Category Archives: Google Slides
#TechTakeout Gets Scientific with Seven Pines!
Last Friday, the Tech Takeout team visited Seven Pines Elementary! The fifth grade teachers noticed that students needed some review with the fourth grade SOLs 4.7 and 4.8 (the solar system) with a connection to their fifth grade SOL 5.6 on oceans. Everyone was super pumped for a Science themed Tech Takeout, because who doesn’t …
#TechTakeout Kicks off the Year With Reading at Shady Grove!
Last Friday at Shady Grove the Tech Takeout Crew went to Shady Grove to work with around 160 4th grade students for our first Tech Takeout of the 2016-2017 school year! Tech Takeout is when a group of ITRTs travel to different elementary schools once a month to teach a technology infused lesson. This group …
#TechTakeout Goes to Donahoe!
Today at Donahoe we focused on different math skills and had A BLAST! Stephanie Wright, the ITRT at Donahoe, met with the Title I math teacher to see which areas were in most need for 4th grade math. The Tech Takeout crew headed over to Donahoe to work on comparing numbers, rounding, graphing, fractions, and …
#TechTakeout Goes to Donahoe!
Today at Donahoe we focused on different math skills and had A BLAST! Stephanie Wright, the ITRT at Donahoe, met with the Title I math teacher to see which areas were in most need for 4th grade math. The Tech Takeout crew headed over to Donahoe to work on comparing numbers, rounding, graphing, fractions, and …
Henrico History Gets a Makeover
Mrs. Anderson at Kaechele did an amazing job getting her students motivated to learn about Henrico History! She wanted to take a project that they had been doing and revamp it using technology. Together, we came up with a number of options that utilized different strengths that the students have as well as a variety …
Sweet Math in 5th Grade
My fellow HCPS ITRT, Karen Hues, had a blast in 5th grade using the Math on the Spot resources! Math on the Spot is a growing resource that our team of elementary ITRTs have started to develop for teachers and students to use. We make short videos focusing on where we encounter math in the …
Measuring in Google Slides
Using an actual ruler and using a ruler that you manipulate on the computer are two very different yet important skills. When I was in the classroom as a third grade teacher I always wished I gave the students more opportunities to manipulate rulers digitally since they will be asked to at the end of …
#TechTakeout Has Fun With Fractions At Ratcliffe
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 …
2nd Grade Postcards
In Ms. Aquilina’s 2nd grade class we had the students collaboratively working on an awesome continent project. The students researched a particular continent in groups of 3. Once they had all of their information gathered the students went to their Google Drives and opened up a folder that Ms. Aqulina and I shared with them. …
4th Grade Goes Shopping
We went shopping in Mrs. Kelley’s 4th grade class at Dumbarton Elementary. Karen Hues, a great Henrico County Elementary ITRT, did an awesome lesson with one of her teachers that I took and changed up. Karen’s lesson focused on place value with decimals, but Mrs. Kelley wanted to work on rounding decimals. I went to …
