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Mrs. O’Malley – [email protected]
Mrs. Fitzgerald – [email protected]
Our technology curriculum exposes the students to keyboarding, word processing, graphics, multimedia development, digital imagery, electronic graphic organizers, spreadsheets, databases, desktop publishing, graphing, map and timeline work, streaming videos, electronic sourcing for research, web activities including WebQuests, virtual field trips, inquiry-based learning projects, web essays, and web page development. Students are also provided with online test-taking and electronic skill-building with differentiated learning. Most recently, the 8th graders completed an online science unit. This program is coordinated with classroom teachers to enhance the curriculum and create an authentic learning environment.
Mrs. Ruthy O’Malley & Mrs. Nancy FitzgeraldCurators
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Room 1
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BeginningConsonant
SoundsGoodFriday
Penguins
11stst Grade Grade
Careers
Room 2
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Careers KidPixSlideshows
Autoshapes
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OnlineExplorations
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Keyboarding DraggableDivision
Haiku
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Internet Safety
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RebusSentences Rosary
PowerPoint
AnimalResearch
44thth Grade Grade
The RealGifts
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Planet Research Poetry
Presentation
Charts &Graphs
55thth Grade Grade
BiographyResearch
Room 5Mesopotamia
WebQuest
RomeInspirationGraphic
Organizer
FortunatelyPowerPoint
66thth Grade Grade
Greek Gazette
Mona Lisa
Probability
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Room 5Virtual World
Tour CADDrawings
Timberlee
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BuddyProject
RRRProject
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Room 5InternetSafetyPosters
MergedLetter &
Database
VirtualFrog
Dissections
88thth Grade Grade
3DCAD
Drawings
HTMLMovie Editing
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Room 1
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AlphabetMy House
Opposites
KindergartenKindergarten
Addition
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1st Grade
Beginning Consonant Sounds
The 1st graders began the year withidentification of the different parts ofthe computer, opening and closing programs, and saving. Curriculum tiesReinforced within the lab included telling time, counting money, basic math skills, consonant sounds, and word sequencing.
The 1st graders completed a penguintemplate and typed in sentences aboutthem. This reinforced the penguin unitcompleted in the classroom.
Penguins
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Careers
The students located their pictures in their class folders and learned how to insert them into Word. Using the picture tool bar, they worked with the "Crop" button to cut and shape the pictures of themselves. The 1st graders also learned how to center the pictures and create borders.
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Good Friday
The 1st graders drew pictures andtailored stamps to depict a scene from the Stations of the Cross in preparationFor Easter.
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2nd Grade
Careers
The students located their pictures in their class folders and learned how to insert them into Word. Using the picture tool bar, they worked with the "Crop" button to cut and shape the pictures of themselves. The 2nd graders also learned how to centerthe pictures and create borders.
AutoShapes
The 2nd Graders also learned how to make shapes using auto-shapes in MS Word. They created several different hearts and “filled” each one with different color. Nextthey learned how to insert Word Art.
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Online ExplorationThe 2nd graders completed online explorations that reinforced classroomcurriculum as follows:Draggable Subtraction: Students entered the numbers 5, 3, and 2 to set up their problems and the number of digits to subtract.Wall of Words: Students played Wall of words, where they dragged scrambled words to make a sentence, it started with 5 words once the wall was built, it switched to 7 words. They had to add 5 layers of brick and they had 1 minute to do it.
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KidPix Slideshows
The 2nd graders composed short stories and created multimedia slideshows inKidPix. They used their keyboarding,drawing, saving and insertion skills. Theyadded transitions and sounds to theirfinished products. KidPix is suitable foryounger students because it allowsthem to “draw” and be more imaginative.
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Keyboarding
The 3rd graders learned all the letters and symbols of the keyboard. They workedPrimarily in the Mavis Beacon program,But also reinforced their skills doing online keyboard practice.
Haiku
The 3rd graders created Haiku’s in conjunction with the language artscurriculum. They wrote their creative poems during class time and typed theminto the Print Artist program. Next, theyinserted images and copied and pasted their work into Microsoft Word.
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Internet Safety
The 3rd graders completed an online studyabout Internet Safety. They explored the site and learned about cyber bullying andthe importance of not providing personalinformation, navigating safely, andonline netiquette.
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Draggable Division
The 3rd graders completed online explorations that reinforced classroomcurriculum as follows: Draggable Division - Students entered the numbers 5, 3 and 1 and clicked on the circle next to “No Remainder” to set the problems up.
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Rebus Sentences
The 4th graders worked on their typing skills in Mavis Beacon, and kept track of their speed by creating progress charts inMicrosoft Excel each week. Using theirtyping skills, the students createdRebus sentences in Word and importedimages from PrintArtist, gaining practicein the ability to switch between two different programs.
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Animal Research
The 4th graders were assigned an animal to investigate and used the San Diego Zoo site to locate their data and complete their research.
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Rosary PowerPoint
The 4th Graders created PowerPointpresentations on the mysteries ofThe rosary.
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The “Real Gifts” of Christmas
The students created a nativity scene in Print Artist entitled: "THE REAL GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS". They surrounded the picture with words like: Comfort, Love, 2nd Chances, Wonder, Peace, Charity, Joy, Faith, Trust, Hope, Compassion, Reassurance, Rejoicing, and Courage.
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Planet Research
The 5th graders were assigned a planetto investigate and used the “Welcometo the Planets” site to locate their dataand find an image.
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Charts and Graphs
The 5th graders entered data into spreadsheets and then generated graphs at Create A Graph, and online site.
Research
Students are completed an 8 slide presentation for their Social Studies research project using PowerPoint.
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Poetry Presentation
Poetry presentations were created to display haiku's, limericks, rhymes and acrostic Poetry. First the 5th graders completed worksheets on the four types of poetry; and then they made up their own. Next they put their poetry together In multi-media presentations where they added images and buttons to create non-linear presentations.
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The 6th graders conduct a short probability study to reinforce a math lesson. The group rolls a virtual die 20 times and data is recorded into a spreadsheet. After all numbers have been entered, students learn how to autosum each column (1-6) to determine total times each number came up. A 3D pie graph is then generated using this information.
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Probability Graphing Project
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The 6th graders access an online project entitled “The Mesopotamia Museum is Empty!” Students then worked in pairs and chose an accomplishment to research. They used a graphic organizer to template to answer questions about the accomplish-ment and keep track of resources. The final product was a 5 slide presentation that included a short movie clip. Students were also required to add a gradient background, custom animations and Transitions.
Mesopotamia WebQuest
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The students completed an interactive book based upon Fortunately by Remi Charlip. This project involved groups using a graphic organizer to plan their original story. Each student in the group then created his/her page in PowerPoint. Oncecomplete the 6th graders learned how to coordinate their font selections, grayscale "Unfortunately" pages, and string multiple slides into one presentation. The final projects were presented as multimedia stories using the SmartBoard.
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The 6th graders worked in groups to create a "Greek Gazette" with Microsoft Publisher. Working in groups, the students researched ancient Greece and wrote articles as if they were reporters living in that time.
Greek Gazette
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Using their knowledge of the graphic organizer program, the 6th graders completed webbed maps about the ancient Roman culture. They also created interactive timelines of their own lives. The program allowsthem to include graphics, create hyperlinks, and insert movies clips.
Rome Inspiration Graphic Organizers
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The students covered various artists of theRenaissance in Social Studies and we tied our Mona Lisa project to this unit. Digital photographs of the students were transformed into "Monas". Using a draw program, students discovered how to cut a photo and layer it onto an existing image of Mona Lisa. They also used the software tools to soften edges, colorize, transparency, and match two image colors with the paint dropper tool to create their “masterpieces”.
Mona Lisa
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The 7th Graders completed a latitude/longitude activity and wereIntroduced to a map program. Next they utilized the tools to locate latitude/longitudes of various cities around the world and recorded them into spread-sheets. From this, the students created a "World Tour" using Google Earth.
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Virtual World Tour
The 7th graders used Microsoft PhotoStoryto create photo slideshows of theirTimberlee Outdoor Ed experience. The students chose from photos of the trip that were saved into a central networked file. They added text, animations, photoeffects and sound to create a movie memory.
Timberlee
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The 7th graders developed an interactive multimedia PowerPoint story based on The Gingerbread Man. This project beganwith the creation of graphic organizers using the Inspiration program to plan the story and the students then used the information to create their presentations. The 7th graders then taught their 1st grade little buddies how to record and insert sound and animations into the PowerPoint projects.
Little Buddy Project
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The students began the project by visiting “Building Big” to learn about the physics and structure of buildings. They also used the Internet to research their selected building. Next they used Google SketchUp to complete the tutorials that provided information about how to manipulate shapes and tools within the program. For science class they researched and collaborated with partners to create short reports about the buildings. They also constructed a 3D model of the buildings at home to display in the school’s hobby fair.
CAD Drawings
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The words “Religion”, “Respect” and “Responsibility” are buttons to click
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The students created interactive multi-media project with words from the school logo. Each student in the group developedone slide and then learned how to string them together into one presentation. They inserted movie clips, sound files and added buttons to advance the slides.
RRR PowerPoint
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The students created Internet safety postersin Microsoft Publisher after discussing and viewing streaming videos on the subject and completing a WebQuest.
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Internet Safety Posters Desktop Publishing
The 8th graders completed a virtual frog dissection using a program called “Biolab Frog” in the lab. Next they visited http://www.froguts.com to complete another lab online before performingactual frog dissections in science class.
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Virtual Frog Dissections
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The students chose a building from theparish campus to render in 3D usingGoogle Sketchup.
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3D CAD Drawings
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The 8th graders worked in pairs to complete the Civil War – A Nation Divided WebQuest. (See link below.) The project called for them to write letters to each other as soldiers in the Civil War (one as a Confederate soldier and the other as a Union soldier). First, they organized their ideas in a graphic organizer and then typed their letters. To extend the lesson, the students created databases in Excel and subsequently learned how to merge the information together to generate multiple letters. This lesson included instruction about how to create fields and records, sort, and filter information in a spread-sheet. In Word, they created merge fields to coincide with their databases and learned the significance of using auto-dates in letters.
Merging Letters & Databases
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“What Am I” website.
The 8th graders learned how to create web pages using html coding. They were very creative and incorporated formatting changes, bulleted lists, and target links. Some ventured further and added music and Java scripts. A later assignment called for them to use a WYSIWYG program called Kompozer to create a website consisting several pages.
Web Page Development
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The 8th The movie editing project involved creating an instructional video using Microsoft MovieMaker. They started with assorted film clips on bullying and cliques and learned how to insert text, transitions and make cuts. Final projects were burned on cds for use by other students in the school.
Movie Editing
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The Kindergarteners located twoimages of opposites and usedstamps to “type” the words.
Opposites
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The students created addition problems using pictorial representations.
Addition
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The Kindergarten technologycurriculum begins with how to handle the mouse and most of the activities tie into their regular class-room curriculum by Reinforcing number & Letter Recognition, spatial Sense, and alphabetical dequencing. For this project, thestudents worked with alphabet stamps in the KidPix program to reinforce their alphabet knowledge and fine motor skills.
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Alphabet Reinforcement
Community
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The Kindergarteners drew and used stamps to create picturesof their houses and addeda sentence. Each step takescoordination and fine motorskill to complete.
SSPP Online Student Center
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The Online Student Center wascreated as a resource for students,teachers, and parents. It containsresources for searching, research,skill reinforcement, reading compre-hension, enrichment, and Internet assistance.