6-8 Highlights
Students learned important research and digital citizenship concepts including intellectual property, Creative Commons, user rights, and revising citations while working on their Tiny Home project.
Investigating biomimicry in an engineering design project. Students redesigned basketballs, makeup palettes, fishing lures, gaming equipment, and more.
Empowered learners watched videos created by their teacher to learn how to find and cite images for a project, working at their own pace.
Creative communicators developed dynamic characters through comic strips.
Social Studies students engaged in online discussion to enhance their literature circles about the novel, Fever 1793.
Students created infographics to compare Islam and Christianity. (Click on the image to view the rest of the infographic.)
A trip to Rome to participate in an archaeological dig at the Colosseum wasn't in the budget, but this online simulation helped students to imagine what it would have been like.
Students showed off their creativity with these entries for the annual #Doodle4Google contest.
Students connected with experts and other students from around the world, including a civil rights leader, students in Kenya, an historian in Virginia, and an archaeologist in Greece.
Students created food truck businesses, including studying the history of food trucks, brainstorming ideas and gathering data on them, creating a design for the outside of the truck, and developing a menu and website.
