Lowell Students Use a Webquest to Explore Environmental Challenges
Posted by Juli on November 17, 2009 in 1, Internet Research, PowerPoint, Social Studies
Students in Dustin Wood’s classroom used a webquest to explore current environmental problems facing Earth. Students worked in teams to develop presentations about a particular topic (e.g., extinction, landfills, air pollution…). In the scenario for this activity, each student team is vying for $1 million in funding from the fictional Help Our World (HOW) Foundation. As members of the HOW Foundation, all students will vote for the team that makes the best case for its environmental issue.
A Middle School Teacher Uses Photostory for the First Time
Posted by Juli on May 12, 2009 in Internet Research, Photo Story 3, Social Studies
Barbara Beers, 8th grade geography teacher at Whitman Middle School, was tired of using Power Point for student projects. (She’s not alone, a fun video – How Not to Use Powerpoint.) With the support of her librarian and Instructional Technology Specialist, she decided to try Photostory for the first time. In this post, you will find an overview of the project phases, links to her project files, and student work samples.
Project Purpose: to create a “sense of place” about a country in North Africa or Southwest Asia. See her project handout for details about student expectations. This project was part of a larger unit that included a UNESCO essay designed to use a research gathering tool which prompted students to gather background information about an assigned country (essay handout).
Key Resources: UNESCO website, eLibrary (great resources for pictures & maps), Photostory3 handout (QRD)
Digital Storytelling at SBOC
Posted by Janice on April 6, 2009 in Content Areas, English Language Learners, Photo Story 3, Social Studies, Teacher Voices
What makes the Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center unique is their student body. Students who come to the SBOC are newcomers to the United States often with little English and limited formal academic skills. They also have varying social and life skills, which makes it difficult to cope with their new home in Seattle. In order to support them, and help them adjust here, it is important to know what they feel about their country of origin.
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Digital Media in the Classroom
Posted by Gary on November 5, 2008 in Internet Research, Language Arts, Photo Story 3, Podcasting, PowerPoint, Science, Social Studies, Teacher Voices
An excellent example of teachers and students using digital media in the classroom is Nathan Hale’s 10th Grade Academy. These students are creating movies about the effects of worldwide epidemics as a research project. The Hale teachers realized that the video editing process would consume too much time and decrease the time students spent learning the content. Their solution was to imitate the “Ken Burns” style and create movies using only digital photos instead of video. To do this, the teachers designated Photostory 3 as the “movie” making application. These changes helped simplify the movie making process and reduced “creation” time significantly. (more…)
StoryCorps Oral History Project
Posted by Harvey on February 12, 2008 in Content Areas, English Language Learners, Language Arts, Libraries, Podcasting, Social Studies
The StoryCorps project is focused on creating connections between Americans by creating the opportunity for them to speak and listen as they talk about the meaningful aspects of their lives. Featured on NPR, and archiving all recorded stories in partnership with the Library of Congress, StoryCorps is the largest oral history project of its kind. Educators can use StoryCorps directly in the classroom (more…)
Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home Virtual Tour
Posted by Gary on January 17, 2008 in Content Areas, Internet Research, Social Studies
A 4th grade teacher shared this National Park Service resource site (Birth Home Tour) that gives a virtual tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s boyhood home in Atlanta Georgia. Using this site you can gain a better understanding by seeing and reading about his boyhood home. Also you can download the text for many of King’s speeches at this site (MLK Speeches). More National Park virtual tours can be found at http://www.nps.gov/ .
Using Video From the Internet
Posted by Eric C. on November 28, 2007 in Foreign Languages, Instructional Strategies, Language Arts, Math, Music, Science, Social Studies, The Arts
More and more teachers are looking to the Internet as a source for videos to use in their classrooms. But before getting carried away there are a couple of major considerations to think about. First, is access to the videos you want blocked? Second, is your school’s Internet connection robust enough to handle watching video? (more…)
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