Cottage Lane Web Portal

The Cottage Lane Web Portal is the page that the students see when they open the internet in the lab and in the school. It contains many of the links to materials which we use in school. Check it out. Click on the Cottage Lane Web Portal in the menu above.

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We are using Scratch

Scratch from MIT is an excellent programming environment for young people.  Our fourth graders are learning some of the basics.  The program is fee and can be downloaded to your home computer.  Click here for more information and the download.

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Cool Resource on Warming Temperatures

This student-friendly climate model is just amazing.  Check it out:  http://spark.ucar.edu/longcontent/simple-climate-model

 

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West Point Bridge Design Contest

The West Bridge Contest has begun in Cottage Lane!  Students in Technology Class will be designing bridges using the West Point Bridge Design Program.  Each team must design a bridge that

The Tappan Zee Bridge

 crosses a river and can hold the weight of one truck.  The lowest bidders in each grade in our contest will get a pizza lunch. This software is free an safe to download.  Just click here for more information.  The next time our community needs to design a new bridge, our students will be ready to meet the challenge!

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The Piermont Marsh Project

The Piermont Marsh Project is underway.  Mrs. Heilbronn and Mrs. Lane’s classes mounted a picture post in Tallman Mountain Park and are loading photos taken there on the weekends to a Citizen’s Science project at the University Of New Hampshire.  Click here to learn more about this wonderful project.

http://marsh.jacobtanenbaum.com

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Climate Stewards

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is once again offering training and certification as a Climate Educator.  For more information and an application to the program Please email me.  Come and join us.  Get training on cutting edge science directly from the scientists doing the work, and learn to access and interpret the raw data with your students. All grade levels are welcome.  If you are interested in the program, please contact me.  I am the program’s Regional Coordinator for this area and can provide you with lots more information.  Please also feel free to forward this and my email on to other educators.

jtanenbaum@socsd.org

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Chess and Robotics

Looking for information on the Chess and Robotics clubs?  Want to sign up?  Just click Chess and Robotics Clubs in the menu at the top of the screen or click here to go to our information and signup pages.

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The Weather from Cottage Lane

Did you know Cottage Lane has a weather station?  We post the weather to the internet every 15 minutes and you can access our data from anywhere in the world.  We use our station to broadcast a weather forecast on the announcements every morning.  Click here to see the weather from the roof of Cottage Lane.  If you have an Android phone, you can download our own Cottage Lane Weather App specially designed for us.

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Welcome

Welcome to Mr. Tanenbaum’s Technology Blog. From time to time, I will be posting resources here for students teachers and families to enjoy. Check back frequently!

Regards,

Mr. Tanenbaum

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