As mentioned in my previous post, an assignment the 5th graders have been working on is research for a college they had chosen and 'followed' for March Madness. The research they have been conducting is being turned into a PowerPoint presentation on GoogleDocs that they will then present to their classmates. A few things they are researching about the college include tuition costs, history, famous alumni, mascot and school colors, as well as traditions.
This project has been great in the fact that students have gotten good practice using key words to do research, inserting pictures and videos into their PowerPoint, and have gotten more familiar with features of the program, such as transitions and slide design to make it more unique.
Here are a few links to some examples (they may not be perfect because students aren't quite done with them!)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bPPZpxmlL2OgPKJsmqwrkAiIBH5d5_PMg4Ty5tcJWvQ/edit#slide=id.g991f52c57_0_0
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fZXseeXeDFCSwxQBjBADpoGeSg_ZIVZuUecTiaDqs7w/edit#slide=id.g8d895b435_05
POETRY: At the end of 5th grade, we also make a poetry book with a collection and variety of poems from throughout the year. Students will be typing some of the poems they have created for their books, but we will also be using some online resources as well. One of them includes the ReadWriteThink website for a Diamante poem: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/diamante/ This is great because the template is ready to go and students can type, save, and print easily from the website! **Student examples to come!!
Another idea I have for the end of the year is to have the 5th graders collaborate on a GoogleDoc, with each student writing a couplet poem about a memory from their fifth grade year. That way, when it is all done, students will have a collection of memories that they worked together on to take with them as they move to middle school! We've had so much going on, we haven't gotten a chance to dive into this yet! I'm excited to see how it turns out!!
