McHenry School District

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McHenry School District 15 Collaboratory Projects
Gina Swinney...Director of Learning Jan
Hackman...Technology Integration

Coordinator Kay CollinsSixth Grade Math
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LA Teacher Ruth Shunick...Middle School
Art Teacher
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Gina talks about putting the S.T.I.C. together
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• Projects Developed
• 14 projects
• PreK-3
• Whats in a Name?
• Word Problem Super
• Solvers
• Aesops Fables
• Mighty Measurement
• Amazing Animals
• Professor Bills Well-
• Fed, Excellent Adventure

Summer Tech Integration Class S.T.I.C.
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Summer Tech Integration Class S.T.I.C.

• Fifth Grade Projects
• Trading Places The Life
• of a Colonial Tradesman
• McHenry Then and Now

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• Middle School Projects
• Greek Mythology
• The Diversified Lives of
• the Homeless
• Math Lingo
• Grab a Graph - STAT!
• WAM - Teenss Online
• Literary Magazine
• TexTiles in Time

Summer Tech Integration Class S.T.I.C.
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What Made S.T.I.C. Work?
1. Teachers were provided with a week in
the summer to construct projects 2. Computers
and resources were readily available 3.
Tech support was present all week 4. Tech
support was available when projects started
in class
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Requirements for S.T.I.C.

• Activities in projects were based on
• Illinois State Standards
• Projects supported school improvement
• plans
• 5-10 tech activities
• A rubric for project evaluation
• Projects had to be presented to the team,
• school and/or the district

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S.T.I.C.
Tech support was available for teachers during
the October Joint Institute
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TexTiles in Time
The History of Our Community
Created by McHenry Middle School 7th Grade Art,
Social Studies, Writing Students
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Oral History
Students Interviewed Community Residents
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Listen Record Photograph Write Students learned
the history of of McHenry.
Text
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Measure Cut Wax Dye Sew Students make a quilt of
city landmarks.
Textiles
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Draw Sculpt Glaze Grout Students made a ceramic
mosaic depicting McHenry.
Tiles
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TexTiles in Time
The History of Our Community
Printed Book Batik Quilt Ceramic Mosaic Archived
for the Future
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McHenry Middle Schools Online Literary Magazine
WAM
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WAM
Hear it, See it, Read it, Write it - Students
respond to entries in the literary magazine.
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riting
WAM
Write You Are! This activity asks students to
write an essay, fiction, nonfiction, poem, etc.
No matter what genre they choose, theyll be
write.
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2-D What Can it Be? This activity asks students
to apply their knowledge of art elements and
principles to create a work of art that is
realistic, abstract, or non-objective.
WAM
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3-D All Around Art This activity asks students
to create a 3-dimensional work of art.
WAM
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3-D All Around Art This activity asks students
to create a 3-dimensional work of art.
Ive Got Rhythm This activity asks students to
sing a solo or duet, jam with fellow Jazz Band
members, perform a rap or percussion.
WAM
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Grab a Graph - STAT!

• Making sense of the World of Data began with a
  graphing unit
• Students learned to read and interpret graphs, as
  well as, show trends and relationships in data
• Next, began the fun part - an Online Survey!

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What did we want to learn about other students
our age?

• Did they really know their classmates?
• Were all 6th graders alike?
• Now was their chance to find out!
• Using Inspiration software, the class
  brainstormed topics to use in survey questions.

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Questions started flying

• Students were divided into 16 groups.
• Each group came up with 10 possible survey
  questions.
• Teacher evaluation was used to narrow the
  questions down to three of their best.
• No duplicates were allowed.

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Our TIC paved the way...

• She set up groups.
• She created a direction sheet for students, and
  she demonstrated how to Create a Survey in
  Survey Studio.
• Day 1 - Laptop Lab - each group put their
  questions into Survey Studio.

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Surveys were now on the Web

• Day 2 - The class then responded to each others
  surveys.

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Lets see what is happening!

• Day 3 - Groups then viewed the results and shared
  their observations so far.

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More Students were invited...

• Other classes of 6th graders were then invited to
  answer our survey questions.
• With the help of our TIC, the process was quick
  and results were growing rapidly.
• Students were continuously checking their graphs
  to see the number of participants.

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What did we learn?

• Not all of the graphs worked correctly.
• Some of the results turned out like we predicted,
  but some of them surprised us!
• We learned that we could share our information
  quickly in several ways - bar graphs, circle
  graphs, and tables.
• We then presented our results to the class.

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What is your favorite color?
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What color of eyes do you have?
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How many books do you read a month?
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Who is your favorite author?
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What is your favorite thing to do in your free
time?
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How many hours per day do you watch TV?
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Where do you like to shop?
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What do you eat for breakfast?
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What kind of cheese do you like?
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Now what?

• We used our graphs in our next unit on Oral
  Traditions. We each created a museum display to
  show Adolescents of Today. Many of their
  graphs were used as statistical data.

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What else did the future bring?

• We studied the Stock Market and graphed company
  stock prices.
• We could show trends and relationships in data.

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Hopes for the future...

• We hope to display our stock graphs in Media
  Space.
• Recognizing propaganda in ads and misleading
  graphs will help us in the real world.

• We will be using graphing in our Probability
  unit.
• We will become leaders in the world of data!