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in Winter** ||= **Penguin Glyph** ||= **Penguin Math Book** ||= **Winter Poem or Book Talk** || **Winter in 6 Words** || Students will create a movie using National Geographic's Wildlife Film Maker. The movie has to be made in one session so plan what animals to use and captions to write on a planning sheet. __//Resources//__ [|Film Maker] [|Planning Sheet]
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As an alternative you could make a class movie using iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. Children could draw an animal or find a photograph from Creative Commons on the internet and insert it into the movie and write a sentence or two about the animal in winter. Each child could do one slide and they'd be combined into a movie. || //__Description__// Students will create a penguin glyph in PowerPoint using a template and legend. Students could also research facts about penguins and type it below their glyph. __//Files//__ [|Glyph Template] [|Glyph Legend] || __//Description//__ Students will use PowerPoint to create a Mini Math Book with a Penguin Theme. This activity will take take more than one 25-30 minute class period to complete and print. To create the mini books, print the presentation as handouts with 6 slides per page. The students or teacher can then trim the pages and staple them together to make a book. To model this activity for students, download the template and modify it slightly to show students how to use PowerPoint to create their Penguin Math Book. This will show them what they need to do but not give them the answers to the math problems in the Penguin Math Book. __//Files//__ PenguinMath-Kindergarten.ppt PenguinMath-Grade1.ppt PenguinMath-Grade2.ppt PenguinMath-Grade3.ppt || //__Description__// Students will write a winter themed poem (winter, snowflakes, snow, etc.) and illustrate it to create a VoiceThread. //__Files__// Book Talk Form || //__Description__// Student use PowerPoint to insert a winter picture and write a 6 word descriptive sentence to make a short 6 page presentation. Presentation is saved as ???? Then the pages are uploaded to Photostory3, a free program. In Photostory3 the students can add transitions and narrate each slide. Final projects will be uploaded to the wiki page. //__Resources__// Example of 3rd Grade Project along with more details. ||