In his 8th grade science class at Correia Middle School, Mr. Ozeni uses his web site to provide documents, data, and templates and also to publish student work.  In addition, he also uses Topic Forums using PHPBB for teacher moderated online threaded discussions.  Below are links to the different projects on the site with a summary of what you will find at each link.

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
  Period 1
  Period 2
  Period 3
  Period 5
  Period 7

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
  

Astronomy Comic Project
Students use the Internet for reserach, Inspiration software for data collection and organization, ComicLife software to produce a visual and textual trip through the uinverse in a comic strip, and GarageBand to produce a video podcast.  Templates, scaffolds, and links for reasearch are also located at this site.

• Assignment, Documents, Links, and Templates
  
• Podcasts
  Period 1
  Period 2
  Period 3
  Period 5
  Period 7

Electronic Portfolio
Students will use PowerPoint to create a portfolio of their work during the 8th grade year.  Template, documents, and rubric are located at the following link.

• Electronic Portfolio