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N OR TH HI L L S SC HOOL DI STRI C T N E WS
• Practice skills taught in math class by completing math
problems and showing their work on iPads instead of white,
dry-erase boards.
• Access online web portals for Think Through Math and Study
Island, online tools that support North Hills’ English language
arts and math curricula.
• Research music and songs suited to their individual abilities in
middle school band courses, and record themselves playing
instrumental scales and music using GarageBand to submit to
their conductor.
• Celebrate Constitution Day with a novel BreakoutEDU activity
that combined popular escape rooms, iPads, American
presidents and primary source historical documents. Students
worked together with a time limit to decipher clues from
various primary source documents. Once they worked out
solutions and unlocked each of the five locks on a locked box,
the students found the answer they needed to save the nation
from ruin – The Constitution.
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• Distribute all content in Grade 8 English classrooms in line
with the StudySync curriculum. The curriculum incorporates
videos, peer reviews of work and blasts, which allow student to
converse about a topic in a safe environment, ask questions or
answer quick queries to determine comprehension of subject
matter.
• Capture photos of sheet music for band practices allowing each
student to always have their music with them. They also can
take personalized notes and write on their digital sheet music.
• Create digital posters about the Bill of Rights explaining what
the Bill of Rights means in simplified, relatable language.
• Design presentations using the Project and Creative apps and
make Prezi slideshows after completing research on famous
immigrant inventors in social studies.
• Keep track of important vocabulary taught in each subject
and review vocabulary for tests and assignments using the
Flashcard app.