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1. Welcome to the Museum of Technology Ss. Peter & Paul School Kindergarten Museum Entrance Grade Two Grade Three Grade One Grade Four More

2. Grades 5-8 Technology Ss. Peter & Paul School Online Student Center Museum Entrance Grade Six Grade Seven Grade Five Grade Eight Curator’s Offices Back

3. Mrs. Ruthy O’Malley & Mrs. Nancy Fitzgerald Curators Curator’s Office Our technology curriculum exposes the students to keyboarding, word processing, graphics, multimedia development, digital imagery, electronic graphic organizers, spreadsheets, databases, desktop publishing, graphing, map and timeline work, streaming videos, electronic sourcing for research, web activities including WebQuests, virtual field trips, inquiry-based learning projects, web essays, and web page development. Students are also provided with online test-taking and electronic skill-building with differentiated learning. Most recently, the 8th graders completed an online science unit. This program is coordinated with classroom teachers to enhance the curriculum and create an authentic learning environment. Return K-4 Return 5-8 Mrs. O’Malley – omalleysspp@yahoo.com Mrs. Fitzgerald – sspptechie@yahoo.com

4. 1st Grade Room 1 Penguins Beginning Consonant Sounds Good Friday Careers Return to Entry

5. 2nd Grade Room 2 Autoshapes Careers KidPix Slideshows Online Explorations Return to Entry

6. 3rd Grade Room 3 Haiku Keyboarding Draggable Division Internet Safety Return to Entry

7. 4th Grade Room 4 Animal Research Rebus Sentences Rosary PowerPoint The Real Gifts Return to Entry

8. 5th Grade Room 5 Charts & Graphs Planet Research Poetry Presentation Biography Research Return to Entry

9. 6th Grade Room 5 Fortunately PowerPoint Mesopotamia WebQuest Rome Inspiration Graphic Organizer Greek Gazette Probability Mona Lisa Return to Entry

10. 7th Grade Room 5 Timberlee Virtual World Tour CAD Drawings Buddy Project RRR Project Return to Entry

11. 8th Grade Room 5 Virtual Frog Dissections Internet Safety Posters Merged Letter & Database 3D CAD Drawings Movie Editing HTML Return to Entry

12. Kindergarten Room 1 Opposites Alphabet My House Addition Return to Entry

13. Beginning Consonant Sounds The 1st graders began the year with identification of the different parts of the computer, opening and closing programs, and saving. Curriculum ties Reinforced within the lab included telling time, counting money, basic math skills, consonant sounds, and word sequencing. Return to 1st Grade

14. Penguins The 1st graders completed a penguin template and typed in sentences about them. This reinforced the penguin unit completed in the classroom. Return to 1st Grade

15. Careers The students located their pictures in their class folders and learned how to insert them into Word. Using the picture tool bar, they worked with the "Crop" button to cut and shape the pictures of themselves. The 1st graders also learned how to center the pictures and create borders. Return to 1st Grade

16. Good Friday • The 1st graders drew pictures and • tailored stamps to depict a scene from • the Stations of the Cross in preparation • For Easter. Return to 1st Grade

17. Careers The students located their pictures in their class folders and learned how to insert them into Word. Using the picture tool bar, they worked with the "Crop" button to cut and shape the pictures of themselves. The 2nd graders also learned how to center the pictures and create borders. Return to 2nd Grade

18. AutoShapes The 2nd Graders also learned how to make shapes using auto-shapes in MS Word. They created several different hearts and “filled” each one with different color. Next they learned how to insert Word Art. Return to 2nd Grade

19. Online Exploration The 2nd graders completed online explorations that reinforced classroom curriculum as follows: Draggable Subtraction: Students entered the numbers 5, 3, and 2 to set up their problems and the number of digits to subtract. Wall of Words: Students played Wall of words, where they dragged scrambled  words to make a sentence, it started with 5 words once the wall was built, it switched to 7 words.  They had to add 5 layers of brick and they had 1 minute to do it. Return to 2nd Grade

20. KidPix Slideshows The 2nd graders composed short stories and created multimedia slideshows in KidPix. They used their keyboarding, drawing, saving and insertion skills. They added transitions and sounds to their finished products. KidPix is suitable for younger students because it allows them to “draw” and be more imaginative. Return to 2nd Grade Click here for a sample.

21. Keyboarding The 3rd graders learned all the letters and symbols of the keyboard. They worked Primarily in the Mavis Beacon program, But also reinforced their skills doing online keyboard practice. Return to 3rd Grade

22. Haiku The 3rd graders created Haiku’s in conjunction with the language arts curriculum. They wrote their creative poems during class time and typed them into the Print Artist program. Next, they inserted images and copied and pasted their work into Microsoft Word. Return to 3rd Grade

23. Internet Safety The 3rd graders completed an online study about Internet Safety. They explored the site and learned about cyber bullying and the importance of not providing personal information, navigating safely, and online netiquette. Return to 3rd Grade

24. Draggable Division The 3rd graders completed online explorations that reinforced classroom curriculum as follows: Draggable Division - Students entered the numbers 5, 3 and 1 and clicked on the circle next to “No Remainder” to set the problems up. Return to 3rd Grade

25. Rebus Sentences The 4th graders worked on their typing skills in Mavis Beacon, and kept track of their speed by creating progress charts in Microsoft Excel each week. Using their typing skills, the students created Rebus sentences in Word and imported images from PrintArtist, gaining practice in the ability to switch between two different programs. Return to 4th Grade

26. Animal Research The 4th graders were assigned an animal to investigate and used the San Diego Zoo site to locate their data and complete their research. Return to 4th Grade

27. Rosary PowerPoint The 4th Graders created PowerPoint presentations on the mysteries of The rosary. Return to 4th Grade Click here for a sample.

28. The “Real Gifts” of Christmas The students created a nativity scene in Print Artist entitled: "THE REAL GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS". They surrounded the picture with words like: Comfort, Love, 2nd Chances, Wonder, Peace, Charity, Joy, Faith, Trust, Hope, Compassion, Reassurance, Rejoicing, and Courage. Return to 4th Grade

29. Planet Research The 5th graders were assigned a planet to investigate and used the “Welcome to the Planets” site to locate their data and find an image. Return to Exhibit

30. Charts and Graphs The 5th graders entered data into spreadsheets and then generated graphs at Create A Graph, and online site. Return to 5th Grade

31. Research Students are completed an 8 slide presentation for their Social Studies research project using PowerPoint. Return to 5th Grade Click here for a sample.

32. Poetry Presentation Poetry presentations were created to display haiku's, limericks, rhymes and acrostic Poetry. First the 5th graders completed worksheets on the four types of poetry; and then they made up their own. Next they put their poetry together In multi-media presentations where they added images and buttons to create non-linear presentations. Return to 5th Grade Click here for a sample.

33. Probability Graphing Project The 6th graders conduct a short probability study to reinforce a math lesson. The group rolls a virtual die 20 times and data is recorded into a spreadsheet. After all numbers have been entered, students learn how to autosum each column (1-6) to determine total times each number came up. A 3D pie graph is then generated using this information. Return to 6th Grade

34. Mesopotamia WebQuest The 6th graders access an online project entitled “The Mesopotamia Museum is Empty!” Students then worked in pairs and chose an accomplishment to research. They used a graphic organizer to template to answer questions about the accomplish- ment and keep track of resources. The final product was a 5 slide presentation that included a short movie clip. Students were also required to add a gradient background, custom animations and Transitions. Click here for sample. Return to 6th Grade

35. Fortunately The students completed an interactive book based upon Fortunately by Remi Charlip. This project involved groups using a graphic organizer to plan their original story. Each student in the group then created his/her page in PowerPoint. Once complete the 6th graders learned how to coordinate their font selections, grayscale "Unfortunately" pages, and string multiple slides into one presentation. The final projects were presented as multimedia stories using the SmartBoard. Return to 6th Grade Click here for a sample presentation.

36. Greek Gazette The 6th graders worked in groups to create a "Greek Gazette" with Microsoft Publisher. Working in groups, the students researched ancient Greece and wrote articles as if they were reporters living in that time. Return to 6th Grade

37. Rome Inspiration Graphic Organizers Using their knowledge of the graphic organizer program, the 6th graders completed webbed maps about the ancient Roman culture.  They also created interactive timelines of their own lives. The program allows them to include graphics, create hyperlinks, and insert movies clips. Return to 6th Grade

38. Mona Lisa The students covered various artists of the Renaissance in Social Studies and we tied our Mona Lisa project to this unit. Digital photographs of the students were transformed into "Monas".  Using a draw program, students discovered how to cut a photo and layer it onto an existing image of Mona Lisa. They also used the software tools to soften edges, colorize, transparency, and match two image colors with the paint dropper tool to create their “masterpieces”. Return to 6th Grade

39. Virtual World Tour The 7th Graders completed a latitude/longitude activity and were Introduced to a map program. Next they utilized the tools to locate latitude/longitudes of various cities around the world and recorded them into spread- sheets. From this, the students created a "World Tour" using Google Earth. Return to 7th Grade

40. Timberlee The 7th graders used Microsoft PhotoStory to create photo slideshows of their Timberlee Outdoor Ed experience. The students chose from photos of the trip that were saved into a central networked file. They added text, animations, photo effects and sound to create a movie memory. Click on here to play a sample. Return to 7th Grade

41. Little Buddy Project The 7th graders developed an interactive multimedia PowerPoint story based on The Gingerbread Man. This project began with the creation of graphic organizers using the Inspiration program to plan the story and the students then used the information to create their presentations. The 7th graders then taught their 1st grade little buddies how to record and insert sound and animations into the PowerPoint projects. Click on here to play a sample. Return to 7th Grade

42. CAD Drawings The students began the project by visiting “Building Big” to learn about the physics and structure of buildings. They also used the Internet to research their selected building. Next they used Google SketchUp to complete the tutorials that provided information about how to manipulate shapes and tools within the program. For science class they researched and collaborated with partners to create short reports about the buildings. They also constructed a 3D model of the buildings at home to display in the school’s hobby fair. Return to 7th Grade

43. RRR PowerPoint The students created interactive multi- media project with words from the school logo. Each student in the group developed one slide and then learned how to string them together into one presentation. They inserted movie clips, sound files and added buttons to advance the slides. Click here for a sample. The words “Religion”, “Respect” and “Responsibility” are buttons to click on. Return to 7th Grade

44. Internet Safety Posters Desktop Publishing The students created Internet safety posters in Microsoft Publisher after discussing and viewing streaming videos on the subject and completing a WebQuest. Return to 8th Room

45. Virtual Frog Dissections The 8th graders completed a virtual frog dissection using a program called “Biolab Frog” in the lab. Next they visited http://www.froguts.com to complete another lab online before performing actual frog dissections in science class. Return to Entrance Return to 8th Room

46. 3D CAD Drawings The students chose a building from the parish campus to render in 3D using Google Sketchup. Click here for movie samples. Return to Entrance Return to 8th Room

47. Merging Letters & Databases The 8th graders worked in pairs to complete the Civil War – A Nation Divided WebQuest. (See link below.) The project called for them to write letters to each other as soldiers in the Civil War (one as a Confederate soldier and the other as a Union soldier). First, they organized their ideas in a graphic organizer and then typed their letters. To extend the lesson, the students created databases in Excel and subsequently learned how to merge the information together to generate multiple letters. This lesson included instruction about how to create fields and records, sort, and filter information in a spread- sheet. In Word, they created merge fields to coincide with their databases and learned the significance of using auto-dates in letters. Return to 8th Room

48. Web Page Development The 8th graders learned how to create web pages using html coding. They were very creative and incorporated formatting changes, bulleted lists, and target links. Some ventured further and added music and Java scripts. A later assignment called for them to use a WYSIWYG program called Kompozer to create a website consisting several pages. Click here for a sample of the “What Am I” website. Return to 8th Room

49. Movie Editing The 8th The movie editing project involved creating an instructional video using Microsoft MovieMaker. They started with assorted film clips on bullying and cliques and learned how to insert text, transitions and make cuts. Final projects were burned on cds for use by other students in the school. Click herefor a sample of an edited movie. (Please be patient since this is a large file! Return to 8th Room

50. Opposites • The Kindergarteners located two • images of opposites and used • stamps to “type” the words. Return to Kindergarten