I’ve been working with a small group of fourth grade students from Ms. Daniel’s class at Laburnum Elementary on their Henrico21 project. Today we were able to finish it. It all started about a month ago when the students came up with the idea of making a “Roller Coaster through the Curriculum” to help other 4th graders review for the upcoming SOL Tests. Each student chose a period of Virginia history and they were instructed to find 5 important events from that period to include on the timeline. They gathered their information and images from a variety of online sources and collected them into a Google Doc. They also recorded videos of themselves introducing their topics using the Photo Booth roller coaster background. Kenan used BuildWithChrome to make a virtual Lego model of the roller coaster. Once their research was complete, they used two websites to build the timelines. The first was JSTimeline which automatically generates a timeline from the Google Doc data. The second one was Dipity which not only generates a timeline, but it also turns the data into a flip book and an interactive map! Finally they created a webpage to share their timelines with the other 4th grade students using a site called Yola. Their project turned out great! You can take a look at it here.
