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10/3/2016 January Newsletter Mrs. Freeman's Technology Classes One App So Many Uses! Students in K-2nd grade have all been using Google Earth, but for many different reasons! Kindergarten has used Google Earth to explore our community of Beaufort. We toured Beaufort landmarks familiar to our youngest students, such as grocery stores, the library, downtown, and our local parks. We even got to explore our own houses! It was so much fun "flying" around and seeing our beautiful town! First Graders have used Google Earth to explore space. Yes, that's right, space! We took a tour of the moon and even Mars. We compared the surfaces of Earth, Mars, and the moon. Google Earth even has embedded videos so students could watch the Apollo 11 landing! In second grade, students are also studying the big idea of communities. We used Google Earth to explore rural, urban, and suburban communities in South Carolina, the United States, and around the world. Mr. Good 3rd-5th Grade We all have been busy refreshing our memory of navigating our way around our computers, pages and keynote and beginning to learn about proper keyboarding. 3rd grade students have worked on creating an SC Symbols keynote, creating comics to follow sequence, started playing with and following tutorials and beginning writing code on Tynker and Scratch creating our own programs that show animation through scenes, engineering.com to build virtual bridges and other problem solving challenge, card tower building, and now working hard getting comfortable typing text from a written piece so we are comfortable when we have our State Testing. 4th grade students created a Native American Regions facts keynote, researched information about an important explorer and presented in SS, started playing with following and writing code on Tynker and Scratch creating our own programs that show animation through scenes, engineering.com to build virtual bridges and other problem solving challenge, card tower building, and are recording and observing our voice's sound pattern and then going to convert it into 'art'. 5th Grade has explored a simulation showing the balance and limiting factors within an ecosystem, started playing with following and writing code on Tynker and Scratch creating our own programs that show animation through scenes, engineering.com to build virtual bridges and other problem solving challenges, card tower building, and are building LEGO robots to program to complete given tasks (follow shape outlines, and going to get into using sensors!) 
Middle School We have been busy starting off trying to correct our bad typing habits re-learning keyboard skills and the ins and outs of the main computer programs. We completed a bridge project...first building a straw bridge with minimal bridge knowledge and then conducting Bridge Research and constructing paper straw bridges. Most bridges built were able to hold a load of 8 pounds with many able to hold 20-30 pounds...They did great with their designs! The kids converted their Battle Projects into a cool web-presentation format called PREZI...another neat tool to be able to share our ideas and work through. 
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