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= HMS Resources For Learning  =





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HMS Wikis

 * Wikis are one of the most powerful tools of Web 2.0. The implications for education are immense. We are teaching students who have grown up in a digital world and need to see the relevance of the topics we are covering. Wikis provide a way to make classroom content relevant as well as technology content. Students will be allowed to take part in a collaborative experience that will be useful in their later job experiences.**

Rossi's Wiki - Grade 7
 * English**

Valentine's Wiki - Grade 6 Hilko's wiki - Grade 7 Ralutz's Wiki - Grade 7
 * Reading**
 * Dr. VanMaele's Wiki**

Pillar's Wiki - Grade 7 [|Shumaker's Wiki - Grade 7] D'Ambrosio's Wiki - Grade 8
 * History**
 * Lagnese's Wiki - Grade 6**

Ferrero's Wiki - Garde 6 Miller's Wiki - Grade 8
 * Math**

Pickett's Wiki - Spanish 1 - Grade 8
 * Spanish**

Cohen's Wiki - Grades 6-8
 * Math Summer Program**

Pickett's, Scott's and Geary's Wiki - Grade 8
 * Career Class For Grade 8**

[|Library's Wiki]
 * Library**

Rigor and Relevance Teacher's Wiki
 * Rigor and Relevance**

Spring's Wiki
 * Language - German**


 * Drama Club - Mrs. Shumaker created this wiki for parent communication**
 * HMS Drama**


 * Technology Education**
 * Scott's Wiki **

Web 2.0 Tools and Resources:
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 * Library Resources**

http://cffresources.wikispaces.com/
 * 21st Century Resource Wiki by Andrew Halter, Hampton's CFF Instructional Coach**
 * Web 2.0 Tools used in the classroom**

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HMS WebQuests

 * A WebQuest is defined, by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University, as "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet."**

[|Pillar's Africa Web Quest For History] - Grade 7

[|Laurie Christy's Math WebQuest for Math] - Grade 7

Ferrero's and Bukovac's 6th Grade WebQuest for Math - Geometric Gardens

Miller's Saving For College WebQuest - Grade 8

= Web Sites =

Jay D'Ambrosio - 8th Grade History
**Adventures in American History ** [|http://america.eteaching101.com] This is my classroom site that I designed to use on a regular basis with students. It was named a "Best Bet in Education" by USA Today. This site provides interactive online resources for American, ancient, and world history including educational games, videos, simulated chats with historical characters, and an educational alternate reality game.

**The Hexagon Challenge ** [|http://hexagon.eteaching101.com] The Hexagon Challenge is an educational alternate reality game (ARG) in which students will attempt to solve a mystery by infiltrating a secret society, answering initiation questions regarding history, science, mathematics, world languages, and the arts. They will contact and be contacted by various fictitious characters via email, telephone, and instant messenger who will provide clues that enable them to continue their quest to discover the truth about a mysterious artifact known only as the Hexagon. Up to six extra credit points will be awarded along the way. This project was awarded a 2010 PBS Teacher Innovation Award.

**Liberty's Wiki ** http://libertyswiki.wikispaces.com Liberty's Wiki is a wiki I created for my students last year. It features a fictional historian from Washington D.C. named "Dr. George Hugh." I use this site as a part of a new educational alternate reality game (similar to the Hexagon Challenge). It is also used to feature student Web-based projects.

http://libertyswiki.wikispaces.com/1800-1850projects **PastChat** [|http://pastchat.eteaching101.com] I designed this site to simulate a chat experience with characters from the past, including Harriet Tubman, Aristotle, and Ramses the Great. Students then answer discussion questions based on their chats.

[|http://brain.eteaching101.com] This is your brain on power point. I developed this site to complement an inservice program I created called "This is your brain on power point." It highlights ways that we can incorporate brain-based teaching techniques into our PowerPoint presentations.

**Jennifer Rossi - Grade 7 - English** https://rossienglish.wikispaces.com/Medieval+Fashion This is a project that we complete in English to coincide with our reading of the Canterbury Tales and the study of Medieval History in 7th grade. We complete this research project to help to bring to life the literature we are reading, but also to prepare our students for our Medieval Day celebration in May. The students are assigned roles to play at our celebration, and they must first research the fashion of their role.

https://rossienglish.wikispaces.com/Book+Cafe
This is a link to the Book Café that the Explorer team runs quarterly throughout the school year. Students are exposed to a variety of genres of books with Mrs. Andrle, the librarian, then required to check out a novel and read it independently. Students then return to their Learning Styles Inventory that they have completed in reading class to help guide them through our differentiated project choices, and they complete a café project independently. In English class, students spend time writing about their novels to practice summarization and writing opinion paragraphs, and their writing helps to guide the discussion when we visit Book Café. On the day of the café, it is “all hands on deck” as Mrs. Hilko, Mrs. Rossi, Mrs. Adrle, and Mrs. Winters (the library aide), decorate the library with seasonal touches, and turn this room into a real “Café.” We serve cider in the fall, cocoa in the winter, etc, and the students are greeted with soft music playing as they are eagerly welcomed into the Café. Treats are served and students are grouped based on similarities and/or differences in their novels. Discussion of the books is guided by a guide sheet, as we teach the students how to discuss literature outside of the classroom, and hopefully, create some life-long readers. The café ends with each student sharing their favorite passage from their novels, and then trading their written summaries with another person at their table. The students must then respond to each other, in writing, about whether that their classmate’s novel appealed to them.

**Greg Shumaker - Grade 7 - History Web Site**
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**Angela Lamars - 7th Grade Science Web Site**
Science Links posted are used in the 7th grade science classes, with labs, as labs, for review or as Internet []

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**Pauline Spring's German Interactive sites used by students:** [] [] [] [] [|http://www.mamalisa.com] []