iMovie Story Projects
iMovie projects allow students to develop their ideas for a real audience. Through the process of editing and publishing students have the opportunity to develop their computer literacy and gain confidence in their communication skills using a computer application.
How I will use this activity:
- Coming up with an original concept to share with an audience
- Working within a small group
- Editing
- Teach video production and editing using iMovie
- Fluency
How I will use this activity:
- Coming up with an original concept to share with an audience
- Working within a small group
- Editing
- Teach video production and editing using iMovie
- Fluency
Graphic Organizers
This Yup'ik dance fan and spiral web are fun culturally relevant ways to incorporate native artifacts into learning. This fan is made by combining a woman and a man's dance fan into one. The umbrella is in innovative way to display thoughts so I included it also. It is important to allow many options for graphic organizers so that teachers can communicate with students in a way that resonates with each student's learning style.
How I will use this activity:
- Whole class instruction
- Small groups and pair share processing
- Prewrite activities
- Preceding thematic instruction to meet interests of students and keep us focused
- Review
How I will use this activity:
- Whole class instruction
- Small groups and pair share processing
- Prewrite activities
- Preceding thematic instruction to meet interests of students and keep us focused
- Review
Interactive Online Idea Webbing
These interactive webbing sites are a fun way for students to create webs for prewriting activities, science content, or any subject for that matter. Spiderscribe can be very detailed and wonderful for older elementary student to adults. Bubbl is very simple and easier for younger students to visualize. These sites lend themselves very well to interactive whiteboards for whole group instruction or iPads for small group work.
How I will use this activity:
- Prewrite activity
- Science, Social Study unit instruction
- Build familiarity with SMART board
- Small group sharing
- Computer skills
How I will use this activity:
- Prewrite activity
- Science, Social Study unit instruction
- Build familiarity with SMART board
- Small group sharing
- Computer skills