PPS Instructional Technology

LED Name Tags are a fun project to do with your students when you are learning about circuits.  Students use watch cell batteries, and small LED diodes to make their name tags shine! Materials Needed   ● 3 x 5 index cards  ● Hole punch  ● Marker(s)  ● String or Ribbon  ● LED Diode  ● Watch Cell Battery  ● Copper Tape  ● Duct Tape Directions Step 1 : Write your name on your 3 x 5 index card.  Decorate as desired. Step 2 : Use a hole punch to punch a hole where you want your LED light to poke through. Step 3 : Flip card over Step 4 : Gently bend apart the “legs” of the LED diode so that it looks like it is “doing the splits.” Step 5 : Cut 2 strips of copper tape, approximately 2-3 inches in length Step 6 : Carefully remove the paper backing on one of the strips of copper tape.  Adhere the tape to the card so that the copper side is up.  One side of the tape should ...

Google Slides is an amazing tool.  You can make the usual presentation, but you can also do so much more!   Newsletters , posters, class newspapers, and computer-based manipulative activities are all great ways to use Google Slides in the classroom.  As our elementary teachers use their Chromebooks more and more in their classrooms, they have been looking for ways to create quick formative assessments and activities that they can assign in Google Classroom for their students to complete in order to practice skills they are learning in math, ELA, science, and social studies.  One way they are accomplishing this goal is by creating Google Slides manipulatives that they can assign to their students in Google Classroom. Here are some examples: Spelling Practice Spelling Practice Graphic Organizers Graphic Organizers Telling Time (Hour and Half Hour) Food Chain Place Value Number Charts Shapes Google Slides manipulatives are...

Chromebooks are amazing devices.  They are lightweight, easy to use, make accessing all our Google Applications simple, and keep their charge all day.  However, in order to get that all day charge, you need to make sure your Chromebook is charged fully and regularly.  When charging make sure the charger is inserted completely in the Chromebook. We recommend that each home have a "charging area" for devices that is outside the bedroom.  There have been many studies that show when people keep devices in their bedrooms, it has a negative impact on their sleep.