After learning about Internet safety and Password protection during the first week of September, all fourth and fifth grade classes began working on projects that would involve computers.
Over the next 6 weeks, the fourth grade classes will be learning different presentation methods to allow them to share their knowledge in literacy class as well as science and social studies throughout the year. Animoto will be the first one taught, so the students can share what they have learned about different style houses based on the 2015 Bluestem nominee If You Lived Here: Houses of the World by Giles Laroche. This book is one of the library's ebooks, so the students were able to view it on the Promethean Board as a class and then worked with partners to research the different style houses. Each partner will then create an Animoto presentation to share with the class teaching them about where the house is located, what materials it is made out of and why that house works well for the people in that area.
The fifth grade students have been learning about cells in science class, so in conjunction with our exposure to the graphic novel genre in library, pairs of students are creating a Comic Life graphic about an assigned cell part. Each pair must tell where the part, or organelle, is located in the cell, what its job is and then create an analogy relating the cell part to a career or object in the outside world. The students will then put all of the Comic Life pieces together to create a class graphic novel about the cell.
Over the next 6 weeks, the fourth grade classes will be learning different presentation methods to allow them to share their knowledge in literacy class as well as science and social studies throughout the year. Animoto will be the first one taught, so the students can share what they have learned about different style houses based on the 2015 Bluestem nominee If You Lived Here: Houses of the World by Giles Laroche. This book is one of the library's ebooks, so the students were able to view it on the Promethean Board as a class and then worked with partners to research the different style houses. Each partner will then create an Animoto presentation to share with the class teaching them about where the house is located, what materials it is made out of and why that house works well for the people in that area.
The fifth grade students have been learning about cells in science class, so in conjunction with our exposure to the graphic novel genre in library, pairs of students are creating a Comic Life graphic about an assigned cell part. Each pair must tell where the part, or organelle, is located in the cell, what its job is and then create an analogy relating the cell part to a career or object in the outside world. The students will then put all of the Comic Life pieces together to create a class graphic novel about the cell.