Students in Mrs. Kelley’s Kindergarten class brought Abraham Lincoln and George Washington to life using an iPad app. You can see their adorable videos below:
Archives: 21st Century Learning
Bringing Famous Virginians and Documents to Life
Mrs. Mulvaney’s VA Studies class created virtual reality posters to convey key information about Famous Virgnians and Famous Documents. They used a lot of technology to create these posters. They used Pic Collage on the iPads to create the actual poster and green screen technology to place themselves in a historical setting. The entire project is pulled together using an app called Aurasma. If you download the app, follow the Oak Grove Channel, and scan the posters, they will come to life with the students’ videos. Here are directions on how to load the app.
Aurasma Directions for Oak Grove
And just in case you can’t make it to Oak Grove to scan the posters in person, here are their videos below:
Cross posted on the Oak Grove Digital Archive.
Pic Collage and Videos with Famous American Speeches
Students in Ms. Barger’s fourth grade class just finished a huge unit on Famous Americans. As part of a STEM activity, students were responsible for writing a speech about a Famous American. They also had to create a poster to use in their speech with a pop-up and movable part.
As students were given speeches, I filmed them (on their assigned iPad). Students took notes when other students gave speeches. Then students watched their own speech and used a self-evaluation sheet to foster self-reflection. They used their notes and each other’s posters to create a Pic Collage containing three facts they learned from listening to other classmates’ speeches.
Students enjoyed the project, and it really gave ownership to giving speeches and listening to others. Both these skills are important Fourth Grade English SOLs.
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- Watching their own speech
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- Watching their own speech
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- Watching their own speech
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- Creating a Pic Collage
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- Creating a Pic Collage
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- Creating a Pic Collage
Kicking Machines with Augmented Reality
As students in Mrs. Grave’s Science class studied force and motion, they created Kicking Machines to move a ping pong ball into a cup 12 inches away. They started with the idea from the Design Squad but added a technology twist. Once students created their machines, they used an app called VideoPix to film their Kicking Machine in action. This app allowed students to slow down their videos. Then, they were able to capture images from the video showing the machine and ball in action. Using these pictures, they created a Pic Collage showing potential and kinetic energy.
Finally, using an Aurasma app, the slow motion videos were imposed on the Pic Collage. Now, when someone scans the Pic Collage with the Aurasma app, a video will pop up and play. It’s hard to explain without seeing the posters in action, but here are a few examples. If you follow the Clearbrook channel on the Aurasma app, you can scan and see their videos.
They students absolutely loved this project and were amazed at the final product. And by the time the project concluded, students were very clear on Potential and Kinetic energy. If you’d like to try to scan the posters and see the videos, the directions are below:
ABC Digital Books
Students in Mrs. Clapper’s class used the Pic Collage app on the iPads to create an ABC book. They were each assigned a letter (a few did two), and then they took pictures of things in the classroom that started with that letter. They were so cute! Here’s a few examples.
I can’t post them all because most had students names and pictures on them. If you want to see all the letters, though, check with Mrs. Clapper or I. We’d love to show you!
Coin Creations
Students in Mrs. Moretz’ class made coin creations to practice counting money in a very creative way. Their task was to create a picture using three of each type of coin (penny, nickel, dime, quarter). The total of the coins in their picture had to be more than $1.99 and less than $4.99. Here are some examples:
We gave the students an Inspiration file with the coins they needed to help make the process go faster. It could also be down with a Word Template.
The Big Bad Wolf
Mrs. Downey’s and Mrs. Corbett’s class completed a S.T.E.A.M project centered on a beloved children’s story, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Mrs. Coffey and Mrs. Pettipiece helped too!
Video Trailer (Just a Tease)!
Longer video
After discussing and analyzing the story, and comparing and contrasting it to the real Three Little Pigs story, students spent the next week delving into the world of engineers, architects, construction workers, realtors, consumers, and presenters. Each group of students planned, drew blueprint, tested and revised a house for the Fourth Little Pig. Each house was created to withstand gusts of wind from The Big Bad Wolf. They even completed a purchase order and shopped on a budget for the materials to use to construct their house. They also used the app Pic Collage to create a real estate listing to market their house to potential pig buyers.
To see their pic collages and read more about the project, please visit Mrs. Downey’s blog post about it! You can find it here.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Students in Mrs. Becker’s Class created Virtual Posters after Reading Island of the Blue Dolphins. I absolutely love how these turned out. Students drew pictures, and then used the Pic Collage app on the iPads to take pictures of their illustrations. They layered them on top of each other, added the text, and added the background. It’s a great mix of student art work and digital work. I love them!
Students even posted them to their blogs. Take a look the link below, and leave them a comment or two on their great work!
Island of the Blue Dolphin Virtual Posters
Company of London Brochures
Students in one of Mrs. Mulvaney’s Classes became Company of London travel agents! They created brochures to persuade settlers to come to Jamestown (in 1625).
During this project, students were able to choose how to make their brochures. They could use Microsoft Publisher or the Printing Press from Read, Write, Think. Students also learned to save and use pictures from a copyright friendly website (Pics 4 Learning).
You can look at their creations below!
Cross posted on the Oak Grove Digital Archive
Pumpkin Skype
Students in Mrs. Atkin’s Class skyped with a first grade class at Green Valley to compare the number of seeds in a class pumpkin, to tell jokes, and to read descriptive paragraphs. Students had a great time! Check out their favorite pumpkin joke below:
Pumpkin Skype from elemitrt on Vimeo.