Using Senteo Response to

Introduce Multiple choice test questions

First Grade teacher Courtney Sears needed to prepare student to fill out multiple choice test bubble sheets.  She decided to introduce the concept of multiple choice question using the Smart Senteo Response system.  Students were able to use the senteo "clickers" to enter their respective answers to a question displayed on the Smart Board.  The Senteo system also allowed the students to the see results within seconds after they finished answering the question.

Students loved using the clickers and mastered the concept of multiple choice -- there were only two wrong answers out 85 responses.

Ms. Sears  explaining one of  the multiple choice questions
Students using the Senteo "Clickers"
Ms Sears using a bar graph to  show students the results of their answers.  The green bar was the correct answer

Students use Web 2.0 technology to reinforce math skills

Students used cameras to documented shapes found around the FPG campus (trash cans were the most popular; go figure).  They then placed the pictures on the Voicethread web site and created multimedia presentations containing video, audio and digital photographs. Below is a link to the presentations

  Shapes around FPG

SCOS  1st Grade

Math

3.01   Identify, build, draw and name parallelograms, squares, trapezoids, and hexagons.

3.03   Compare and contrast geometric figures.

5.01   Sort and classify objects by two attributes.

COMPUTER/TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

1.08 Recognize the characteristics of multimedia (e.g., text, audio, images, video)

1.09 Identify and discuss multimedia terms/concepts ( e.g., slide/card, link/button, text box, navigate, transition) as a class/group activity 

2.01 Use common computing devices and resources in class activities

2.02 Observe, discuss, and use software to enter, calculate, display data, and interpret results as a class/group 

2.07 Use multimedia software to illustrate words/phrases/concepts.

Rocks in our Environment  

Mrs. Sears Class used a voiced recorder and camera to document how rocks are used in the enfironment around FPG.

To see the presentation click on:

Standard Course of Study

 Science

• 2.01 Describe and sort a variety of earth materials based on their
  properties:
  •  Color.
  • Hardness.
  • Shape
  • Size.

• 2.02 Describe rocks and other earth materials in more than one way,using student-made rules.
• 2.05 Explore where useful earth materials are found and how they are
  used.

Computers

• 1.01 Identify, discuss, and represent visually uses of technology (e.g., computers, cell phones, digital cameras) at school and home.

• 1.02 Identify and discuss physical components of a computing device (e.g., CPU, monitor, keyboard, disk drive, printer, mouse).

• 1.03 Recognize and discuss safe and responsible use and care of technology resources ((AUP/IUP).

• 1.08 Recognize the characteristics of multimedia (e.g., text, audio, images, video).
• 1.09 Identify and discuss multimedia terms/concepts ( e.g., slide/card, link/button, text box, navigate, transition) as a class/group activity.
• 2.03 Identify, discuss, and use word processing as a tool to enter numbers, words, and phrases.

• 2.04 Identify and use basic word processing terms (e.g., file, open, close, menu bar, save, print).

• 2.07 Use multimedia software to illustrate words/phrases/concepts.