Tech+Projects+Elementary

toc // **Look here for project ideas that incorporate technology!** //

=Kindergarten=
 * **All About Me** (Ravinia) - In Kidspiration there is a template called, All About Me. Students find pictures that fit into the categories. Then, they use Brave spelling to write in a sentence.
 * **Keyboard Identification** (Oak Terrace)- Using Kidpix students type in their first and last name. They learn how to use the shift key to capitalize.
 * **Shape Identification** (Ravinia) - Students use Kidpix backgrounds to identify shapes they are studying in class. They use the pencil tool in order to show the different types of shapes.

=1st Grade=
 * **Google Earth for "Holidays around the World" (Sherwood)** - Teachers are using Google Earth to take students on a "tour" around the world to visit different countries where they will learn about their languages, holidays, customs, etc. The teachers are also making a flipchart for each country as part of their tour. Flipchart template - Holidays Around the World Flipchart Template
 * **Data Collection Sharing using Graph Club (Indian Trail)**- Students took survey of favorite foods, animals, sports and then created graphs using Graph Club
 * **Indoor/Outdoor** (Oak Terrace)- Students open a Kidspiration Template [[file:actividades de invierno]] A find activities they do in the winter indoors and outdoors. Students drag their pictures in the correct place, then they label what the picture shows. Students will then go to the writing section and write a sentence for each picture they labeled. (The template is in Spanish.)
 * **Healthy/Not Healthy** (Oak Terrace) - Students open a Kidspiration Template [[file:ComidaSana]] Students take the food pictures and drag them into the correct category. (In Spanish)
 * **Food Groups Assessment** (Oak Terrace)- Students will be given a Kidspiration Template and will have to drag the pictures to the correct Food Group.
 * **Webquest on Penguins** (Ravinia)- Students are paired up with 4th/5th graders and do a webquest regarding Penguins
 * **Penguin Poem -(Ravinia)** Students are paired up with 5th graders and do a poem regarding Penguins. Students work on typing their project in word.
 * **Skype with Oceanites** (Ravinia)- Students skyped with a scientist who works with penguins on Antactica.

=2nd Grade=
 * **Bat Webquest (Ravinia) -** Students were involved in a Bat Unit. The students learned how to navigate through a webquest while answering questions regarding bats. Bat Webquest . The handout given to students is attached on the wiki as well. This was a two day activity.
 * **Nocturnal Books** -(Ravinia) Students did research on one of five bats in groups. Then, they cut out there information and glued it onto color cards according to categories. Using Kidspiration, they created a web. Then, they printed the web and the writing piece out and wrote sentences from their ideas. Next, they typed their sentences on a Word Template that was created for them to represent a book. The book was then sent as a pdf and Booklet Creatorwas used to put the pages into a book.
 * **Olympics** - (OakTerrace) - Students did a webquest on the Olympics. Then, one class did a Prezi (Online presentation tool) on their findings.
 * **Virtual Tour Skype with the Fire Chief -** (Oak Terrace) - Students skyped with the Highwood Fire Chief asking him questions they came up with. In addition, students were given a virtual tour of the fire house.

=3rd Grade=
 * **Student Research Wikis (Braeside) -** Students researched a topic of interest with the help of the IMC teachers. Students came up with 5 facts on their topic. Using a template, the students logged on to the class wiki and added the information, along with a picture from Discovery Streaming. Example
 * **Plant Study PowerPoint (Wayne Thomas)** - Students have been researching plant life for a science unit. Students grew plants as part of the project and took pictures. Students created PowerPoint presentations on the different topics they've covered on plants. One of the slides included a diagram of a plant that was created using KidPix. [|Example Project]
 * **Jane Yolen Author Study (Braeside)** - Students did a month long author study with the help of the IMC teacher. Activities included a virtual author visit using Skype, researching through the author's webpage, and creating online book reviews on their class wiki.
 * **Biography Flipchart Presentations (Sherwood**) - Students are creating a presentation using Activstudio on the person they are researching.
 * **Planet Flipchart Presentations (Red Oak)** - Students are creating a presentation using Activstudio on the planet they are researching.
 * **Solar System Presentations (Braeside)** - Students researched topics on the solar system and created a simple 8-slide presentation using their research and the NASA Image Xchange. These presentations were then embedded on some teacher's wikis using Slideshare.net.
 * **Winter Olympic Sports Wiki (Wayne Thomas)** - Each student researched a different Winter Olympic sport using websites listed on the Wayne Thomas website. Students used a pre-printed planner to collect information and write short paragraphs on each topic. Students then created wikipedia-style entries on their class wiki that included pictures.
 * **Constellation Folk Tales Podcast (Braeside)** - Students wrote folk tales dealing with the constellations. The teachers took student illustrations and narration to create video podcasts using GarageBand.
 * **Voicethread Country Research-(Lincoln)-** Children researching different countries and their cultural differences. Created voicthreads with illustrations of things in culture and then doing a voice record of research found.

=4th Grade=
 * **Wiki for Online Student Portfolios (Red Oak)** - Students are using a wiki on which they each have a page, to publish a variety of final products.
 * **Animal Classification with Prezi (Braeside)** - Students jigsawed traits for different animal types. Student groups then used the collected information, along with pictures from Discovery Streaming, to create Prezi presentations. @http://www.prezi.com
 * **Park World** - Students went through this interactive websites to learn about gravity, magnetism and force.
 * **Geology Slideshows** **(Braeside)** - Students studied researched various topics related to geology with the librarian. They then took this information and created short PowerPoint slideshows with images from Discovery Streaming.
 * **Cultural Cuisines Wikis (Wayne Thomas) -** Students research a country of choice during their immigration unit for social studies. The students then interviewed people from that country. Ultimately the students will create wiki pages that include information about the specific country, as well as a number of different types of food that are part of that culture. Students may use pictures from the Internet or their digital cameras.
 * **Interactive Science ISAT Review (Wayne Thomas, Sherwood, Red Oak)** - Teachers used a flipchart with ISAT science review questions along with ActiVotes to create an interactive learning experience.
 * __**Because of Winn Dixie**__ **Literature Discussion Wiki** **(Sherwood)** - Students used the discussion boards on this literature-based wiki to share responses with their classroom teacher, IMC teacher, and the gifted education teacher.

=5th Grade=
 * **Wiki for Book Discussion Between Schools (Red Oak and Sherwood)** - The 5th grade students at Red Oak and Sherwood posted reading responses and shared ideas about the books they were reading on the Holocaust. Using the discussion boards, teachers posted prompts to which the students responded. Some teachers created a vocabulary page for their wiki.
 * **PowerPoint Presentation for Parent/Teacher Conferences (Sherwood and Oak Terrace)** - Students used PowerPoint to put together a presentation to be shared at parent/teacher conferences. Some of the things included in their presentations include goals and what they have learned.
 * **Native American ActivStudio Quizzes (Braeside)** - Students used QuestionMaster (part of ActivStudio) to create multiple-choice quizzes for a Native American presentation being given to visiting parents. Students wrote out five questions based on their own oral presentations. Students worked in groups of five to complete the quizzes.
 * **Healthy Body iPhoto Printed Books (Wayne Thomas)** - Students are creating printed books using iPhoto that focus on different aspects of a healthy lifestyle. Students researched the new food pyramid, aerobic/anaerobic exercises and kept a food diary. Students used the school's digital cameras to take pictures and upload them into iPhoto. Students worked in partners and uploaded the pictures with teacher direction. *Only for iPhoto Version 6+*
 * **Colonial Life Timelines (Wayne Thomas and Sherwood)** - Students will research ten important events during the 1700's in the colonies with the help of their teacher and IMC teacher. Students then will use Discovery Streaming to find an image to go along with each event. The students then will create timelines using TimeToast (http://www.timetoast.com) that incorporate the images from DS and their research of each event.
 * **Health and Wellness Wiki** -(Ravinia) Students do a webquest to gather information. Then, they will create a brochure using Word. The brochure states that a Doctor's office needs a brochure to explain health and wellness to teens.
 * **Life in Space** (OakTerrace) - Students learn how to do a wiki. Next, they are put into 5 groups to research how it is to live in space. They will put their information on the wiki. Based on everyone's contribution, they will each create a travel brochure regarding how it is to go up into space.
 * **Astronomy Wiki (Braeside)** - Students researched topics on astronomy and created a wikipedia-style wiki page that included pictures from Discovery Streaming and the NASA Image Xchange.
 * **Winter Olympic Sports Wiki (Wayne Thomas)** - Each student researched a different Winter Olympic sport using websites listed on the Wayne Thomas website. Students used a pre-printed planner to collect information and write paragraphs on each topic. Students then created wikipedia-style entries on their class wiki that included pictures.
 * **Digestive System Voicethread-(Indian Trail)**-Presenting research on the digestive system in a different manner than Powerpoint.
 * **Billboards** (Ravinia)- Using Comic Life students create a billboard poster to attract people to their colony.
 * **Reader Response Blogs (Ravinia)** - Students use Kidblog.org to write a reader response to what they were reading that week. This includes 2 or more paragraphs, a summary and a connection. Students then comment on each other's response.

=Art=
 * **Monster Exchange (Wayne Thomas)** - One third grade classroom was paired up with another class in South Dakota. Students illustrated pictures of monsters and then wrote descriptive paragraphs about them. The classes traded the descriptions and tried to 're-create' the original illustrations only using the descriptions. The classes then shared their final projects via Skype and a wiki. Wayne Thomas Art Wiki

=Music=
 * **Interactive Music Blog (Indian Trail)** - Students vote monthly on their favorite music video of the week selection. Indian Trail Music Room Blog

=P.E.=
 * **PEP Grant Wiki (All Elementary Schools)** - As part of the PEP grant, students needed to access their fitness test scores online. Students were able to do this via a wiki. Students scores were stored in a Google Doc spreadsheet and embedded into the wiki. Students were then able to access this information from any computer with internet access. PEP Grant Wiki
 * **Unit Collaboration Wiki (All Elementary Schools) -** Teacher use this wiki to share lesson plans and collaborate on units across multiple grade-levels.