Third graders at Holladay Elementary have finished their study of Greece & Rome and were ready today for a final project to review and share what they have learned. I showed them how to create free websites using CheckThis. First they had to decide which ancient civilization they wanted to review. We wrote that in the title. Next they had to pretend that they actually lived in ancient Greece or Rome and tell about their lives. They had to include facts about land features, occupations, trade, sports, art, etc. They wrote a paragraph, or as much as they could in the alloted time (you can save if you log into an account, but since we didn’t, we had to finish the website in the hour we had together). I showed them how to add a picture from the Internet, but I also just learned today that CheckThis has a webcam feature you can use to add pictures. So I was able to test it out with Ms. Marion’s class. They took pictures from classroom books about Greece and Rome. We also added a Google map of the region that was fully interactive. Finally, we wrote poll questions for site visitors to answer. You can see all the websites by clicking on the teacher links below:
http://tinyurl.com/checkthismarion
http://tinyurl.com/checkthisbarnes
http://tinyurl.com/checkthiscowart
