Use these examples of projects created by students and tweets from classroom teachers to inspire technology integration in your eighth-grade classroom.
Whether you have Chromebooks, iPads, PCs, or Macs in your classroom, you can use technology to engage and inspire your students in the curriculum.
These multimedia projects were created by students using Wixie.
To help students understanding information more deeply, ask them to create infographics to share knowledge and data about an issue or science topic.
Students create a portfolio for a significant person in history to showcase this person's contributions to the community and our life today.
To show what they know about a character in a novel they are reading, students create a digital scrapbook for this person.
Engage students in learning about different geometric transformations by having them use Wixie to create their own rotation and reflection tessellations.
To help students better understand the perspectives of those in different times and cultures, have them develop newsletters that recall and retell historic events.
Capitalize on your eighth-graders strong opinions by engaging them in an argument that will impact their life, such as the location of a class trip or an upcoming school event.
Retelling a story with different points of view helps students better comprehend an author's use of voice.
Students research a person from history, or a character in a book they are reading, and summarize their findings in the form of a trading card.