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Tech Takeout at Lakeside!

This week is our 5 Schools, 5 Days with Tech Takeout. The Tech Takeout crew is going to a different school every day and working on specific skills with students. Today was our first day and we kicked off 5 … Continue reading Continue reading

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Tech Takeout at Baker!!

  Friday the Tech Takeout crew had the great opportunity of taking over 4th grade at Baker Elementary School! Math has been one of the focus areas of the school so we decided to bring the math in our activities. … Continue reading Continue reading

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Soil Research

Third grade students in Ms. Taylor’s class at Tuckahoe Elementary, learned more about soil by doing some research. Before the lesson took place, the teacher and I discussed the TIPC and which area she wanted to focus on. Research was … Continue reading Continue reading

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Makey-Makeys at Mehfoud

MaKeyMaKey At Mehfoud from Matt Caratachea on Vimeo. Today I helped out at Mehfoud Elementary for their Seussstacular Day! I ran a “techie” station with ITRTs, Julie Smith and Matt Caratachea. We used three Makey-Makeys which turn objects into touch … Continue reading Continue reading

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Telling Time

First graders in Mrs. Mir’s class at Three Chopt practiced telling time using Chatter Pix. Great way to combine manipulatives and the iPad! Telling Time from Sarah Green on Vimeo. Continue reading

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eMedia VA

VCRs and DVD players are slowly dying so if you haven’t already done so, take a look at this great free resource for video streaming!  Login with your HCPS email address and password. http://www.emediava.org/ Continue reading

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Protect your Laptop!

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Simple Machine Animations

Students in Mrs. Atkinson’s class used ABCya! to animate simple machines.  (This lesson originally came from David Clough).  When they were done, they exported as a gif and I used the Google work collector to gather all of their animations. … Continue reading Continue reading

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Google Earth

Second grade students in Ms. Bond’s class at Three Chopt, used Google Earth today to explore China. They have been learning about Ancient China, but wanted to connect it to China today. They found the Great Wall of China, The … Continue reading Continue reading

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Hour of Code

Students at TES participated in the Hour of Code and learned valuable critical thinking and problem solving skills. They also found that collaboration was very useful in the later parts of the some of the activities. This was also a … Continue reading Continue reading

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