JanActivities-Reformat

in Winter** ||<  Students will create a movie using National Geographic's Wildlife Film Maker. The movie will be about what some animals do during the winter to survive. The movie has to be made in one session so plan what animals to use and captions to write on a planning sheet. ||<  Wildlife Film Maker Site
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[|Planning Sheet] ||< 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. || Glyph** ||< 
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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. ||<  [|Glyph Template]

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Math Book** ||< 
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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. ||<  ||<  ||
 * = **Winter Poem or Book Talk** ||< Students will write a winter themed poem (winter, snowflakes, snow, etc.) and illustrate it to create a VoiceThread. ||<  [[file:BookTalkForm.pdf]] ||<  ||
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Final projects will be uploaded to the wiki page. ||<  ||< 
 * Winter in 6 Words** ||< Student use PowerPoint to make a short 6 page presentation. called Winter in 6 Words. On each slide the student inserts a winter picture and then writes a 6 word descriptive sentence describing the picture. Save the presentation as a JPEG File Interchange Format. Then the pages are uploaded to Photostory3, a free program. In Photostory3 the students add transitions, music and narrations to each slide.

Example of 3rd Grade Project along with more details. ||
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 * Winter Fun Voki** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teacher will set up a free Voki account and then make a Winter themed Voki asking students a question. The question could be about a winter book you've read, favorite winter activities or perhaps ways to warm up in the winter. Once the voki is complete embed it on you wiki page. Students listen to the teacher's Voki and then click on comment-leave a comment. Then students create their own Voki and answer the question by typing it or recording it. Students do not need accounts. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Voki Site ||  ||
 * **<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Snowflake Bentley ** || Read the story Snowflake Bentley to the children. Have children look at his photographs and photographs of other snowflakes. Then have children go into to paint program such as TuxPaint or Microsoft Paint and make their own 6 sided flake. Take the completed images and upload them to Animoto for a slideshow. Images could also be uploaded to Voicethread and then children could add a fact about Snowflake Bentley, winter or something they like to do in the winter. || Wilson Bentley Flakes

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[|Snowflake Bentley Book Info] ||  ||