PEPSICO K-12 Technology Mentor Program » Rogers-Herr Middle School

On a Quest to solve problems

Dottie Black — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:04:52 +0000

Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. It allows users to travel to virtual places to perform educational activities (known as Quests), talk with other users and mentors, and build virtual personae. Explore our site and learn more about this exciting project. To learn more about this program click here.

Hear Gavin (A Rogers-Herr Middle School Student) talk about his Quest Atlantis Missions:

Kelly Stevens’ GPS Treasure Hunt

Dottie Black — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:02:40 +0000

Movie about the Treasure Hunt (Quicktime File)

Ms. Stevens created a treasure hunt complete with a captured Pirate captain and some gold booty.

The students had to use GPS devices to find and solve the clues so they could rescue their captain and earn the reward.

See the first Pirate Movie (Quicktime File)

See the Second Pirate Movie (Quicktime File)

Download the clues to use in your classroom.

Kelly Stevens’ Blog Projects

Dottie Black — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:12:36 +0000

Seventh Grade social studies teacher Kelly Stevens is the Rogers-Herr Year-Round Middle School Technology Mentor. Kelly and her team have been incredibly prolific this year. Here are some of the projects they have done.

Blogging

Kelly introduced Blogging to her team and students last fall. The blogging tool they have been using was developed by David Warlick. You can create your own classroom blogs by going to classblogmeister.com

Homeless Bird Blog

The seventh graders read Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan. The teacher posed questions to the students to answer using the blog. Read some of the entries here.

Ms. Stevens encouraged her students to comment on other student’s blog entries about Homeless Bird. She called this assignment “Everyone’s a critic“.

Red Scarf Girl

The seventh graders also used a blog as part of a webquest called Red Scarf Girl. Read some of the entries here.

Utopia

Can Utopia really exist? This blog is part of Ms. Beth Spataro’s webquest.