This document provides a tour of a 5th grade classroom that has integrated various technologies into the curriculum. It describes how students use technologies like digital cameras, podcasting, websites, and online games to support learning in subjects like science, math, and history. Collaboration projects allow students to communicate with peers in other schools. The classroom website facilitates research, communication between school and home, and student sharing of work. Overall, the document shows how pervasive technologies have become for both teaching and student projects in this classroom.

1. Technology Integration Created by: Janice Abernethy February 2007

2. My name is Janice Abernethy, and this is my fifth grade class at East Elementary in Greenville, Pennsylvania. Please join me in a tour of my technologically infused classroom! You may click through the presentation or use the index on the next page to navigate to topics of interest.

3. Students using technology Collaboration Project Digital Photography WebQuests Mrs. A’s Cyber School Science Fair Stock Market Challenge 24 Family Involvement Podcasting Classroom Website PRESENTATION INDEX

4. Our Classroom Website Click on the hippo to explore the site yourself: or continue with the slideshow for highlights from our website.

5. These links are used in our daily quest for knowledge. The following slides are a sampling of these webpage contents. Website Links

6. Students use this research web page to research topics being learned about in class. Each link takes the student to a webpage with safe links for research.

7. This is a popular page with the students. They may view pictures of previous classrooms and share their own field trip experience with family and friends.

8. Students use this page for research and to share our pets with their families. Each pet has its own page with research links.

9. Students can download their projects at home to share with family and friends.

10. This page includes links to interactive games to practice skills. The games may be played on the SmartBoard or on individual computers at school or home. Back to Index

11. The Science Fair From choosing their project to the end product, students incorporate technology with science in innovative ways. Our webpage: used for Science Fair Research

12. View pictures of projects created by students using technology.

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20. Parent Communication Parent communication and involvement is essential to student success. View some of the ways technology makes this possible. Our website is our biggest link between home and school

21. Sites of interest to parents on the website. and many more…

22. Online lesson plans provide parents with the day to day activities going on in the classroom.

23. Parents use Edline to access students’ grade, lesson plans, and links to websites of interest. Back to Index

24. Challenge 24 Students come to school early to play this fun math game. View the next slide to see how we have incorporated technology into our Challenge 24 Club.

25. A card is scanned, then projected on the screen. Students use EggSpert to push a button. The first to “ring in” gives the solution and gets the points. How It Works Back to Index

26. Stock Market Club Students in the Stock Market Club participate in two contests. The Herald Stock Market Contest and Stocksquest See how students use technology to play the Stock Market Games

27. The Herald Stock Market Contest Students trade twice a week using stock quotes in the Sharon Herald. They track their stock prices in an excel file, using laptop computers. They are competing against students from other schools in the area.

28. Stocksquest Stocksquest is an online trading game. Students have their own accounts, and they are part of a class contest. I provide each student with a billion dollars, and they can check their class rank at any time. Students use Yahoo Finance to research their stocks. Back to Index

29. Students use this sturdy digital camera to take pictures for use in projects. They can even take the camera home to take pictures of their pets to share with the class. Back to Index Digital Photography

30. Students collaborated with a third grade class in New Jersey in an effort to learn the differences between urban and rural areas. Collaboration

31. Daily emails, pen pal letters, and various cross curricular activities were incorporated in this project.

32. Students from Newark toured their town and shared the experience with our students through digital pictures.

33. Our students toured Greenville and shared their digital pictures.

34. I made a trip to New Jersey to meet our partners, and the entire project was presented at a conference. We won first place for our interdisciplinary collaboration. Back to Index

35. Podcasting Our latest technological venture includes student- created podcasts.

36. Link to iTunes to download our podcast or go to our website to play our podcasts directly on your computer. Back to Index

37. Students use WebQuests in their quest for knowledge. WebQuests Our website has a variety of collected WebQuests in all the topics we are studying in 5 th Grade.

38. WebQuests include downloadable worksheets, directions, and Rubrics Back to Index I have also created some of my own WebQuests using Dreamweaver.

39. This is an online course I created for students using Moodle. It can be accessed from school and home and it is fully functional. Mrs. A's Cyber School Back to Index

40. Students Using Technology

46. Thank you for watching the show! Back to Index