Document Analysis in History though Hovercam
The Hovercam can project images and text from books and other sources onto the SmartBoard. This allows students to readily access authentic historical documents to analyze them in a very interactive way. Additionally, student work can be projected onto the SmartBoard allowing for greater collaboration and immediate feedback.
Minds-On HS STEM education
The Science Department purchased a class set of MINDSTORMS resources that provided the Conceptual Physics classes the tools necessary to use Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) principals to design and build a variety of robotic machines while solving real world challenges. At the same time the standards based activities will help the students develop […]
Desktop Publishing Using Adobe Indesign
The literary magazine club, Miscellanea is an ongoing extracurricular activity that produces a yearly publication which is distributed to the high school students each spring. The use of a laptop with new page-making software will bring the designing of the magazine into the 21st century and also will enable more students to work on the […]
Investigating Environmental Science and Field Biology
Environmental Science is an elective for juniors and seniors and has been modifying its approach to teaching science. The result has been a class that is more inquiry based and field oriented. Materials needed are soil, water and forest testing equipment. The goals are to increase the technological skills of the students and bring a […]
Screenflex Portable Partition
This grant provided a safe, flexible and effective means to divide space in the library for increasingly frequent professional development workshops, class presentations and guest lectures in the electronic classroom area. The portable partition will be used for Teen Arts, the International Festival, large group testing, and other needs for either segregated or flexible display […]