It’s worth learning to type!!
While many of us learned to type or keyboard in high school, and it is still taught at this level, the need to learn correct keyboarding position and skills shows itself whenever I watch elementary or...
View ArticleEnjoying our photos in our technology classes!
In our Creative Tech and Digital Photography classes, we are enjoying composing and editing our photos! One fun site to try is BeFunky, a photo editing and effects site. From their website, “Choose...
View ArticleAwesome creativity site – Kerpoof!
Today in our Tech 1-4 class, we experimented with a fun creativity site called Kerpoof! Created by the Disney company, it is an online interactive cartoon building site, which is awesome for problem...
View ArticleNew White Board Animations!!
Our new Stop Motion class is on their way to creating White Board Animations. Our first project was to use a small white board and several colors of pens to create a short video – with the goal of just...
View ArticleMath 5 & 6 learns about mean! and how expensive our cars are!!
Over the last month and a half, we have been learning about multiplying decimals, especially when using money. For data, we each picked out a car we might like to buy and calculated the final cost for...
View ArticleCheck out our solar system models!
In both of our math/science classes (STEM) for 3rd & 4th grade, 5th & 6th grade, we have been learning about the relative size of the planets, and their relative distance to the Sun. Models are...
View ArticleIt’s here! The new PARADE Times is here!
Want to learn about Wild Turkeys? or what in the world an “olm” is? How about more news regarding Minecraft? Open up this month’s issue of PARADE TIMES November 2012 to find out about all of these and...
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Lunar Design Challenge
Congratulations, scientists! We have success! The 5th & 6th grade science students have been learning the Engineering & Design Process through modifying a standardized vehicle to meet several...
View ArticleThe Hour of Code is here!!
PARADE students tried the Hour of Code in our Creative Tech classes and wrote many, many lines of code. Hour of Code is a global endeavor to expose young people to computer science as a 21st century...
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Exploring Code.org
Try me! Try me! Students in PARADE have access to several computer science classes – Problem Solving, Python Basics, and Robotics, to name a few. But we always enjoy seeing what’s new on the Code.org...
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