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Thomas County on Digital Learning Day!

Mrs. Sellars assigned an activity to her first grade students at Garrison-Pilcher on the SeeSaw app that required students to collaborate by taking each other’s pictures on the iPads. Then they chose a Dr. Seuss character to transform themselves into by using the drawing tools to color over the picture of themselves. Mrs. Sellars was amazed at the creativity they displayed and the variety of characters they chose.

Ms. Bevis read "Jennifer Jones Won't Leave Me Alone" to the students in Hand-in-Hand's media center. It's a story about a boy who is annoyed by a girl's affections until she travels the world with her mom. She sends him letters of her travels so the students traveled to all the places she went on Google Earth.

Students in Mrs. Floyd's Georgia History class are using a cartoon analysis guide and activity from the Library of Congress to analyze a political cartoon from the modern civil rights era. They are identifying devices such as labeling, symbolism, exaggeration, irony, and analogy. They are also writing about context needed to understand the cartoon, and explaining the cartoonist's message.

Students in Mrs. Fykes and Ms. Taylor's third grade classes at Cross Creek have begun their Iditarod unit, so they decided to allow the children to "go" to school the way many of the students have to go to school in Alaska...digitally. They gave them a schedule of the day on Google Classroom and directions for each activity. We also have a Padlet set up for them to post questions or comments about the assignments that teachers or neighbors can help with. They are able able to discuss with their neighbors about an activity if the need arises.

Students in Ms. Miles' sixth grade math classes at TCMS have created slide presentations (using Google Slides) this week with 15 different slides about their "favorite number." These slides cover a lot of the material they students have covered this year. The students were given a checklist and a rubric (created in Google Sheets) and presented to each other and completed a peer grade (submitted in Google Forms). It was a great review project that utilized technology and allowed students to show their knowledge and creativity.

Students in Mr. Powell's English classes at TCCHS are making good use of digital tools including CommonLit, IXL, and Membean.

Students in Mrs. Ray's art classes at Cross Creek updated their digital online portfolios by adding their self-portraits to Artsonia using iPads! Artsonia allows parents to see students' creative art projects and even order items featuring their art work.

As a part of the rhetoric unit in Ms. Smith's English classes at TCCHS, students are working collaboratively to create an original superhero. Groups are trying to persuade the teacher using rhetorical appeals that their superhero is the only one capable of saving the world.

Through Virtual Reality, students followed a weather balloon's journey and explored the lower two layers of the atmosphere. In the lowest layer, the troposphere, students in Mrs. Sturrup's science classes at TCMS learned that this is where we live and also where "weather" - wind, storms and violent events like hurricanes and cyclones - takes place. Next, students entered the stratosphere where the ozone layer absorbs energy from the sun and protects us from the harmful UV rays. The higher the balloon went, the thinner the atmosphere became where there was less weight. This allowed the helium molecules to spread out, reaching the size of a 3-story house before the balloon burst and made its way back to Earth. Without the use of this technology, this "Magic School Bus" virtual field trip would not have been possible!

In Mr. Love's coding class at Cross Creek, students used iPads to discover animals close up in augmented reality using Google Expeditions.

"Bee Bot Dr. Seuss Style" Oh the places Bee Bot can go, with a twist-he may can travel here or there, but he cannot travel just anywhere. Students in Mrs. Bass' first grade class at Garrison-Pilcher demonstrated critical thinking skills while working collaboratively to program Bee Bot for #DLD.

Students in Mrs. Witcher's class at TCMS used Google Forms for a quick review on analogies as a center in ELA to prepare for the benchmark . They also used Quizlet Live to practice for a vocabulary test in social studies. In reading, students researched a famous black American and then created bodies of their person.