

Painted PowerPoint slides to create a storybook

Students express their interests and gain skills

Math:

Graphing Calculator Past Projects are posted on the web

Students have access to view quality examples when preparing their projects.

Solving Systems: Cell phone project, comparing plans

Techology helps locate current information