Technology

Buckingham Friends School has a state-of-the-art wireless laptop environment with all sixth, seventh, and eighth graders having a personal laptop computer. Upper school classrooms are equipped with “smart boards”.

Kindergarten

• Introduction and use of mouse, monitor and printer
• Kid Pix
• Reader Rabbit

Grade 1

• Reading games
• Math games

Grade 2

• Word Processing – small reports
• Safari, Internet Explorer – research projects
• Games that support curriculum
  • Math Maze
  • Bug Detective
  • Spy Fox

Grade 3

• Word Processing
• Hyperstudio
• Research skill – Time Almanac, Groller multi-media encyclopedia, Aerial Atlas of America, Macmillan Dictionary for Children
• Rosetta Stone – Foreign Language
• Microsoft Art Gallery
• Guiness Multimedia Disc of records
• The Rainforest
• The Animals: From Mindscapr
• The Way Things Word
• Kids Works Delux
• Space Adventure
• Geosafari
• Castle
• Redshift – Multimedia astronomy
• Redshift 2
• Encyclopedia of Nature
• Math Blaster
• History of the World
• Widget Workshop – Mad Scientist Laboratory
• Simtown

Grade 4

• Software for:
  • Thinking skills, problem solving
  • Instructional – science, language arts, social studies
  • Creativity

Grade 5

• Math related software: Computer Connection, The Factory, The Incredible Laboratory, Multiplication programs, Math Football Decimals, Fraction programs
• Social Studies related software: Oregon Trail, Heritage, Cross Country
• Language Arts related software: Word, Essential Punctuation, Essential Grammar
• Science related software: Voyage of the Mimi

Grade 6, 7 & 8

• All 6-8 graders use personal Apple PowerBook laptop computers in a state-of-the-art wireless school environment. Computers are carried to and used in all academic classes as an educational tool.
• Training in computer use: software, internet use, producing documents, presentations, audio / video programs