6th+Grade

6th Grade in Action Mrs. Shaw ~ //"The TRC grant has allowed us to bring technology into our classroom to teach, practice, and reinforce the standards the students are learning." //Mrs. Steiner ~ //"The TRC grant has pushed me to step out of my comfort zone and challenged me to find new and better ways to teach my students. My students are not the only ones who benefit from this technology. I have grown tremendously as a teacher, and now have the tools to continue my professional development in the future." //



Top Ten Ways to be Successful in Mrs. Shaw's Class

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Greek Gods and Goddesses ~ My Fake Wall

Student Creations

**The Watson's go to Birmingham ~ **Voicethread

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 The class read the Watson's Go To Birmingham as a literature unit. The students selected a chapter to summarize and used their digital literacy skills to obtain images that relate to their particular chapter. The students then uploaded their images and recorded their summary using a Web 2.0 application called Voicethread.


 * Ancient Egypt ~ ** GoAnimate

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 Team-teaching has allowed us to plan together and create cross-curricular units. While Sharon taught the book The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, I covered the Egypt chapter in social studies. We were able to bring in many videos from Discovery Education to enhance our teaching, showing the kids exactly what the geography of Egypt looked like. Our culminating project for the Egypt unit required students to research certain aspects of Ancient Egyptian life/culture/geography through educational websites such as Kan-Ed. Students then created an animation to present their information.


 * Number the Stars ~ **Newspaper





<span style="color: #cf0c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> The Number the Stars unit was designed to help students develop an understanding of World War II. The students organized their questions and knowledge gained by utilizing a KWL chart. They then chose a topic of interest to research by using Kan-Ed Empowered Desktop and various internet resources. The final product was a newspaper that the students designed and contained all of their information by using an application called Pages.

Broadcast

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<span style="color: #cf0c0c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> The Broadcast projects allow the students to report on a current event. Students interview classes and staff, report on Elmont news, and write trivia questions. The broadcast is then shown at lunch to the entire school.