GenYES Sample Projects
What's a PORT?
Some of these projects are linked to the actual project (if available). If not, the PORT is shown. The PORT (Project Organizing and Reporting Tool) is an online project management site where the GenYES student and their partner-teacher create a lesson plan for their project, create learning objectives for the partner-teacher and the students in their classes, and align the project to classroom content standards. GenYES consultants provide feedback and evaluation of the project during its construction. In this way, the results of the GenYES program are collected and can be used as evidence of partner-teacher's increased use of technology to teach their classes.
These projects represent the thousands of projects archived in the GenYES database used by our member schools. Every year, we add more examples of quality technology integration projects for our students to explore and share with the partner-teachers they are helping. These projects range from pre-K to 12th grade, and cover all subject areas from art and music to science and math.
Elementary
Weather Jeopardy Review-Desert Trails Elementary (Phoenix, AZ)
A Power Point presentation by Dani D. that teaches and quizzes second grade students about different types of weather, clouds, air, and storms in a fun, kid friendly way using the popular game show Jeopardy. The project is and interactive Power Point presentation so students will have to participate by selecting categories and then giving the answer in the form of a question. The partner teacher had to show Dani that she learned how to navigate through the Power Point and set up the projector before she was able to apply this review with the class. The Power Point Jeopardy review is a template so the partner-teacher could also use this for other topic reviews as well. The students did well on the unit test due to participating in the jeopardy review, and had a fun learning experience.
Download the PowerPoint Presentation - View the PORTSculpture - Jacobsville Elementary (Pasadena, MD)
A Power Point presentation by Carly B. that teaches students about three different types of media used to make sculptures. The presentation includes photographs of these different sculptures and information about the sculptors who created them. It also includes a step-by-step video to help students create sculptures of their own. Carly researched on the Internet and at the National Gallery of Art. This project will help students develop and apply criteria to evaluate personally created artworks and the artworks of others.
Download the PowerPoint Presentation - View the PORT
Middle School
Cook Book - Rose Hill Junior High School (Redmond, WA)
A Powerpoint presentation centered around a cook book project.
Download the PowerpointTalented Tenth - Drew-Freeman Middle School (Suitland, MD)
A documentary created to educate Drew Freeman students about the call for a second civil rights movement by the Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
View the PORTExponents - William Moreno Middle School (Calexico, CA)
This Power Point presentation shows students how to work with exponents. Students will then demonstrate their new skills by completing Cornell Notes, solving exponent exercises, and completing assigned handouts. Taheri used a computer, LCD projector, Microsoft Power Point and a program called Digital Math.
View the PORTMuseum of Tolerance - Holmes Middle School (Davis, CA)
Cheng X., Eli S., and Kevin H. collaborated with three teachers and over 20 students to create a documentary about tolerance and the history of racism. Cheng, Eli, and Kevin used Audacity, Photo to Movie, Movie Maker Studio 7, and the Internet to research and compile this video project.
Download the QuickTime MovieEnglish Class - Centerpoint Middle School (Centerpoint, TX)
Ana A. and her partner-teacher collaborated to create an English class web page. The web page is designed to fit her English 1 and English 2 classes. The web page contains proper ways to write a paper and shows examples of how a paper should be written.
View the website - View the PORT
Personification Poem - Elkton Middle School (Elkton, MD)
Jenna M. and her partner-teacher decided to implement technology into her teacher's poetry unit. Jenna had the students work with layers and PhotoShop elements to complete this project. This project will help students compose text using pre-writing and drafting strategies and compose oral, written and visual presentations that express personal ideas among many other Maryland state standards.
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Daily Oral Language - Rose Hill Middle School (Redmond, WA)
Colton M. developed a project that allows teachers to display the daily oral exercises using an interactive Flash program projected on a screen as a means to replace aging overhead projectors. Colton used Flash MX, Flash Player, and an LCD monitor to compile this project.
Download the Flash Presentation - View the PORT
High School
Transformations - Gompers High School (Bronx, NY)
The math project Power Point, "Transformations" by Alejandro P. helps students learn about the part of geometry called transformations. Using slides with equations and information Alejandro helps students understand the concept of transformations and how to effectively translate points and objects in a coordinate plane. He used Mind Manager X5, Power Point, and the Internet to compile this project.
Download the Power Point Presentation
Reading Encouragement - Benton High School (Benton, IL)
A web page project by Jonathan M. and Danielle M. created to interest their high school peers to get involved with reading. Their plan was to educate students about the books with funny and informative reviews with popular well-rounded faculty and students. "I didn't know that students could put together a video project that looks as professional as this - it's an amazing project," says Jonathan and Danielle's partner teacher.
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