Beyond Four Walls: Mrs. Smith's Tech Blog

Mrs. Swarm’s third grade class participated in a videoconference event on May 7th with the Hands On Museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan.   Students discussed the three states of matter, then combined ingredients to create two mystery “slime” substances.   They used four of their five senses to describe their slime to the activity leader at the [...]

Several classes recently participated in virtual author visits with their students.    The presenting authors were Eileen Spinelli, Jerry Spinelli, and Robin Moore and were done through PDE-sponsored webinars.   A webinar is simply a presentation or workshop delivered over the internet.    A laptop is connected to a projector and speakers so that the entire class can [...]