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Examples of Classroom Activities |
Web Site Project
O'Bryant |
- Students learn advanced web design and management skills.
- Students master HTML, the basic web design programming language.
- Students design templates, planning guides, and layout sheets to facilitate their final product.
- Students design complex web pages using page layout techniques.
- Students learn to create extensions, add media, data, and other objects.
- Students learn to use industry software such as Flash, Dreamweaver, and the Adobe web authoring programs.
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School to Career Pathway Video Project
Brighton |
- Explore project feasibility
- Determine project needs and cost
- Establish project time line, form teams, assign timeline tasks
- Write scripts
- Use video camcorders, editing equipment and digital cameras
- Research project related issues
- Create production storyboard
- Determine production details: video and audio track, special effects and production roles
- Participate in set design: identify sound effects/music
- Conduct rehearsal, reassess production plans
- Develop production checklist: set design sketch, sound on tape, production role sign-in and timetable
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Westie Water Wars Project
West Roxbury |
- Water test and document procedures on video
- Students use computer and Internet research methods, surveys and press conferences to gather pertinent information
- Research issues on Internet Electric Library, Galenet, and World Wide Web search engines (Google.com) Products: Webography of Web sites; articles annotated
- Create and administer surveys and chart results.
- Write a team script with visual, i.e. storyboard for water conservation campaign
- Production of TV news feature with editorials, 30-60 second Public Service Announcement (PSA) or Talk Show. Product: Script includes video and audio track, special effects and production roles
- Collect props, design sets, identify sound effects/music, rehearse, polish production plan. Products: Prop checklist, set design sketch, sound on tape, production role sign-in and timetable
- Produce video. Products: News feature, editorials, PSA and Talk Show
- Integrate new data from retesting water and documentary results. Products: Comparative graphs and documentaries included in script.
- Produce video. Products: News feature, editorials, PSA and Teen Talk Show.
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Business Plan (NFTE) Project
East Boston |
- Students look at business plans from previous years
- Former students present their plans from previous years
- Develop the idea. The whole plan is based on exploring/researching one idea and expanding it.
- Analyze customer needs
- Conduct market research by researching costs and analyzing market research data to determine the feasibility of the business idea
- Present ideas and research analysis to class members and use their feedback effectively
- In writing, describe the business idea, detail the marketing research and analyze the possible competition for such an idea
- Organize ideas and write an outline for an oral presentation of the business idea
- Analyze different business structures to determine the best one for a particular business idea
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One in a Million Class Fund Project
Charlestown |
- Create a class fund from scratch by inventing a name, opening a business bank account, writing a letter to the public, and creating promotional materials.
- Determine a share price and sell certificates of ownership in the class fund.
- Create a contract to go along with certificates, explaining terms of the investment.
- Research investments by using multiple resources: Wall Street Journal, Quicken.com, surveys, ValueLine investment survey, etc.
- Understand and analyze earnings reports, P/E ratios, financial stability, dividend payments, etc for all companies researched.
- Monitor progress of portfolio on daily basis. Chart results.
- Write a report on the status of the fund and present it to investors. This midterm report is followed by a final report that investors receive upon the close of the fund.
- Present ideas in written investment proposals and in presentations to class.
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ETA / City Build
Mary Baker Eddy Entryway Structural Design Project
Dorchester |
- In the beginning stage, students meet with a team composed of a consultant, engineer, architect, and project manager of the Baker House to study the scope of the entire design.
- Students develop graphic design skills that will allow them to complete the project.
- Students conduct internet research to compare different design styles and specifications.
- Students develop their own sets of criteria to better read Blueprints.
- Students use freehand drawing and CAD software for the project.
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From pH to Parkland Project
Charlestown |
- Complete chemical tests of water in three test locations
- Graph data
- Summarize data
- Complete bird biodiversity survey
- Infer habitat quality from bird survey results
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Books and Bookings Project
East Boston |
- Read assigned literature
- Explore different cultures and time periods connected to the literature
- Research, write, and present findings on the geographical, historical and literary aspects of the Boston area
- Market destinations through brochures and oral presentations
- Book travel reservations and plan tours
- Write scripts and tour sheets
- Write thank-you letters, newspaper articles
- Plan and present multimedia projects
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Children's Books - Read Them! Share Them! Write Them!
Boston High and West Roxbury |
- Reading, discussing, and critiquing children's books
- Researching children's literature on the Internet
- Learning how to use a story map (graphic organizer)
- Using a short story map to create a short story
- Writing a children's story with the five elements of the short story
- Setting, characters, conflict, plot, resolution)
- Learning how to Read Aloud to engage an audience of young children
- Students create their own children's book and integrate different technologies into the product so it looks professional
- Students learn how to organize and time manage their product so it is completed on time
- Students work in pairs and cooperative groups to complete their projects and practice skills
- Students write a reflection essay on the children's book project
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Codman Square Lead Contamination Initiative
Dorchester |
- At the beginning of the project, students brainstorm dangers of environmental contamination, and causes of lead contamination, and try to offer solutions to those problems.
- Students develop working definitions of environment and justice.
- Students pretest their present knowledge about lead and lead poisoning.
- Students conduct internet research to develop a list of the ten most important facts about lead poisoning.
- Students evaluate and rank lead-related sites.
- Students examine data from the Health Centers 1999 Community Survey.
- Students analyze data regarding asthma.
- Students discuss the importance of collecting data, clustering, identifying high-risk areas and how programs are created to address health and environmental issues.
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Narrowing the Digital Divide by Building Computers Project
J.E. Burke |
- Learn how computers work by identifying parts and learning hands-on the function of each part
- Problem solve and trouble shoot actual problems that are set up on a demo computer
- Test parts and return unusable parts to the Enabling Center for appropriate recycling
- Students catalog parts
- Students collect needed parts to build their computers
- Students assemble computer
- Test computer
- Complete a PowerPoint presentation of the steps involved in both upgrading and building a computer
- Form groups for video part of project
- Write script
- Assign parts
- Practice with consultant
- Produce and edit final version of video
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TechAssist - Helping Schools Help Themselves
Madison Park |
- Learn to diagnose, classify, and document various kinds of problems in working and non-working school computers.
- Learn elementary troubleshooting procedures.
- Return computers with minor problems to school service
- Learn to clean up disk space, de-fragment hard drives and run computer utilities that improve computer performance.
- Learn intermediate procedures of computer troubleshooting
- Learn to install and uninstall Microsoft OfficeLearn to install Windows DOS, 95/98, 2000 operating systems
- Learn to partition and format hard drives, diagnose and troubleshoot more advanced problems
- Learn to install Network Operating System (NT)
- Learn to set computers up so that they are network ready
- Learn to communicate and articulate problems and solutions to people who are having problems with their computers
- Learn to process aspects of referral, service, and production operations related to managing a computer tech support service
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