-by Dave Scott, Grade 8 Humanities Recently grade 8 Humanities students finished an inquiry unit that brought together an independent novel study with the creation of their own magazine. For this project students were asked to select a novel of their choice and work through a series of four writing assignments listed below. Each writing… Continue reading Grade 8 Magazine Project
By Ivy Waite, grade 9 Humanities This novel inquiry is housed online at The Scorpion Project. As students are sharing their work through blogger, building the project there as well allows us to model the use of technology that we expect to see. Novel studies are supposed to be about connecting with literature. They are… Continue reading The Scorpion Project: Novel Inquiry in Progress
Dan McWilliam – Grade 7 Humanities Augmented Reality is the digital layering of information overtop of, or in front of, the real world. This content is viewable through a digital device that places it realtime over the real world through the camera. Imagine a pair of eye glasses that could show the Facebook status or… Continue reading Aurasma: Augmented Reality in the Classroom
In the last posting I looked at the technical setup of our iPad initiative, but never really touched on our rational for the project and some of our initial realizations. That will be the focus of this posting. VISION Our interest in iPads was two-fold. We wanted to find a product that encouraged content creation… Continue reading Implementing iPads (Part 2)
-By Dan McWilliam and Jody Pereverzoff, Grade 7 HumanitiesWe were looking for a way for our students to make a connection with life in early Canada. After reading the Real time WWII Twitter, we realized this would be an effective way to bridge modern communication with the Canadian immigrant experiences Pre Confederation. Students would assume… Continue reading Real Time Settlement
– by Scott Petronech BACKGROUND During the 2010-2011 school year, we discussed the idea of implementing an iPad project. We were having problems finding school-based evaluations on mobile devices and decided to implement a pilot project where staff could apply to receive an iPad to integrate into their classroom routines and lessons. This group of… Continue reading Implementing iPads @ CSS
-By Dean Schmeichel, PE Teacher Why this project? For the past few years I have been recording conversations (audio versions) at one of the term ends; whether it was term 1 or term 2 depended on the time commitment and how much procrastination I had done prior to November. These conversations were valuable, but not… Continue reading Using Video for Term-End PE Assessment
-by Jody Pereverzoff, Grade 7 Humanities This reflection is based on the Pre-Confederation Canadian History Unit, Determining Historical Significance (reference Determining Historical Significance and Determining Historical Significance Part II) This unit required students to work individually, as well as collaboratively, to demonstrate their understanding. The discussions were thoughtful, and rating the events using the historical… Continue reading iPads in the History Classroom – A Teacher Reflection
– by Jody Pereverzoff, Grade 7 Humanities In this unit, students discussed and evaluated events in Canada by rating them using the historical significance criteria found on the website: Historical Benchmark Society. They then created timelines to demonstrate their evaluations and get a better sense, visually, of how each event was connected. This blog focuses… Continue reading Determining Historical Significance Part II
-by Margaret Leland, Grade 8 Humanities Teacher I found it curious the day after Steve Jobs died that I overheard some of the students wondering who the image on our Apple start page was and, moreover, that they didn’t take the time to investigate. After all, that’s what we do at CSS. I then thought… Continue reading Steve Jobs, Modern Day Renaissance Man?
