Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Spanish 1: Gustar
Students showed their understanding of the verb "gustar" and other verbs like it using complete sentences and singular or plural nouns. Some students provided additional examples of compound sentences and comparisons.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
The Student Show 2012!
Ejoy our first show of the year, with stories from iReporters, Writers for Hixson, and GenYES
Thursday, May 24, 2012
8th Gade Social Studies Web Quest
Our social studies teacher, Ms. Evans, had her students compelte a webquest.
Below are the tasks required of the project:
Task: You and two other group members will research the underground railroad by examining primary source documents and various web pages to understand the hardships and steps involved on the journey to freedom.
-You must choose a specific role to guide you on your research path.
-Each group member individually will tell a part of the story of a slave wishing to escape, their journey to freedom and their life after escape.
-You must agree on the general information of your slave (like age, name, plantation location).
The life of the slave, the "railroad journey" and the life after escape should all be based on historical facts.
-You must have a final collaborative product that reflects the three parts of the research (life as a slave, railroad journey, and life after escape).
Here are two examples of the compelted projects
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
FACS: World Foods Project
INTRODUCTION: You are a travel agent. A client wants to take a trip to another country, but doesn’t know where to go, what type of foods to expect, or proper etiquette. You have been asked to research an assigned country and make a presentation to the client.
AND AFTER THE INFORMATION IS GATHERED:
· prepare one of the End Products
· present what you have learned to the class
· prepare a recipe from another country
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Spring Orchestra Concert presents: The Classics
If you missed the opportunity to take in the sights and sounds of our 7th and 8th grade Orchestra performance you can enjoy the recordings here.
From our 7th grade student orchestra:
Habanera (from Caremen suite #2)
Allegretto (from Symphony No. 7)
Beethoven, Inc.
From our 8th grade Orchestra:
Serenade No. 9 "Posthorn"
Themes from The Moldan
Pirates of the Caribbean
And the grand finale from our 6th, 7th, and 8th grade orchestras:
Dance of the Harlequins
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Art studio video gallery walk
A tour of the Art studio set up for or Festival of Fine Arts. Enjoy the student creations of our Middle school students displayed for one day only. In order to share the experience we created this video gallery walk to share the art with those who did not get the opportunity to see it in person. This video walk is also a wonderful opportunity to extend the length of enjoyment we get from our student art work.
Friday, April 27, 2012
HixsonTube
Have you seen our YouTube channel: HixsonTube
We've set it up and upoad all our video content there, it feeds in on our main webpage as well.
Recently our GEMS students researched and filmmed information about the countries they represented during Model UN and our GenYES students performed a little movie magic on them. Check them out today!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
The Hixson Student Show: Spring Break!
Our spring break is starting and so our students have put together a show perfect for break.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Student Digital Learning Evidence
The learning goal was: Student will be able to explain how energy can be conserved, transferred, or transformed within a circuit. Students could choose the type of tool, to work solo or with a group, and the method to show evidence of learning. Out of 1 class period of tool play, and 2 class periods for student creation, came some fantastic evidence of learning. Here are some of the digital displays of learning that students have shared with their classmates.
Animoto- With limited characters students had to comunicate understanding through images and video.
Glogster- Click in the upper right corner of the glog to see it full size.
http://edu.glogster.com/glog.php?glog_id=26013503&scale=25
http://edu.glogster.com/glog.php?glog_id=27316313&scale=25
Tagxedo- Students had to explain why they chose their image and why they chose their words.
Friday, February 24, 2012
The Hixson Student Show presents: The Hixson Academy Awards
Film Club, Creative Writing, and GenYes teamed up to produce, our first ever middle school academy awards show. The footage, the scripts, the selections, all done by our students. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9xfbeVa3i8]
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Hands On Music Song Writing: Final Project
Final Project (Rotation 2)
Steps: Come up with a chord progression; add a rhythm or break the chords for the accompaniement; Create a melody that complements the chord structure. Create a B section (alternate melody/chords); Choose to repeat one of those sections (like ABA or ABAA). Students were to create a total of 12 measures. Your message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Speed Drawing
From pencil to sharing, one of our GenYes students produced this speed drawing, footage, and final product. The same student produced the opening to the Hixson Show, and is one of our chief editors of the show.
Monday, February 6, 2012
The Hixson Student Show
GenYES has doen it again, with help from our Film club, creative writing club and GEMS classes. This show our focus is on entertainment in all forms. We've added some new cast members, new news segments, and have had several new students join GenYES to help us put the show together.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Hixson Student Super Bowl
Our Hixson Creative Writing club put together a segment about the super bowl and filmed it. GenYes took the raw footage and together we have our Hixson Middle School Super Bowl 2012 news story.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Hixson Show
GenYes has produced their 4th show with footage from our GEMS program as well as our FIlm Club.
We take a look back at 2011 globally and locally. We also learned and used a new software for assembling the show.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Artwork
Second semester 8th grade art students worked on a giant group grid project to honor the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Each student took small parts of a larger picture to draw with charcoal. When all the parts were put back together, it formed this dynamic image.
Frank Stella Wall Sculpture
First semester 8th grade art students finished the class by constructing this group project out of cardboard. They used 2D design to form a 3D sculpture.
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