Burn Baby Burn - by Felicia Sonnier, felicia.sonnier@cpsb.org The students will complete a real life lesson dealing with expenses. The prerequisite skills they should have is a knowledge of excel and the program Burn Rate. Grade Level(s) 4, 5, Special Ed Content Area(s) English/Language Arts 11/29/2004 7:57:17 PM Coushatta Travel Brochure - by Virginia LaFleur, vlafleur@allen.k12.la.us Each year I take my students on a field trip to the Coushatta Day Camp. It is a half-day camp with fun-filled activities and games students engage in to experience the culture of the tribe. It is lots of fun and a great learning experience. The camp includes activites such as looking for arrowheads, making Indian necklaces, and eating authentic fried bread. Upon returning to school, I have my students recap the day by designing a travel brochure complete with mini reports and illustrations about what they learned at camp. This year I plan to incorporate the use of handhelds for taking notes and pictures during the excursion. Grade Level(s) 4, 5, 6, 7, Special Ed Content Area(s) English/Language Arts Social Studies 8/2/2004 3:50:01 PM Crazy With Catapults! - by Alison Dunaway, alison.dunaway@zacharyschools.org Students will use catapults to conduct an experiment in order to test the question “As the distance a rubber band is stretched and released from increases, does the distance the rubber band increase, decrease or stay the same? ” After conducting the experiment, documenting procedures by taking pictures with the handheld and collecting data on the handheld, the students will use the Excel on the handheld to graph the data. Grade Level(s) 3, 4, 5, Special Ed Content Area(s) Science 1/11/2006 9:17:11 PM Divisibility Rules - by Lenore Carroll, lenore.carroll Students will view a video on divisibility rules taking notes in Word on their Palms about the rules, then hear song of divisibility rules from Math Songs CD. Students will then use their Palms to practice divisibility rules using Divisible on their Palms Grade Level(s) 5, 6, Special Ed Content Area(s) Math 1/10/2006 10:52:38 PM Divisibilty Rules - by Lenore Carroll, lenore.carroll@cpsb.org Students will view a video on divisibilty rules taking notes in Word on their Palms about the rules , then hear song of divisibility rules from Math SOngs CD. Students will then use their Palms to practice divisibility rules using Divisible on their Palms. Grade Level(s) 5, 6, Special Ed Content Area(s) Math 1/10/2006 10:46:40 PM How Would You Handle It? - by Julie Doland, julie.doland@cpsb.org : The teacher in charge of Option 3 last year used Fridays to develop the student's writing skills (which are VERY limited!) by having them read a scenario about a real-life work force problem. They would read the article (it comes in a publication supplied by GED), write a short description of the problem, and then write about how they would change the problem. She said it was like pulling teeth to get them to write. I plan to let them use the handheld to take notes in Memo while they are reading and then to use Word to type up their solution. Discussion will also be used t get them to ponder other aspects/solutions to the problem. Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12, Special Ed Content Area(s) English/Language Arts 8/9/2004 6:47:57 AM Need a Bib? - by Vickie Barto, vickie.barto@cpsb.org Students will make a Bibliography card on various sources that would be located in the library. Students will use Word to Go to input information and beam to other class members. Inspiration will be used to collaborate common elements. Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12, Special Ed Content Area(s) English/Language Arts 12/9/2004 10:44:45 PM Rounding Whole Numbers - by Anjo Elsbury, Anmarmarel@aol.com After instruction and practice on rounding whole numbers to the nearest hundred’s place on the overhead, students will be beamed a teacher created Sketchy program that reexplains the lesson and use it as needed to practice rounding. They will then use what they learned to determine how to round numbers to larger places and design their own Sketchy to explain how to round a whole number to a given place. Grade Level(s) 5, Special Ed Content Area(s) Math 8/4/2004 12:28:37 PM