Uses+for+Wikis

Wikis allow you to pull together and organize information and resources.
This wiki provides resources for a project which requires the kids to develop a character who leaves his or her homeland to move to the U.S. to create a new life: 5th Grade Immigration Studies

To help students locate books with information on their topics, the most appropriate library books were included on this wiki: 7th Ancient Rome Study (May update it this year to include a few good websites and media resources) This wiki lists web resources for kids needing biographical information and famous quotations: 7th Great Greek Thoughts Project

An American History teacher uses wikis to share project information: 8th Grade Native American Life Project 8th Grade Recent History Project

An 8th Grade Physical Science teacher uses this wiki to offer students help and resources for their science class: 8th Grade Physical Science Class

Here's a wiki for students who are independently reading challenging books and meeting once each week for discussion: 9th Grade Reading Guide This new wiki lists potential paper topics and will hopefully help us keep track of which topics are used from year-to-year: 9th Term Paper Topics

5th-9th NC Historical Essay Writing Contest 6th-9th Three Cups of Tea Summer Read 7th-9th Think Green Activity -- Great Pacific Garbage Patch Media Literacy Teach the Civil War with Technology
 * Wikis were used to coordinate multi-grade activities and teacher/parent workshops:**

**Professional Development**
This wiki includes resources and tutorials for RSS iMovie Discovery Streaming Google Docs Wikis VoiceThread Google Earth


 * Personal use:** Travel Plans