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=**Year 2 K - Grade 5 Curriculum Inquiry Projects - Round One**=

Post a summary for each project being designed by teachers participating in the Second Year Technology For Learning Project. Complete the basic information fields AND attach a file of your "HEAT Student Performance Task" -


 * Technology Support Person - Shari Williams**
 * Designing Student-Performance Tasks****Template****(Doc):**
 * Project Summary:** Students learned about different human rights through the study of a variety of texts. They made comparisons/ contrasts, and made connections. Students showed their final connection to a human right of their choice by creating a comic life that presents a violation of a human right, and then shows a resolution.
 * Project Title || Human Rights in Comics ||
 * School / Teacher Name || Forest Grove School - Shari Williams ||
 * Grade Level || 5 ||
 * Content Area || Language Arts ||
 * Driving Question || How will students show text to self or text to world connections to human rights that have been studied. ||
 * Scenario Task || You have come across a human rght that has been violated, and must resolve the conflict in a Comic Life presentation. ||
 * TYPE of Communication || Persuasive ||
 * MODE of Communication || Comic Life ||
 * Student Digital Product || media type="custom" key="12220430"

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 * Other Supporting Documents || [[file:Forest+Grove+StudentTask.doc]][[file:Student Learning Profile.docx]][[file:Comic Life Criteria.docx]] ||


 * Technology Support Person -** **Tamzen Kulyk**
 * Designing Student-Performance Tasks** **Template** **(Doc):**
 * Project Summary:** Communicating understanding in math
 * Project Title || xxxxxxxx ||
 * School / Teacher Name || Hugh Cairns/Jessica Smart ||
 * Grade Level || Grade 5 ||
 * Content Area || Math ||
 * Driving Question || In what ways can I demonstrate/represent my understanding in math and what strategies did I use to help me? ||
 * Scenario Task ||  ||
 * TYPE of Communication || Narrative and Informative ||
 * MODE of Communication ||  ||
 * Student Digital Product || [] ||
 * Other Supporting Documents ||  ||

sort various objects in our classroom environment? ||
 * Technology Support Person - Bojana Krienke**
 * Designing Student-Performance Tasks** **Template** **(Doc):**
 * Project Summary:** We were studying sorting during math and PWIM. We used this project to show various ways of sorting and to explain our choosen sorting rule.
 * Project Title || Sorting ||
 * School / Teacher Name || B.V./Bojana Krienke ||
 * Grade Level || K ||
 * Content Area || Math & PWIM ||
 * Driving Question || What are all the ways that we can
 * Scenario Task ||  ||
 * TYPE of Communication || Narrative ||
 * MODE of Communication || Voicethread ||
 * Student Digital Product || [] ||
 * Other Supporting Documents ||  ||
 * Technology Support Person - Kristen Smith**
 * Designing Student-Performance Tasks** **Template** **(Doc):**
 * Project Summary:[[file:Student Learning.docx]]**
 * Project Title || xxxxxxxx ||
 * School / Teacher Name || Fairhaven- L. Seible ||
 * Grade Level || 1 ||
 * Content Area || LA ||
 * Driving Question || What are the traits of a good reader. ||
 * Scenario Task || The TL has asked you to create a PSA of reading strategies for the other beginner readers in the school. ||
 * TYPE of Communication || PSA ||
 * MODE of Communication || ComicLife ||
 * Student Digital Product || [[file:comiclifequientin.pdf]][[file:sarafinal.pdf]] ||
 * Other Supporting Documents ||  ||


 * Technology Support Person - Dawn Morgan**
 * Designing Student-Performance Tasks** **Template** **(Doc):[[file:DESIGNING_student_task_2010.doc]][[file:Student Learning Profile.doc]]**
 * Project Summary:** Students understanding and explaining the use of visualization
 * Project Title || xxxxxxxx ||
 * School / Teacher Name || Mayfair/Kevin Nelson ||
 * Grade Level || 2 ||
 * Content Area || L.A. ||
 * Driving Question || What is visualization and why do we use it? ||
 * Scenario Task ||  ||
 * TYPE of Communication ||  ||
 * MODE of Communication || flip cameras and voice thread ||
 * Student Digital Product || []

media type="custom" key="12220092" ||
 * Other Supporting Documents ||  ||
 * Technology Support Person - Dawn Morgan**
 * Designing Student-Performance Tasks** **Template** **(Doc):[[file:magnet designing task.doc]]**
 * Project Summary:** The students will pose a question related to the characteristics of magnetic forces. In a small group, students will demonstrate and explain a magnet experiment by creating a 'how to video'. The glogster design includes: the original question, how to magnet experiment video, explanation, images, text and audio.
 * Project Title || Magnet Inquiry ||
 * School / Teacher Name || Dr. John G. Egnatoff/Kerri Nakoneshny ||
 * Grade Level || 3 ||
 * Content Area || Science ||
 * Driving Question || Inquiry – What do my students want to learn about magnets? This project will focus on student driven questions . ||
 * Scenario Task || Science Curricular Connection ME3 Indicator: The students will pose questions related to the characteristics of magnetic forces . ||
 * TYPE of Communication || Expository writing - how to video ||
 * MODE of Communication || glogster/movie maker/audacity ||
 * Student Digital Product || [] ||
 * Other Supporting Documents || [[file:Magnetglogrubric.pdf]] ||


 * Technology Support Person - Danny Jutras**
 * Designing Student-Performance Tasks** **Template** **(Doc):**
 * Project Summary:** As a wrap up to our Independent Novel Study, students created book trailers using Windows Movie Maker. The task was to effectively advertise the novel and capture the feel of the story through use of images, text and music.
 * Project Title || Independent Novel Studies - Book Trailers ||
 * School / Teacher Name || Buena Vista / Danny Jutras ||
 * Grade Level || 5/6 ||
 * Content Area || Language Arts ||
 * Driving Question || Can we effectively advertise a novel in the same ways that hollywood producers advertise a movie? ||
 * Scenario Task || Create book trailers to advertise the novel you read in your Independent Novel Study ||
 * TYPE of Communication ||  ||
 * MODE of Communication || Windows Movie Maker ||
 * Student Digital Product || media type="file" key="midnightmagic.wmv" width="300" height="300" ||
 * Other Supporting Documents ||  ||
 * Technology Support Person - Brian Gurney**
 * Designing Student-Performance Tasks** **Template** **(Doc):**
 * Project Summary:**
 * Project Title || xxxxxxxx ||
 * School / Teacher Name || Montgomery/ Strueby ||
 * Grade Level || 4 ||
 * Content Area || ELA ||
 * Driving Question || How can we effectively resolve conlict and show loyalty to our friends? ||
 * Scenario Task || Create Comic Life Presentation that shows how to effectively resolve conflict ||
 * TYPE of Communication || Cause and Effect ||
 * MODE of Communication || Comic Life ||
 * Student Digital Product || [[file:Olivia.pdf]][[file:ella.pdf]] ||
 * Other Supporting Documents || [[file:Creating Graphic Novels.docx]] ||

Students will create their own town based on certain criteria to be placed in Fort Selkirk Canada (Yukon) and they will have to present their town to a board from a larger corporation with a mining interest as well as in interest in a second industry ||
 * Technology Support Person - Lisa Proctor**
 * Designing Student-Performance Tasks** **Template** **(Doc): [[file:Town Planner outline.doc]]**
 * Project Summary:**
 * Project Title || Town Planner ||
 * School / Teacher Name || John Lake/Angela Eruero ||
 * Grade Level || 4/5 ||
 * Content Area || Social/LA ||
 * Driving Question || What is needed to create a sustainable town within a northern Canadian community? ||
 * Scenario Task || Students were given a 500 population town in northern Yukon near Fort Selkirk and challenged to create a town plan that included mapping then present their decisions to the 'Fairenuff' corporation that consisted of teachers, parents and interested townspeople (peers) ||
 * TYPE of Communication || Persuasive ||
 * MODE of Communication || Modelling, commercial, powerpoint, WHATEVER they chose ||
 * Student Digital Product || commercial and powerpoint[[file:Dino Valley 2.pptx]] ||
 * Other Supporting Documents || there is a movie/commercial that is too large to place on here...