In the Middle School,
students experience a single platform environment (PC). The
Middle School has approximately 40 hardwired desktop computers
available for student use in classrooms and in the computer
lab. In addition, 23 laptop and 5 tablet computers are available
for use on the wireless network.
All of these resources (and many more including
digital still and videocameras, Vernier data Collection probes,
scanners, etc.) are utilized in such a way as to create an
experience in which teachers can allow students to have technology
at their fingertips in and outside of their classrooms. Middle
School instruction in technology is integrated into classes
in all subject areas.
Sample of class projects:
- In PE, students use Polar Heart Monitors to monitor, record,
and evaluate their heart rates during physical activities.
- French students take pictures with digital cameras and
place them into MicroWorlds pictures, and animate them to
connect appropriate images to the spoken language.
- History students work cooperatively to create PowerPoint
presentations about the Battle of Gettysburg;
- Math students graph and analyze functions using their
TI-83 calculators.
- Visual Arts students create claymation videos and edit
their work with Final Cut Pro.
>> view Claymation
Video (Windows Media)
- The 8th Grade Video Club preparing their next broadcast
for the Middle School network.
- All science classes use laptops and probes to collect
and analyze data in the lab and in the field.
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