HCPS Middle School

Ms. Myers 6th grade Reading class worked collaboratively using the ActivStudio software to summarize and illustrate the journal, Trapped By the Ice, written by Michael McCurdy. Their small group projects where then collected to form a short story video about the real-life story if Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance.  Click on the links below to find out what happened to these brave men in 1914!

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Capzules.com allows for students to create interactive time lines.  Students can add dates, sound, pictures, and summaries describing the important events.  Here is a link to a time line created by a student in Ms. McInnis’ 7th grade Social Studies class.

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