Technology

During their unit on the science Space Module, Mrs. Plotner’s third grade class at East Petersburg Elementary  compared the sizes of the planets and their distance from the sun.  The children made a paper model of a planet representing its relative size to the other planets and researched the planet.  Fact sheets were completed by [...]

Second graders at Rohrerstown and East Petersburg Elementary Schools learned about photography this past month in the Special Interest program. The students developed a theme for their digital storybook then set out to take their own pictures. The students worked very hard on their photography books using creativity and going step by step through the [...]

As an extension of the textbook reading “The Next Great Dying” by Karin Vergoth & Christopher Lampton, students watched “The Vanishing Frog” with host Jeff Corwin (originally produced for Animal Planet and accessed through Discovery Education Streaming).  Students then selected and researched an endangered amphibian.
The goal of the project was to create a public service [...]