Prepare to be blown away in Unit 10! Windy Days is a fun, interactive and engaging unit in which you will breeze through Computer Science and Digital Literacy Content Standards by the use of apps like epic!, BOOK CREATOR, Kahoot! and Seesaw. You will use SeeSaw to document student accountability and responses, epic! to view and read a collection of books about wind, and Book Creator to dictate and create digital illustrations of written work. To end the unit you will use Kahoot! to create of use a fun and interactive assessment which can be played in groups or pairs depending on the available amount of technology in your classroom.
At the beginning of the unit, preferably Day 1, you will assign a collection of books in epic! You will be required to establish a teacher account and be sure to download epic! on student iPads for them to use. In this app the books should be related to wind for the students to read or listen to while in your reading center during workstations. Once the student has read or listened to a story, they will then write and illustrate something they learned about wind from the story. They will then use the SeeSaw writer’s workshop activity to upload their student reflection into their individual journals on SeeSaw. You will need to create a teacher page in Seesaw and down app on student iPads.
Teacher Tip* You will need to share this activity with your class prior to assigning the Writers Workshop. Please click here for a quick tutorial.
Next, during a whole group writing you will complete a writing activity called “On a windy day I…” During this lesson you should include appropriate writing mechanics and model your expectations for the writing assignment. Once the student’s story and illustration are complete have students share their work using the Timed Pair Share Kagan Structure. With time permitting, introduce expectations for creating student pages by showing them BOOK CREATOR. Students can then create their page in the class book during a small group or workstation. Once created, you can share with students whole group and/or upload to SeeSaw for parents to view.
If you prefer to do an unplugged version of this activity, you can take all writing sheets and bind them into a classbook. This book can be added to your Reading Nook or Reading Station for the students to enjoy.
On Day 15 you will do an end of the unit review using Kahoot! This is an app that allows you to create fun interactive multiple choice questions to use as a review. You will use student iPads and the smartboard to do this activity. We have attached a 5 minute instructional video which will guide you to setting up an account and how to create your Kahoot! Please click here if you would like to use the Unit 10- Windy Days Kahoot! which has been created for your use. Happy Kahooting!!!
We hope you find this Windy Days unit a breeze to use and enjoy the engaging activities we have created to help you and your students learn through the use of technology.
Standards
ELA K.RI.6.1, K.W.3.1 CS . K.I.1.1, K.DL.1.2 AuthorsTanasha Johnson
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