Upper School Students mentor Lower School Students
I wanted to share a few photos of our upper school students in action mentoring our lower school students as they use technology daily in our classrooms and research room. The research room is equipped with its own Mac Lab of 25 laptops and smartboard for instruction. We are extremely excited about the 1:1 laptop program in 7th and 9th grade next year; this will allow lower school to have one Mac Lab on our hallway that can be rolled into each room when needed as well as one in our new research area of the lower school building set to open this summer. Our dream is to have one Mac Lab per grade level then finally one per classroom! Our teachers collaborate via the internet with educators to find new ways to enhance our entire curriculum through the use of technology. We strive to provide our students K-12 with the best learning opportunities possible!
Authentic Learning Activities!
Research shows that students learn best through authentic learning activities---taking a topic and making the hands on learning as "real world experience" as possible! This is exactly what our third grade teachers have been proving true as their students completed a unit of study on Economics! After learning about producers, consumers, products, profit/loss and supply/demand the students got creative with things they could market and sell! This culminated in a Superstar Market Day! Products included paper airplanes, cookies, bracelets, paper football sets, and art! The students used "star bucks" (class made paper money!) to purchase the goods from each other as well as inviting other grade levels and staff members to shop! Our upper school Forensics class assisted the third graders as they produced an imovie commercial that can be viewed on Trinty's SchoolTube Channel. The students also produced paper ads and business cards using the Pages program on our Macbooks.
