Third graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about U.S. Customary and Metric units of measurement for length, capacity, and mass (SOL3.9). Today, students in Ms. Whittaker’s class created their own interactive measurement ebook. First we reviewed the different units and each student selected one. We tried to make sure that most of the units were chosen and that there weren’t too many duplicates. Next, we signed into BookCreator with the teacher’s class code. On the first page each student typed the name of their unit and drew a picture of it with the drawing tools. On the second page, they typed a sentence explaining what kinds of things are measured with that unit–big things, little things, light things, heavy things, liquids, etc. We also recorded a video, but those had problems loading, so next time I would probably just add a photo. On the last page students used the built-in image search to add photos of objects that could be measured with the unit. When they finished, the teacher combined the individual student chapters into one book that you can read here. (UPDATE: I taught a similar lesson to Ms. Cathcart’s class at Varina, and you can read their book here).
