Elementary
- Ben Rimes - Problem
- Ben Rimes works for Jennings Elementary for the Quincy Community Schools in Quincy, MI as a computer teacher. As a technology teacher, Mr. Rimes felt there was a disconnect between the curriculum and use of technology at his school.
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- Ben Rimes - Solution
- Mr. Rimes uses Web Quests to create a lesson plan for his students to create baseball cards about famous European explorers.
Review his problem. Tags: Social Studies, Elementary, Web Quest
- Carolyn Curtis - Problem
- Carolyn Curtis is the 5th grade Choir director for the Battle Creek Area Catholic Schools. Since Ms. Curtis is the only choir teacher for 35 students, she is unable to consistently help her students learn their pitches on an individual basis while keeping the choir as a whole engaged.
View her solution. Tags: Elementary, Music
- Cindy Morden - Problem
- Cindy Morden is a 3rd grade teacher at Dorhety Elementary School in West Bloomfield, MI. Her students have a hard time grasping the concept of maps and require a more concrete representation of how maps represent information.
View her solution. Tags: Elementary, Geography
- Cindy Morden - Solution
- Ms. Morden's solution involved having her students use the website MapQuest to examine landmarks that they could relate to, such as their neighborhood and school. Also, using the website GlobExplorer, she could have students see aerial photos of their school and compare that to the maps from MapQuest. Ms. Morden also built interactive experiences using a video camera and tourist maps of areas she had visited.
Review her problem. Tags: Elementary, Geography, Video, Online Maps
- Marilyn Western - Problem
- Marilyn Western is a 5th and 6th grade computer teacher in Mt. Pleasant, MI. She has found that students have had a difficult time understanding the reasons for the seasons, confusing concepts about the Earth's orbit and tilt and how they affect the seasons. She also has felt that the students often have a hard time understanding concepts that are not directly related to them.
See her solution. Tags: Elementary, Middle School, Science
- Marilyn Western - Solution
- Ms. Western devised a lesson plan using technology that makes the experience of learning about the seasons active and personal to her students. Using Weather.com she has her students record sunrise and sunset and use Microsoft Excel to plot the length of days for an entire season. Ms. Western also uses digital images to take a picture of a stationary object on the playground over a series of eight weeks to illustrate the shadow growing or shrinking.
Review the problem. Tags: Elementary, Middle School, Science, Digital Imaging, Graphs, Animation, Excel
- Robert Attee
- Robert Attee is the technology enrichment teacher at Salina Elementary in Dearborn, MI. Mr. Attee has been working in his district to increase their achievement in the area of science on standardized tests with their limited English student population. After designing rubrics for the teachers to help assess the students, the district needed to find software that would be general enough that it address multiple intelligences, had a constructivist approach and was tailorable to the needs of the students.
No solution video available. Tags: Elementary, ESL, Science
- Sandra Smits - Problem
- Sandra Smitts is a 3rd grade teacher at Bauer Elementary in Hudsonville, MI. Ms. Smits and her peer teachers have to deal with the pressure to meet the district, state and federal standards while still creating lesson plans that are engaging and creative and that meet the needs of all of their students.
See her solution. Tags: Elementary, Science, Standards
- Sandra Smits - Solution
- Ms. Smits uses claymation to motivate her students to meet the standards for her science class during the their life cycle unit. Using a digital cameras and the software Video Blender, the students use clay to create an animation of different life cycles. After the unit is done, she hosts a movie day and the students watch each others videos. Afterwards she uses the videos as an assessment using a rubric she created with her peer teachers.
View the problem Tags: Elementary, Science, Video, Digital Imaging, Animation, Standards