In conjunction with their English classes, the 6th graders just finished a video project. With Mrs. Bartlett’s group, the students used their persuasive writing pieces to create a short advertisement to persuade their viewers. In Mrs. Holden’s class, the students took either their “Where I’m From” poems or a vignette as the subject for their short videos.

All images and media are Creative Commons Licensed and credited at the close of the video.

6B Persuasive Videos

6H Poems & Stories

This video was created by 5th grader, Lydia, as an extra credit assignment for science class.

Music Credit: Coastin’ by Zion I

The 6th grade recently completed a science/technology project involving Global Warming. Each group chose a media outlet (magazine, newspaper, or television) from which to tell the story of their assigned topic. You can click on the thumbnails below to read the full articles on Yudu.

This fall, in their English and technology classes, the 8th graders created book trailers (much like movie previews) for their summer reading books. In groups, they organized their ideas, found their media resources, and produced their trailers using iMovie. Take a look and see what you may want to read soon.

Ever want to go to South America? Wondering what country to visit? These tourism videos for Spanish speaking countries in South America may help you make up your mind.

Students created comics to represent the different states of matter as part of a Physics lab. Each comic had to show the three states: solid, liquid, and gas.

Click here to view the comics.

David’s essay, Hundred Dollar Oil topped 124 submissions from students throughout Rhode Island in this statewide version of the InvestWrite national essay competition. The contest is part of the NYSE-sanctioned Stock Market Game that students competed in last winter. The topic put to the students was how world events can impact stock prices. For this essay, David was honored at the Rhode Island Stock Market Game Awards Ceremony at Marble House on May 28th. 

Click here to read Hundred Dollar Oil.

This year, the students created a slideshow of their originals to go with their fakes.

5th Grade Fakes & Forgeries – the originals from SMCDS on Vimeo.

5th Grade Fakes & Forgeries Show

Click here to see a slideshow of the 2007 Fakes & Forgeries art show.

The 3rd graders from Mrs. Bradshaw’s and Mrs. Martin’s classes created digital notebooks to feature the states that the studied. By clicking on the Play button in the window below, you can see each student’s project. They are organized by state, in Alphabetical order. To look at each page in more detail, simply click on the Pause button.

3rd Grade State Projects on Vimeo

The students from Mrs. Stieff and Mrs. Hemeon’s classes have created two websites to go with their study of Egypt.

Click here to see the Ancient Egyptian Funerals site.

Click here to see the King Tut site.

Using Google Sketchup, the 7th grade students created virtual, 3D, dioramas. First, they researched original photos from the Civil War, then they created their own scenes.

Click here to view a slideshow of their work.

The third grade wrote Aborigines creation myths about various creatures that live on the Great Barrier Reef. They began the project by studying their creatures and asking questions to Tricia – a SCUBA instructor and marine biologist. They then used the CAST BookBuilder to write their stories. Read The Full Story…

The 7th grade has just completed comic strips to illustrate the difference between a noun and a pronoun. As a final product, we will be producing these comic books from a print-on-demand shop called Lulu. Each student will receive a copy. Please contact Mrs. H at bholland@smcds.org if you would like an additional copy.

You can also click here to view a PDF of this project.

For the past several weeks, the 6th graders have been circumnavigating the globe. Each student covered a leg of the journey, and maintained a log book of their adventure. You can view some of these projects by opening the Vimeo albums below. Just click on the pictures to set sail. Read The Full Story…