Grades+3-5+Standard+2d

Grades 3 - 5 Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance,to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. 2d Students: contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems
 * NETS-S Standard 2. Communication and Collaboration **

LESSON: Grade 3 Subject Area: Folk Tales Content Standard: Language Arts I ; History Lesson Title: Kerpoof Tall Tales Time needed: 3 sessions to introduce/research tall tales, fact vs. fiction. 3 days to produce digital product. Short description of the lesson: Students read a selection of tall tales and explore historical facts. Look at fact vs. fiction in the tall tale. Create digital project showing fact/fiction in their own tall tale.

Online application used & other possibilities (include notes like: use the “edu version”, you can create your students’ accounts) Kerpoof (need account to save movies - some cost may be involved). OR use Photostory to create slides showing fact vs. fiction.

What hardware and software is needed? Computers, Kerpoof account or Photostory. Student example: (insert document or link) See lesson plans (Tall Tale) on Kerpoof websites ([|www.kerpoof.com])

LESSON: Grade 5 Subject Area: Current Events Content Standard: Social Studies Lesson Title: Current Events Discussion Time needed: 1 month <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short description of the lesson: Each project team will choose a current events topic (global warming, natural disasters, political elections, health care issues, homelessness, etc.) to research. Create a VoiceThread conversation with each team members contributing their fact. Invite another team to listen to the Voice Thread and record their opinions based on the given facts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online application used & other possibilities (include notes like: use the “edu version”, you can create your students’ accounts): VoiceThread.com

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What hardware and software is needed? Computers, microphone

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student example: (insert document or link) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[]

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online application used & other possibilities (include notes like: use the “edu version”, you can create your students’ accounts)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What hardware and software is needed?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student example: (insert document or link)