Grandparent’s Day

Recap and share events that have occurred at school in celebration of this special day.  Record each student telling why grandparents are important or a special memory with a grandparent
Tools:
Photo Story, using digital images
Audacity, audio recording
Small Wonders / Movie Maker, video recording

Math and Science

Use the Small Wonders video camera to record students explaining a math or science concept.  Continue this process as new concepts are introduced and compile a resource of media files on a podcast site where students can study/review/relearn what is taught in class.  This can also be a great homework help that students/parents can access from home!  Near TAKS time media files can be saved on a CD and sent home with all students!

Reader’s Theather

Assign parts, practice reading with fluency, and record an Audio Podcast of the selection. 

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Audio Podcast, Photo Story, or Movie project describing an Outdoor Learning Environment.  Focus or elaborate on details such as soil, rocks, plant needs, types of growth, etc.

Proud to be an American / Texan

Each day begins with pledges to both the US and Texas flags.  Do your students really understand what they are saying?  Create a Photo Story with images that illustrate each phrase and explain what it means.

Or, use the same idea to create a Photo Story illustrating a school or classroom pledge!

Field Trip Experiences

Audio Podcast, Photo Story, or Movie project recapping a field trip experience.

You Think English Is Easy???

Assign each of the statements below to a student or a pair of students and have them find digital images that illustrate each of the multiple meanings and then create a Photo Story using the images and record narration.

  1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
  2. The farm was used to produce produce.
  3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
  4. He could lead if he would get the lead out   
  5. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
  6. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
  7. …and other such word usages.

Let’s face it – English is a crazy language There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England nor French fries in France… Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square.  We ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?  How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.  English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.