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Newspaper
Text Messages
Have students demonstrate their knowledge of a topic by creating everything from a newspaper to an Instagram post! Please make sure to MAKE A COPY of the templates and not request access.
3D Designed
Create a Website
Screencastify Tour
A 21st century take on the old 4th grade mission project. Students must answer questions related to their mission, write a narrative essay, create a 3D mission using Tinkercad, and put all of this into a website! They must then use screencastify to show off their work and give a virtual tour of both their mission and their website.
Modern Music
Poetry Analysis
Audio & Docs
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Students will analyze current music to find poetic terminology and references. They will highlight accordingly and add comments to lines to explain the meaning behind it.
Website Cretion
Budgiting
Narrative Writing
You are going to write a travel blog about your virtual vacation. This will be a multi-part project that includes reading, writing, and math. You will be asked to use your imagination as well as your research skills to write a blog about a trip to New York. This will be completed individually or with a partner. Included in this blog must be your travel arrangements, your meal plans, your accommodations, what you're going to do for entertainment and which sites of historical significance you are going to visit (minimum of 4). You will also need to plan and budget for transportation. You cannot drive yourself. You must stay in a hotel.
The Struggles of Chinese Immigrants
Relates to Situations Found in The Earth Dragon Awakes
Includes an Opinion Writing Prompt
Chinese immigration in the United States, specifically California, is a time in history that is often overlooked in public schooling. Using these resources as a prelude to reading The Earth Dragon Awakes is a great way to expose your students to the struggles and hardships that many Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans faced. It also provides the time to have a discussion with students about the racism many Chinese immigrants faced in the past, and still face today. How did the stereotypes exclude immigrants and shape societal culture? I found that teaching this lesson before reading the Earth Dragon Awakes tremendously improved my students interest in the book and allowed them to analyze a variety of texts revolving around specific situations.
Memes are an amazing way to keep students both engaged and thinking critically. If you aren't familiar with memes or what they mean, there is a file located within the folder that has examples. It is by far my students favorite way to demonstrate their learning.
Current Memes
Can be Used for All Subject Ares
Require Critical Thinking
Allow students to react, annotate, comment, and reply using topical ways of expression.
School Appropriate
Relevant Responses
Engaging
Summarize Novel or Historial Event
Provide Seqencing of Events
Analyze the Text
Students can demonstrate their learning on a familiar medium. I have found that it is great for book analysis or sequencing/detailing historical events.