3 Facts+1 Fib

Today 4th graders in Mrs. Waggoner’s class had a blast making CheckThis websites as a getting to know you project. Basically this was the techie version of the popular 3 Facts and 1 Fib back to school activity. We kicked off the lesson by students navigating to the Student Server to pull up the Google Doc below (settings were set to “anyone with the link can edit”).  They did NOT have to sign into Google for today’s lesson. We wanted to show them how a collaborative Google Doc worked so we called out their student numbers (very slowly) and had each child type his/her name next to their student number. The kids LOVED seeing their friends’ names pop up on their screen in real time

Next, we had the students click on the Meet Mrs. Smith link to take them to an example of what their final creation would look like but it was all about ME. They voted on which of the four statements was NOT true. I sure was a tricky one

We then clicked on the 3 Facts+ 1 Fib link that I had embedded below the Meet Mrs. Smith link. I just love how this whole lesson was embedded into this one Google Doc. THANK YOU GOOGLE for making our life SO much easier! 

Students made their own “website” by adding a title, subtitle, selfie (a webcam is available within this digital tool) and added a poll that that contained their 4 sentences. Mrs. Waggoner sprang into action and was able to work one on one with some of her students on their sentence structure while others were ferociously typing their sentences. I guess these kids really like to write when they write about themselves

After we published the websites, students copied their url and pasted it into the Google Doc next to their name. We wrapped up the lesson by changing the Google Doc’s share settings to “anyone with the link can view” and students spent the remaining time clicking on their friends’ links and voting on the one statement they thought was the fib.