Students with disabilities often require assistive technology devices to communicate their needs and wants, in addition to accessing various curriculum and lessons.
The 2017-18 school year at St. Nicholas School in Los Altos Hills began with a foundational change in administration - a newly appointed principal! We had been under the same leadership for 14 years and found ourselves in the midst of an immense organizational change.
This ETP is primarily focuses on the collaborative process of students learning information and teaching that information to their group (jigsaw) to establish background information for an experiment using the scientific method.
Students will learn how to research and identify reliable internet resources. To show their skills, the students will create a culminating project about a California region. They will collaborate in an assigned group to find information using focused questions.
My ETP is hands-on Science Unit (5 Lessons-All About Water ) that will help students develop a greater understanding, deeper knowledge and appreciation of water and its integral part of life on this planet.
Often in the science classroom, I have students create and give a presentation that highlights what they learned about a topic.
The goal of this ETP is to engage students in an engineering experience much like the engineers at Synopsys go through.
This ETP teaches you how to establish a student-run Tech Squad to address common technology-related issues across campus. Students will be trained in how to identify and fix low-level problems in a respectful, helpful way.
The goal of this ETP is to introduce and practice the engineering design process in a fun and high interest manner: by designing a balloon “rocket” that uses a straw and various types of string to travel a distance in the fastest possible time.