In his 8th grade science class at Correia Middle School, Mr. Gardinier uses his web site to provide documents, data, and templates and also to publish student work. In addition, he also uses Topic Forums which he created using PHPBB for teacher moderated online threaded discussions. For a detailed look at Mr. Gardinier's projects, and student work, and a summary of hardware and software the students used, please check out the information below. 
 

8th Grade Science Fair Project:
Students used Microsoft Word for writing and making tables, Microsoft Excel for creating data tables, analyzing data, and making graphs, Microsoft PowerPoint for creating a mock up of the science fair presentation board, digital cameras, and scientific tools such as probeware. 

• Assignment, Documents, Temlpates, Scaffolds, Links to Websites

• Examples of Student Work  

Rubber Band Trajectory Project
Students used Microsoft Word for write up, Microsoft Excel for collecting, analyzing, and graphing data, and the Internet to conduct research and conduct simulations.

• Assignment, Documents, Templates, Scaffolds, Links to Websites

Balloon Powered Car Project
The students used the topic forums to collate research, Microsoft Excel for collecting, analyzing, and graphic data, Microsoft Word for podcast script and write up, Internet for research, iMovie and GarageBand for creating podcasts. 

• Assignment, Documents, Templates, Scaffolds, Data, Links to Websites
• Pictures of Student Work
• Podcasts
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Topic Forums

• View home page for PHPBB topic forums which are used for threaded discussions.  Forums are private.

Boat Project
Students used the Internet for research, Microsoft Word for write up, Microsoft Excel for data collection, analysis, and graphing. 

• View assigment and photos of student work

Atom Discovery Comic Project
Students used the Internet for research and ComicLife software to produce the comic.

• Assignment, Documents, and Links
  
• Student Comics (Toward Bottom of Page)  
  

Element Cube Project
Students use the Internet for research and Microsoft Word for write up.

• Assignment, Documents, Links, and Templates 
  

Planet Research Project
Students use the Internet for reserach, Microsoft Word for data collection, and Microsoft PowerPoint for presenting information.

• Assignment, Documents, Links, and Templates

Bridge Project
Students use the Internet for research, Microsoft Word for data collection and write up, and Microsoft Excel for data analysis and graphing.

• Assignment, Documents, Links, and Templates
• Photos of student bridges (Toward Bottom of Page)

Sport/Activity Analysis Project
Students use the Internet for research and Microsoft Word for write up.

• Assignment, Template, Links  
  

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The 7th grade students at Pershing Middle School have constructed web based student porfolios using Apple's iWeb software. The portfolios may include student theses for each unit of study, podcasts, science fair projects, and concept webs created using Inspiration software. 
 
View the Pershing Middle School: OnLine Student Portfolios 
 
Core Competencies for Technology Literacy Addressed: 
One, Two, Three, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten 
 
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Mrs. Poland, a teacher at Roosevelt Middle School, filmed the combination of Yeast and sugar with time lapse photography of a balloon filling up with air that the Yeast was exhaling.  
 
She also filmed the combination of Yeast and sugar with time lapse photography of Bromthymol Blue (BTB) changing from blue to yellow over time as the Yeast consumed the sugar and the gas they gave off was piped through the BTB solution. 
 
Her purpose for doing this was to be able to help students make sense of the information they had learned after the lab and to be able to relate further learning back to the visual data that she had collected. As many students at Roosevelt Middle are English Language Learners, she strives to capture as much visual information as possible to help the students to learn the content. 
 
Core Competencies for Technology Literacy Addressed: 
One, Six, and Eight 
 
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Mrs. Poland, a teacher at Roosevelt Middle School, captured video and still photos of cells. She was able to capture video of cilia moving on the cells and Protists and Bacteria in real time. Her purpose for doing this was to be able to help students make sense of the information they had learned after the lab and to be able to relate further learning back to the visual data that she had collected. As many students at Roosevelt Middle are English Language Learners, she strives to capture as much visual information as possible to help the students to learn the content. 
 
Core Competencies for Technology Literacy Addressed: 
One, Six, and Eight 
 
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Ms. O'Donnell's class at Roosevelt Middle School created this movie to summarize the process of digestion. The movie was entered into the San Diego County IVIE film competition in Spring of 2006 and took first prize in 6-12 Math/Science category. 
 
Core Competencies for Technology Literacy Addressed: 
One, Five, Six, Eight, Nine, and Ten 
 
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Podcast: Digestion Live!.m4v

Ms. O'Donnell's students at Roosevelt Middle School performed the skit from SALI Activity 13 and filmed by the teacher. The reason for putting this skit to film was to more thoroughly engage the students. Roosevelt has many English language learners in the school population and lengthy readings can be difficult to follow. By filming the skit and playing the movie for the class, the use of the students creativity and accents in the performance sought to engage the students much better. The teacher's initial speculation was that this version of the skit would engage the students more than just the reading and, in fact, that was the result that she found to be true. 
 
Core Competencies for Technology Literacy Addressed: 
One, Six, Eight, Ten 
 
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This video episode shows the students assembling the various organ systems with clay as done in SALI Activity 12. As we are watching the students assemble the clay model, they are explaining information about the organs and organ systems involved. Mrs. Poland's students at Roosevelt Middle School wrote a script, filmed, and edited the movie. 
 
Core Competencies for Technology Literacy Addressed: 
One, Five, Six, Eight, Nine 
 
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