HPS IB Website

The Hickory Public Schools International Baccalaureate (IB) website was recently published online.  This site will provide parents, students, and other stakeholders with information about the IB program, including details about IB, a calendar of upcoming events, announcements, and more.  Thanks to Rachael Moyer for her hard work on this new IB site!

Civil War Presentations using PowerPoint and Prezi

Subjects:  Math, Language Arts, Social Studies

Grades:  3, 4, 5

Technology tools:  Laptop(s), LCD Projector

Tools used:  Video, Word processing, Social media tool, Communication tool

Activity type:  Lesson, Unit, Project, Research

Students researched famous people of the Civil War and created PowerPoint presentations and Prezis to present along with their costumes and tri-folds for the Civil War Wax Museum.  Students viewed videos, researched their people, printed pictures, made PowerPoint presentations, and created Prezis.  Student learned how to save their information to their individual student share folders, and send their info to themselves through email, as well as save their info on flash drive.  On the day of the Wax Museum, students used the netbooks in the mall area of our school as part of their presentations.

Students were given a full rubric for the project that included use of technology.

The activity was very successful and I would like to link the Prezis together in a movie for next year's students to view.

Janet Hambrick,

Talking Books

Subjects:  Language Arts, Information Literacy, ESL

Grade:  1

Technology tools:  Computer(s), Laptop(s), LCD Projector, Document Camera

Tools used:  Digital text / ebook, Word processing, Communication tool

Activity type:  Lesson, Project, Teacher presentation

Objectives:

·         ELA Standard #2 Reading: understanding positional words

·         Science Common Core Standard: KP.1 Physical Sciences: Relative positions and motions of objects: Position Words

I am using Microsoft PowerPoint to create a “Talking Books” small group project for my ESL students who are learning positional words.



First,  I  presented  the Berenstein Bears book “Bears in the Night” to teach several positional words (over, under, in, out, etc) to kindergarten and first grade students. After the read aloud presentation, the students echo read and used hand motions to act out the story. They enjoyed it so much that we are now in the process of creating our own “Viewmont Bears in the School” Talking Book using Powerpoint, our own digital photographs, and student-generated story using the same position words. This will then be a shared reading using the computer and the projector.

Christine Smith,  Viewmont