Sometimes working as an ITRT at four different schools can get lonely when you don’t get to work with your fellow ITRT teammates and collaborate. Then, there are days like today…
Jim Covais, and Ryan Stein and I took our talents to South Beach, er, Chamberlayne Elementary to help out fellow ITRT, Julie Goode. “JG and The Boys” went to all the fourth grade classes and completed some fun engaging Jamestown activities!
Mr. Stein started off with teaching the students the song, “In Virginia.” This is a song he wrote from his History MVP Program. The students read through all the lyrics before hand, and then they sang along with the song. The students had a great time learning the song along with working on reading fluency and vocabulary development.
For the next part of the lesson we broke the class up into three groups. One group went with Ms. Goode. These students made Photobooth movies about Jamestown using imported pictures as backgrounds. The second group went with Mr. Covais. They drew pictures about Jamestown information, took a picture of their drawing, and then uploaded and shared their information with the group using Padlet. The last group met with me. We used Photobooth and Keynote to make Blabberize Type movies. The students recorded themselves in Photobooth, dragged the video into Keynote, and then dragged the picture of their character with a missing mouth on top of the video. (I’ve also done this with Simple Machines)
JG and the Boys had a blast, and we’re already planning our next adventure at another school! Check out some of the great projects the students created!!
Mr. Covais’ Padlet Examples:
http://padlet.com/wall/riy4ltozg
http://padlet.com/wall/afmetb4j77
Mr. Hart’s Station Example:
Ms. Goode’s Station Examples:
