Mrs. Vest’s Class created greenscreen videos about Egypt and China using Greenscreen by Doink! Check out their video creations below.
Archives: social studies
Famous American Glogs
Mrs. Bralley’s Third Grade Reading Classes have been learning about Famous People. They’ve read stories, explored interactive iPad apps, researched, made story cubes, and even created their own Glogs on Glogster EDU.
They are very proud of their work. Check out a few of Glogster posters below or check them all out in the class Glog Book.
First Graders Make Economics Posters
Students in first grade at Glenvar are making Pic Collages about Producers and Consumers. The kids LOVED using Pic College! Here are a few examples (and pictures)!
Bringing Abe and George to Life with ChatterPix
Mrs. Parks’ Class animated their pictures of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington using the app ChatterPix Kids. Check it out!
Talking Presidents
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:
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
Greece and Rome Geocaching
Third Grade went Geocaching in Mrs. Weikle’s room during their study of Greece and Rome! Using GPS units, students worked in teams to locate hidden boxes outside the school. The boxes contained clues about either Greece or Rome or neither. Students had to figure out which! It was cold, but everyone had a blast!
There are two versions of the activity–one that uses GPS units (Geocaching), and one that uses iPads or iPods with QR code readers.
Geocaching:
1. Print the cards on different colored tagboard (blue, red, yellow). Use the Answer Sheet to divide the cards between 6 boxes.
2. Hide the boxes around the school yard and mark each location with the gps unit.
3. Divide the students into no more than six groups. Give students the blank answer sheet, a pencil, gps unit, and an order strip.
4. Have students find the boxes in the order on the strip. When they find the box, they read the clues and determine which color card matches which civilization. They record colors on their answer sheets.
QR Codes
1. QR cards on tagboard. Divide them between 6 boxes.
2. Place the boxes around the room (as stations).
3. Divide the students into no more than six groups. Give students the blank answer sheet, a pencil, an iPod/iPad loaded with a QR code reader (we use Inigma).
4. Have students rotate through the stations and scan the QR codes. Students must determine which color card matches which civilization. They record on colors on their answer sheets.
Cross posted on the Oak Grove Digital Archive and Adventures in Learning Geocaching Blog.
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
Jamestown QR Codes at Clearbrook
Students in Mrs. Schlosser’s class used QR codes, iPads, and videos to explore Jamestown! It was an adaptation of the geocaching activity I did with students last year. This time, instead of finding boxes in the school yard with questions in them (it was way too cold), students scanned QR codes placed in the halls of the school. The QR codes asked questions, and students used videos loaded on the iPads from HistoryIsFun.org to answer them. We did learn it was important to spread the QR codes far enough a part so that student groups didn’t feel crowded by other groups. They all had fun and learned about Jamestown too!
Diversity Pic Collages
Mrs. Chamberland’s Social Studies class is studying Diversity. This past week, they used the iPad app, Pic Collage, to create digital posters showing what diversity in the United States look like. Here was their challenge:
Create a Pic Collage that helps show what diversity in Virginia looks like. Include pictures and words. You must have 3 examples of ways you see diversity in your life. You must use pictures and words in your collage.
Their projects are below!
