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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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