During the Back to School Unit, students will explore various topics about schools here and around the world. Included in this blog are three activities that can be used throughout this unit in whole group, small group, and/or workstations.
EPIC! - Workstation
After reading, both students will complete their own graphic organizer which has them illustrate their favorite part of the story. Partners will share their illustrations by verbally describing their favorite part while their partner listens and records their presentation using the Seesaw app. Click here for a tutorial on Seesaw.
Graphic organizers are a great way for students to record and respond after reading a text. You can use different books or change the graphic organizers in order to practice and assess different comprehension skills and strategies. (ex: compare and contrast, main idea and details etc.) Below are two graphic organizers you can use for this task.
Click here to access a student friendly task card. Since this activity falls during the first few weeks of school, feel free to adapt this activity to whole group or small group. The teacher could read aloud or play the books out loud when technology is not available. To adjust for high flyers students may illustrate their favorite part, as well as, write sentences describing their illustration.
Character Traits with Scratch Jr. - Whole Group
Create your Scratch Jr. account on the web or in the Scratch Jr. app. To help you get started using and creating characters on Scratch Jr. click on the Scratch Jr.tutorial. This would also be a good video/resource to show your class prior to using Scratch Jr.
*If this is a student's first time using Scratch Jr., you can project the Scratch Jr. app on the SmartBoard and work as a whole group to create characters, scenes, and movements which identify the characters’ feelings and actions. To guide students to complete this task in small groups/pairs, you can use this task card for student directions.
PicCollage - Inquiry/Flex Presentation
Students can use their iPad to search pictures to create a PicCollage. Teachers may also use additional texts on schools from now and from the past in order to allow students to take and gather photos for their collage. Visit your school or local library for additional texts to add to your library in your classroom for this lesson.
Once students have gathered their images in the photo library they will use thePicCollage App to upload their photos into the app and create a collage. Students will share their finished product with the class on inquiry day. Here is a PicCollage tutorial to help you and your students get started. Click here to access a task card for students to use.
Standards
ELA 1-RI.41, 1-RL.4.1, 1-C.1.5, 1-RL.8.1.a CS 1.DL.1.2 AuthorsLauren Jadallah
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