Scarsdale Public Schools

• Examine the ways in which word processing can support the writing process
• Use presentation software, like Microsoft PowerPoint, to enhance public speaking presentations
• Use technology for research.
• Create multimedia projects, including iPhoto book, poetry Web pages, and presentations

• Analyze data through computer graphing programs
• Continue development of spreadsheet-based problem-solving unit (seventh grade)
• Complete a computer graphing and spreadsheet unit involving the Stock Market (eighth grade)

• Use Excel spreadsheets, charting software and financial investment simulations

Art

• Use Internet art sites, virtual museums and podcasts for research
• Use presentation software such as Keynote and PowerPoint to create an art history project (sixth and eighth grades)
• Use digital image editing software such as Adobe Photoshop to design and transform images (seventh grade) culminating with a final project (eighth grade)
• Use word processing for research and for writing a reflection paper

Family and Consumer Science 

• Use the Career Cruising online program to complete a personal inventory
• Use a word processing program to write business letters and resumes.

Industrial Technology  

•  Use CAD software to design speaker circuits (sixth grade)
•  Use design software to create images for stationery (sixth grade)
•  Complete a unit of study on basic computer operations and terminology, including digital media (sixth grade)
•  Use CAD software to design objects which are constructed in Technology classes (seventh grade)
• Use Adobe Illustrator to control an engraving machine (eighth grade)
• Use Adobe Photoshop, scanning utilities, and iMovie video editing software to create the Middle School Video Yearbook (eighth grade)
• Use digital camcorders and iMovie video editing software to create short news programs (eighth grade)
• Use Adobe Illustrator in conjunction with CAD software to design a keychain (seventh grade)

• Use Excel spreadsheets for the bridge modeling project in eighth grade, and to caclulate timelines and distances

• Use probes to measure and graph data (seventh and eighth grades)
• Use technology to create presentations, complete with data charts, for units of study.
• Create presentations using Keynote and PowerPoint
• Access science information through a variety of Web technologies and search engines, videoconferencing, podcasting, and simulations

• Use Internet resources to support the curriculum
• Create and use a database to organize research, support collaboration, publish information, as well as to analyze data
• Use presentation software such as Keynote or PowerPoint to accompany an oral report
• Access information through a variety of Web technologies and search engines, videoconferencing, podcasting, iMovies,and software such as ComicLife

• Engage in guided Internet research of French and Spanish-speaking cities and countries
• Create presentations using a variety of software programs
• Use word processing for reports, including foreign language symbols
• Connect to peers in other countries using the Internet.
• Use podcasts to support vocabulary development and other language skills

• Use appropriate software for uploading and downloading photos, text, audio and video
• Use digital resources to create projects and to design study materials

• Use video iPods for listening to podcasts and audio books and for viewing videos

• Create enhanced podcasts for units of study

• Utilize Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and Wikis
• Create a digital portfolio highlighting accomplishments during the term 

• Review iPod student concert recordings and compositions from Exploring Music classes
• Use auditorium lighting board to control cues for musical productions, the Talent Show, and evening concerts 
• Use music software programs Music Ace (sixth grade/Exploring Music) and Essentials of Music Theory (sixth and seventh grade/Chorus) to enable students to learn music theory at their own pace
• Use Sibelius notation software to transfer compositions from a rough draft to a professional-looking music score (Exploring Music)
• Create music arrangements and compositions using GarageBand (Exploring Music)
• Use audio editing in GarageBand such as ducking, transposition, and cutting and pasting features
• Create podcasts of student research projects about orchestral instruments, folk instruments and world instruments,using GarageBand (sixth grade/Exploring Music) 
• Use the Web for interactive experiences such as Webquests, Blues Road Trip, and to research a famous music institution in preparation for a field trip (eighth grade/Exploring Music)
• Use iPods as an instructional tool in learning guitar (eighth grade/Exploring Music), and to reinforce learning a melody (Chorus)
• Use M-Audio keyboards as a controller to learn basic piano keyboard skills, and to compose blues arrangements (Exploring Music)
• Use PowerPoint /Keynote presentation software for a research project

• Use electric guitars as well as acoustic guitars for advanced guitar skills in eighth grade, for students who can work independently at their own proficiency levels

• Use BLUE Snowball microphones and advanced GarageBand editing techniques for an acoustic guitar composing and arranging recording  project

• Use the Internet for music research projects, guided by the librarians

• Use digital heart rate monitors while working out on the exercise equipment.
• Use a Microsoft Excel template to chart heart rate and print a graph.
• Use pre-selected Web sites to research information on bullying, to be used in writing and publishing a bullying awareness flyer
• Use an online database to input information into a food diary, and analyze the results
• Learn how to evaluate Web sites for reliability and pertinence of information
• Create a public service advertisement using podcasting, digital movies and desktop publishing programs
• Participate in videoconferences
• Conduct research using subscription health and wellness online databases, enter information in their own databases using Filemaker Pro, and apply their research to create a health brochure, using word processing