StoryBird: The Changing Seasons

The Changing Seasons

Science Kindergarten:
Educational Standard #2: Earth and Space Science. Students will gain an understanding of Earth and Space Science through the study of earth materials and weather.

Objective #3: Compare changes in weather over time.

Educational Technology Standard #5: Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

• StoryBird is a fun site where we all have access to making our own storybooks. It has thousands of pictures to choose from and is easy to use! I really enjoyed using it to portray the different seasons on Earth. I definitely want to incorporate this feature into my classroom for lessons in the future. I have attached a sample story for parents and students to read together. StoryBird gives each of us an opportunity to become an author!
• After reading our StoryBird on the Seasons, we will make our own seasons in our class. We will divide our classroom into 4 seasons and in each section separate things that belong in that category. 

Prezi: Living and Nonliving things in an Environment

Living and Nonliving

Social Studies 3rd Grade: 

Educational Standard #2: Students will understand that organisms depend on living and nonliving things within their environment. Objective #1: Classify living and nonliving things in an environment.

Educational Technology Standard #5: Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

• Prezi was a really fun tool to work with, and I am excited to work with it again in the future. I like being able to link similar ideas together in one bubble, but then having the whole project revolve around a subject I am teaching. It is excellent!
• We will be reviewing this Prezi in class alongside our normal lesson. We will spend the majority of our time outside in the schoolyard classifying Living and Nonliving things in our "school environment."
• We will be making a huge classroom poster to separate Living and Nonliving things. I would like each of you to bring 4 pictures to school, 2 pictures of something Living and 2 pictures of something Nonliving. We will then work as a group to separate each of these.