Author Archives: jlrobinson3

Mrs. Koontz, a second grade teacher at Echo Lake Elementary, is participating in an awesome two week pilot study using a class set of Google Chromebooks. I went in last Friday afternoon and got her kids setup on their new devices. Mrs. Koontz’s students will be using the Chromebooks for the next two weeks and […] Continue reading →

I am so excited! The latest episode of Math on the Spot has been uploaded to the blog. This time the Elementary ITRT’s participated in a bowling competition at Bowl America. Each team bowled a round, figured out the fraction of pins they knocked down and then added their total to their partner’s total in […] Continue reading →

I have really enjoyed my time in 1st grade the past two weeks. The first grade teachers at Carver Elementary have been studying migration! One of my team members, David Clough, posted this awesome lesson he had taught with a first grade class as well! He shared all the resources on his blog so it […] Continue reading →

What a great morning I had with Mrs. Atkinson’s 2nd graders! These students have recently started studying ecosystems and Mrs. Atkinson wanted her students to spend some time researching a specific habitat and then design and create a replica of their ecosystem. Mrs. Hues (Elementary ITRT) recently shared a post on her blog about a […] Continue reading →

What a great morning I had with Mrs. Atkinson’s 2nd graders! These students have recently started studying ecosystems and Mrs. Atkinson wanted her students to spend some time researching a specific habitat and then design and create a replica of their ecosystem. Mrs. Hues (Elementary ITRT) recently shared a post on her blog about a […] Continue reading →

Last Thursday I had a MARVELOUS day at Carver Elementary! I started my morning in Kindergarten with Mrs. Parsley. Let me just tell you that woman is a ROCKSTAR!!! She emailed me earlier in the week and said that she wanted to do a Pixie activity with her kindergartners. She explained that she already had the […] Continue reading →

Shannon Hyman, Kaechele Elementary’s librarian, invited #TechTakeout to her AMAZING MakerFest Day to run ten different stations. Each one of the stations highlighted a tool that the students would have access to in the Kaechele Makerspace located in the library. Every 4th and 5th grade student had the opportunity to attend the event and learn […] Continue reading →

Last Friday #TechTakeout had the pleasure of going out to Ratcliffe Elementary. We had a blast doing computation with fractions! We first started off doing a Kahoot to get everyone warmed up. It was 5 easy fraction questions, just enough to get everyone excited. Here’s the link to the Kahoot if you want to use […] Continue reading →

Little did Mrs. Farthing know but she is currently teaching a 1st grade class full of movie producers. Mrs. Farthing signed up for a lesson on needs and wants. I checked in to see if she was ok with making a movie and she totally was! I was excited to teach a lesson with Windows […] Continue reading →

I recently saw an awesome Kindergarten lesson that Karen Hues shared on her blog. I have always been fond of using the app Easy Chart but since the iOS update it hasn’t worked well on our iPads. We needed to find another way to graph. After chatting with some other ITRT’s we realized you could […] Continue reading →