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Week 3 Highlights-Samples of 🐱‍🏍Digital Badges Awarded

Kristine Paul, Kinder at DSA uses Adobe Spark Videos to engage students in Reading, Spelling and Adding, and Math Riddles. She prepares the engaging videos, and then shares them with students.

Antonella Nechtman and Lauren Scherling, 4th grade at BMES are using Padlet with their students. This month their students created a padlet showing how they celebrated Earth Day.

Danica Gianni, English Teacher at CSHS also used Padlet with her classes during her Zoom calls last week! Kids responded during the virtual class on the padlets, as a checkout/check for understanding during class!

Trish Doran, 6th Grade Language Arts at DWES uses Project Based Learning with her students to engage in interdisciplinary units. This month she submitted a cross-curricular exploration of novels, food truck business, meal preparation using ratios & percentages (math, ela, business). And then they blogged about their experience.

Raquel Torregrosa Gonzalez de Rivera, 4th Grade Spanish Immersion at DWES using mini challenges with her students to engage them! This month she offered two challenges so far: 1. Take pictures around their homes of geometric elements, and submit on a Google Slide Deck; and 2. had them take inventory of their closets. Figure out numbers of items, and create a line plot and reflect on the results through a variety of ways, such as on a google slide show, seesaw, flipgrid, etc. Student choice at its best!!

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Week 2 Highlights

Elementary School

BMES 3rd Grade Teachers Amanda Barnes and Susan Spigarelli Create an Earth Day Unit on a HyperDoc

Amanda and Susan created this awesome HyperDoc for students in their classrooms to complete for Earth Day activities.

Students are able to answer directly into the docs with links to other resources as well!! When asked how they created the Fill in Boxes, they said:

"For the HyperDoc, (the Google Doc) they’re just colored text boxes for the students to fill in. For the Google Slides fill-in, I create a background so the students can’t change it, so anything I don’t want them to change is a photo that’s set as the background on the slide. Then I just add in, usually colored, text boxes and just type in ‘Type here’ so students know where to fill in!"

Click the picture to see the HyperDoc.

Middle School

STMS 7th Grade Science

Lauren Skinner has students use Google Draw...

"To demonstrate their understanding of ecological levels of organization, students could either get fresh air (safely) or complete research to find an ecosystem they were interested in. They then used a template I had created in Google Drawing to create their project. I also provided an example to help them better grasp the concept and understand the expectation." (Lauren's Quote)

Cary Winter, Math teacher at STMS created a self-check document for students to check their work! She said:

Cary Winter—"This is a self-checking document for students to practice finding side lengths of similar triangles. The answer box turns GREEN when answer is correct and RED when incorrect!! Students love it!!"

High School

Jim Marando Connects with students daily through ZOOM

Well, Jim was shy, but gave me permission to tell you some of what he has been doing to connect with students. With 3 preps, he still manages to create daily announcements for each class, published though Google Classroom, and on a variety of topics. Sometimes he just gives a 30 second check in, and reminders. Sometimes he goes deeper into content and assignments.

The point is that he checks in each day with video messages. Just one way the HS teachers stay connected with students.

Danica Gianni, English Teacher at CSHS, has such a positive approach to here communication, too!

Here's a sample of her weekly lesson planning doc! She embeds docs in there for her assignments as well as uses Google Classroom. Also using Pear Deck, Danica changes up her lesson delivery to keep it spicy!