Mrs. Farque's first grade students are learning about shapes.  They're using a web app from the Math Learning Center to model objects in their environment and construct more complex shapes.  Students are using their knowledge of shapes to make their own creations like...

Fourth grade students are learning how to collect and analyze data using Google Forms and Google Sheets. Each student created a survey and posted a link to their survey in Google Classroom. The students responded to their classmates' surveys and then retrieved and...

DFT students and staff celebrated Digital Citizenship Week by dressing up according to daily themes, including how to stay safe online, stopping cyberbullying by being an "upstander" rather than a bystander, rights to creative work and giving credit, and finding...

Third grade students are participating in a videoconference to compare "monsters" they created from each others' class descriptions. Each group created a monster from construction paper. They measured the bodies, appendages and facial details and wrote descriptions of...

All grade levels at DFT participated in a STEAM challenge last week. Each group was asked to build the tallest tower possible using nothing but notched cardboard pieces -- no tape, no glue! The groups were given 1 minute to make a plan and 4 minutes to build. The...

Mrs. Wallace's first grade class is learning about programming with LightBot. Lightbot is a puzzle game based on coding; it secretly teaches you programming logic as you play! The iPad app uses educational gaming technology to guide students through the concepts of...