Archive for the 'SmartBoard' Category

What do We Know about Lincoln-Washington?

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Pre-Kindergarten and first grade students have been studying President Washington and Lincoln.
Pre-Kindergarten watched two short video clips from Discovery Education about the two famous Americans in TechConnect and then found graphic representations of what they had learned.
It was fun to drag, drop, draw and re-size clipart on the Smartboard.

First Grade also learned about these two [...]

Groundhog Day- Predictions

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Groundhog day is just around the corner.
First graders predicted if the groundhog would see his shadow, hence signaling six more weeks of winter.
The class discussed the results of their graph:

How many students predict that the groundhog will (not) see its shadow?
Did more students predict six more weeks of winter or more students predicting spring [...]

Students becoming Teachers

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

What if we asked our students to become the teachers? What if we asked our students to articulate the process of something that they have learned? The SmartBoard, that we have installed in TechConnect also has a special software that is available on all of the computers at school. That software includes the capability of [...]