Technology Use Assessments | Curriculum Integration and Enhancement: Council Grove High School, Council Grove Middle and Elementary School, Prairie Heights Middle and Elementary Schools

Curriculum Integration and Enhancement

Prairie Heights Middle and Elementary Schools

a. Reading is a targeted area of the School Improvement Plan. The programs Inspiration (5-8) and Kidspiration (K-4) are used to help with the selected strategy of concept mapping to improve reading comprehension.

b. Students in the elementary and middle school use the Accelerated Reader to improve reading skills and students in the middle school use Accelerated Math to improve math skills.

c. The new math curriculum includes a technology component that enhances the learning from the textbook.

d. Social studies curriculums incorporate the technology tools of HyperStudio, Netscape Composer, and Imovie to create reports and projects to demonstrate learning that is taking place in the classroom. These tools help students to take information and report back to the class using a multi-media format.

e. The science department at the middle school uses a technology lab to teach science concepts. One of the components of the technology lab is to work with students on problem solving and critical writing. The critical writing component is graded using the six trait writing model.

f. The technology lab also teaches the following science principles using technology resources: health & fitness, computer aided drafting, computer graphics & animation, electricity & electronics, environment & ecology, flight technology, lasers, material processing, research & development, robotics, and structural engineering.

g. Research plays an important part of various curriculums in the middle school and the students use the internet as a tool for research. Students are taught how to search the internet and how to choose appropriate and meaningful information from the net.

h. Writing is addressed at all levels using the programs KidsWorks, ClarisWorks, and Microsoft Word as tools to help students organize and communicate their thoughts on paper.

i. Students use the programs Paws and All The Right Type to help them learn keyboarding skills so that as they write, they are not focusing just on the letters of the keyboard, but can focus more on getting their thoughts down on paper.

 

 

Last Updated March 3, 2003