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BISD Summer Technology Camps 2013

BISD Summer Technology Camps 2013

  Find out more information about the BISD Summer Technology camps for 2013. All camps run from June 10-14, 2013 at Burleson High School. Each camp costs $80 and runs from 8:30am-12:00pm. Click the image above, or the link below for more information about our camps, camp registration, and our online payment link! Click Here to visit our camp website!

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Support Students in Pursuit of Technology Careers

Support Students in Pursuit of Technology Careers

High school seniors from across the country will have a chance to vie for scholarship money in the Investing in Our Future competition from eSchoolView. Awards will be given in two categories, Web Design and…

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Get Students Thinking Critically About National Issues

Get Students Thinking Critically About National Issues

C-SPAN’s StudentCam is an annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think seriously about issues that affect their communities and the nation. Students are asked to create a short(five- to…

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Take the Science Fair into Cyberspace

Take the Science Fair into Cyberspace

The US Army’s eCYBERMISSION is a free,web-based Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)competition in which students in grades 6–9 compete against other students in their grades for state, regional and national awards.Teams consisting of…

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Build Bridges of Mutual Understanding

Build Bridges of Mutual Understanding

The Kennedy–Lugar Youth Exchange and Study(YES) Abroad Program is offering scholarships to American high school students to spend the 2013–2014 academic year in countries that may include Bosnia & Herzegovina, Egypt(tentative), Ghana, India,…

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Rap up 2012

The Year in Rap: 2011 from Flocabulary on Vimeo. In partnership with Flocabulary,creators of the Weekin Rap and the Yearin Rap, TheNew York Times LearningNetwork is running acontest inviting students aged 13–25 to submit their own 2012 Yearin Rap lyrics. Students…

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See How Cells Function in Real Life

See How Cells Function in Real Life

Meta!Blast is a real-time 3-D action-adventure video game, aimed at high school and undergraduate student audiences. The game is meant to provide an entertaining, engaging experience while simultaneously educating players about cell…

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Foldit is an interactive computer game enabling students to contribute to important scientific research. In the Foldit game, players are presented with puzzles that start with a snaking arrangement of amino acids, identical to the…

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Trace Space Back To You

Trace Space Back To You

NASA @ Home and City is a virtual tour of NASA-related science that is everywhere we look. Students visiting NASA @ Home and City can rotate buildings and take a look inside to…

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Capture a Modern Moment of History

Capture a Modern Moment of History

The Historypin Android app reveals photos near your current location and allows you to view them layered over the modern scene in front of you. You can also explore collections of some…

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Turn a Book into a Digital Classroom

Turn a Book into a Digital Classroom

Subtext is a free iPad app that allows classroom groups to exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts. When you and your students annotate a book or a document in Subtext, notes are…

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Hit the “Target” Number

Hit the “Target” Number

5 Dice iPad app is a free math game that helps upper elementary and middle school students practice the order of operations. The game encourages students to use higher order thinking to solve the “target”…

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Trace the Origins of Aphorisms

Trace the Origins of Aphorisms

Aesop’s Fables—also called “the Aesopica”—are a collection of stories intended to teach moral lessons. The stories are credited to Aesop, a Greek slave and storyteller thought to have lived between 620…

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