J. R. Briggs Elementary School

Technology Class

"We touch the lives of children"

All students will be coming home with a Computer Use Contract and Web Page Publishing Permission Form for parents to review and sign.
 

Grade 3

  Grade 3 Projects

• Self Portraits

• Me Poems

• MA Hall of Fame

• MA Road Trip

  Grade 3 Finished Early Choices

  Type to Learn

  Thinkin' Things

   My Pyramid  Blast Off

  Simple Machines

  Grade 4 Projects

• Grade 4 Census

• M&M Graphs

• Leaf Graphs

• Computer Basics

• Visit Washington DC

  Type to Learn

  Thinkin' Things

  Erosion

• Geography4Kids: Break It Down
• Soil Erosion Site
• Rocks for Kids: Erosion

  Rocks & Minerals

• Rock Hounds with Rocky
• Rock Hounds Kids Gallery of Minerals
• The Rock Cycle
• Enchanted Learning Rock & Mineral Dictionary

  Buds, Leaves & Global Warming

• Harvard Forest: Buds, Leaves and Global Warming Study
• Harvard Forest: Autumn Foliage Color
• EPA Climate Change Kids Site
• CBBC Guide to Global Warming
• Understanding Global Warming

  Graphing & Coordinates

• Billy Bug
• Data Picking
• Bugs in the System
• Understanding Graphs

  Grade 5 Projects

• The Woolly Adelgid Project

• I Search Project

  Type to Learn

  Thinkin' Things

  Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

• Walk in the Forest
• Harvard Forest: Hemlock Trees & the Pesky Pest
• Briggs Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Study: 2006, 2007

  Web Searching

• Worlds of Web Searching
• Get Your Web License

  Fractions Practice

• Find Grampy
• Tony's Fraction Pizza Shop
• Flowering Fractions

Fun for all ages ... only with the OK from Mrs. Davis!

• Line Rider
• JunkBot

Briggs Home Page

Contact Us

Briggs At Large

Teacher Resources

Student Resources

Technology Class

Web Quests

Nature Trail

District Home Page

• John R. Briggs Library Catalog: the Briggs library catalog can now be searched online. You will have to go to school to check out whatever items you find.

• Kids Click: includes thousands of sites that have been selected, annotated and categorized by librarians; annotation includes reading level of site; geared to students grades K-7.

• Yahooligans: designed for 8 to 14 year olds. Offers great breadth.

• Internet Public Library, Youth Division: designed for children ages 4-11; sites screened for quality of information as well as appropriateness.

• Grolier's Online: allows you to search several online encyclopedias WHEN YOU ARE IN SCHOOL (this link will not work from home).

• American Heritage Dictionary & Thesaurus: search the dictionary, browse through the dictionary index, listen to the pronunciation of words, look for synonyms in the thesaurus, and more!

Click here to see the John R. Briggs Elementary School Technology Curriculum (must have Microsoft Word).