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COOL TOOLS To Make Your Heart Skip A Beat
By: Susan AppletonGraduate Student: Old Dominion University
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Who Am I?
Why Use Technology?
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Reasons For Using Technology:
LET’S JUMP IN AND HAVE SOME FUN!
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Activities I am using target 5th-grade, but can be adjusted to fit most students and the curriculum that they cover in grades 3-12.
Big Huge Labs• Can be used to
create posters, trading cards, magazine covers, and other fun graphics to show comprehension.
www.bighugelabs.com
Look at THIS trading card about ME!
Magazine covers that describe!
This is a sample one I created using my daughter’s picture and descriptions about her.
You can make a cube with pictures and blank sides to add your own text. Folding directions are provided too.
Curriculum Applications• Students will research different animals and make trading cards to tell
about them. Then, students will classify the trading cards (vertebrates/invertebrates)
Science 5.5b)Classification of organisms using physical body characteristics, structure, and behavior of the organisms.• Other possible uses for bighugelabs.com includes reporting research
facts or descriptions on such topics as characters in stories, scientists, planets, historical events or people, etc.
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Curriculum Applications
Students could create their own pixieclip videos where they explain how to work a decimal problem and then share the videos in class. Math 5.5 The student willa) find the sum, difference, product, and quotient of two numbers expressed as decimalsthrough thousandths (divisors with only one nonzero digit); andb) create and solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving decimals.
Other Ideas:• Draw story maps that show the sequence of plot in a story.• Draw and label the parts of animal/plant cells.• Write words and divide them into syllables• Draw a map of the state of Virginia and label the regions
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Canva www.canva.com
Posters
Here’s an example I created for our school’s Open House.
Flyers
Curriculum Applications
• Students could design posters or flyers about a topic they are studying in class. This could include a famous person, a book or story they were assigned to read, historical figures, states, animals, etc. The resulting project must include pictures and facts learned from the research process.
(English 5.9c: Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and communicate information.)
Other Ideas For Using Canva:• Make a poster about someone you had to interview.• Make a flyer to describe things you have learned in a class.• Design a poster that describes your favorite book (Read Across America Week)• Make a flyer that tells about your school (something that would tell new students all about what your school has to offer them.)• Design a poster that tells about one of your vocabulary words (origin, pronunciation, definition, part of speech, synonyms and antonyms, etc.)
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Curriculum Applications• The student could be required to summarize notes that were taken in class and to share their thoughts about
what was discussed.(English 5.9e: Develop notes that include important concepts, summaries, and identification of information sources.)
Other Ideas:• Book reports• Lab reports• Create practice study guides/questions for tests that are coming up.• Research project results• Poetry (favorites read AND original creations) • Math Word Problems (created and worked out)
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ANY QUESTIONS??
My contact information:Susan AppletonEmail: [email protected]: http://www.futurelibrarian2016.blogspot.com