Mrs. Renz's 4th Grade Class  Redmond, Oregon

 

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Technology Projects for Term 1

                  2005-2006 

Use the Internet to complete digital labs in the JASON Expedition "Mysteries of Earth and Mars" curriculum, use online journals, and explore the JASON website
Use MS Excel to create graphs after surveying classmates.
USE MS Word to write a list of favorites (review skills - selecting font, size, color, centering, saving properly).

Use Microsoft Word to publish a poem and insert clip art (as needed or desired).

Use MS Power Point to create a geometry slideshow.  Use a digital camera or MS Paint to illustrate your geometry terms.  (extra credit math assignment)
Write Polygon Riddles using MS Word.  Include an answer.
Use the computer to take Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math tests.
Use MS Word to write letters to our fourth grade pen pals in Taiwan and pen pals in Indiana
Participate in a collaborative writing/drawing "Alien from Mars" Project with our pen pal class and post the results on our website.

 

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Technology Projects for Term 2

Use the Internet to complete digital labs in the JASON Expedition curriculum.  Write online journal entries.
In student research groups, research a specific part of the JASON expedition content.
Create a timeline of a famous person's life using Inspiration.  Insert clip art and save the document as an html file.  Sample timeline #2.
Biography Research: Research the life of a famous person using our website.  Type and edit your report using MS . Use and insert clip art and word art.  Cite sources of photos used.  
Use the computer to take Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math tests.
Create a digital video that we will turn into a Windows Movie Maker movie to send to our pen pals.

 

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Technology Projects for Term 3

Write lots and lots of poems for the May book project and us MS Word to word process and illustrate them.  
Use the Internet and our classroom website to check your stock market prices and draw a line graph of your daily stock prices using MS Excel.
Research life on the Oregon Trail using our website.
Use the computer to take Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math tests.
Write pen pal letters to U.S. soldiers using MS Word.  Insert clip art and format the text to fit the page.