Each 8th grade student completes an independent project on a scientific topic. Many do PowerPoint, Movies plus a posterboard. Here are two students who took a different route because the tools were available. Here are the links to the web sites that two of our science students built for their Independent Projects and one students movie on smoking.
Franci http://franciorama11.googlepages.com/home
Carl http://tripleboot.googlepages.com/home
Derek http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=05C4AC47E605AB50