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Jax Heights-Ms. Pridgen 4/5 STAR Class Talk about a great class, Ms. Pridgen’s students were ready for anything I threw their way! For the first week the students and I worked with division and worked on a few interactive activities to support their learning. In addition, I introduced the students to [|Nettrekker] where they explored a multitude of sites after searching for division as a topic. After meeting with Ms. Pridgen at the end of the first week she asked if I could provide any engaging activities for the class to work on building their writing skills. In fact they were working on Tall Tales and Ms. Pridgen wanted the students to either write their own tall tale or recreate one that they had already discussed in class. The students were excited to practice creating tall tales with [|Kerpoof] as their technology tool to use. Check out their tall tales!

Second Round- With Ms. Pridgen’s class we worked on looking into the difference between customary and metric units. The students used various tools like the website [|BrainPop.com], practiced searching on Google and how to make more specific searches. After so research the students were given a Glogster account and create their own digital poster about Customary and Metric Units. The students learned how to download and incorporate an image into their page. Many of the students incorporated a table of how the units are organized and how they could convert them. They enjoyed using [|Glogster] and so did Ms. Pridgen.
 * [|Herbert] [|Jason] **

[|Group 11]

Jax Heights-Ms. Van Gaasbeek 2/3 STAR Class Ms. Van Gaasbeek’s class had the experience of working with their school’s laptop cart, which was exciting to them because they could use their very own computer and not have to share one with someone else. During my first week with the students, we reviewed number sense by doing interactive activities and games online. The students enjoyed working with [|Nettrekker] and knowing that they could use it at home also! My second week with the students consisted of learning about plants. The class was to do a little research about plants. They could pick a search engine to investigate facts about plants, plant parts, and plant needs. Their choices were [|Google], [|Nettrekker], or Bing. Once they had collected at least 6 facts, the students were instructed on how to use Glogster, which is a website where students can create digital posters. Each student was assigned an account that they could complete their Glog page on to compile the facts they found about plants. Unfortunately, due to technical issues, the students were not able to work on their own individual posters and we completed one together as a class. Check it out!

[|Ms. VanGaasbeek's Class Glog]

Second Round-

Ms. VanGaasbeek asked me to work with various math topics with her students. I introduced the students to [|BrainPop.com] and other math sites that they could use. From there I had the children choose their math topic that they may have trouble with. The students then focused on that topic when looking for games, websites and information on their topic.