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Build It! Webquest!
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| Author: Amber Baur (Harbor View Elementary, Orange County)
Description: Investing in the lives of students through the interactions of math, technology, and community is the theme of the Build It! WebQuest! Students master the foundational skills that architects, photographers, artists, and graphic designers use in their dail... > more
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Digital Storytelling with Kindergarteners
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| Apple QuickTime
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| Author: Sonja Hollis (Juliette Low Elementary, Orange County)
Description: Kindergarteners have very creative, eager and curious minds. The goal at Juliette Low is to use that creativity to build students’ oral and written communication skills through the use of Digital Storytelling. Students learn to use a variety of technol... > more
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Got Matter?
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| Apple QuickTime
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| Author: Deanna Lawson (Westmont Elementary, Orange County)
Description: Got Matter? is a 3rd grade science and technology unit addressing the 3rd grade California State Content Standards. Students are learning the three states of matter - solids, liquids and gases as well as changing matter, through melting, freezing, evapor... > more
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iEngage
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| Apple QuickTime
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| Author: Kristin Thomsen (Aliso Elementary, Orange County)
Description: iEngage embraces the idea that if students are involved in their class, then they are learning! Research indicates that reading comprehension is increased drastically by improved reading fluency. State standards expect fourth and fifth grade students to... > more
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Movie Magic by Master Mathematicians
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| Apple QuickTime
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| Author: Nancy Kaiser (Juliet Morris Elementary, Orange County)
Description: Movie Magic enables 3rd & 6th grade teachers to monitor and assess the mastery of California math standards through the use of video editing software and the Smart Response System. Students work in collaborative teams to design animated videos (with evalu... > more
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Probe Ware Based Mechanics Labs
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| Apple QuickTime
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| Author: Tim Smay (University High, Orange County)
Description: Students use PASCO Timers, a device that, though simple to use, gives them valuable information as they conduct physics labs. They can determine an object’s velocity or acceleration, or they can just use the instrument as a simple timer to measure very ... > more
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Rapid Prototype Development
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| Apple QuickTime
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| Author: Fred Kendell (Trabuco Hills High, Orange County)
Description: The students are either given a very traditional multiple part drawing or a multiple part object to reverse engineer. Students then draw the objects in a solid modeling program called Solid Works. The students are not only required to make the solid mod... > more
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Robotics
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| Apple QuickTime
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| Author: Jodie Hawkins (John O. Tynes Elementary, Orange County)
Description: Students learn about the use of electromagnets in simple devices by building Lego Mindstorm Robots. Working in small groups, students follow schematics to build their robots, then use drop and drag software programming to control their robots. Once the ... > more
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Science Live
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| Apple QuickTime
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| Author: Scott Williams (Villa Park Elementary, Orange County)
Description: Villa Park Elementary is going GREEN – with a green screen, that is! Students use a green screen to help their science book come to life. “Science Live” is a multi-media project where students work collaboratively developing a script, finding medi... > more
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Smart-e Alphabet
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| Apple QuickTime
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| Author: Mary Catherine Doyle (Fairhaven Elementary, Orange County)
Description: Smart-e Alphabet is a highly interactive project which improves students’ skills in written and spoken English, which leads to beginning reading by taking advantage of the youngsters’ seemingly fearless approach to technology. Each page includes an u... > more
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The Book Browser – Bits & Bytes of Books
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| Author: Judy Denenny (McPherson Magnet, Orange County)
Description: Imagine a myriad of 6th grade Orange Unified students exchanging ideas, opinions, and critiques on books they have just finished reading, using an engaging online setting! An interactive website, “The Book Browser – Bits and Bytes of Books,” design... > more
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