Category Archives: 3rd Grade
3rd Grade Money & Change Comics
Third graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning how to count money and make change (SOL3.8), so today students in Ms. Ford’s class created comics about buying things and getting change back. I posted a link to StoryboardThat on Google classroom, and when students opened the website we clicked “Create a Storyboard.” First we looked…
3rd Grade Money & Change Comics
Third graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning how to count money and make change (SOL3.8), so today students in Ms. Ford’s class created comics about buying things and getting change back. I posted a link to StoryboardThat on Google classroom, and when students opened the website we clicked “Create a Storyboard.” First we looked…
3rd Grade Simple Machines
Third graders at Holladay Elementary have been studying simple machines (SOL3.2), so today students in Ms. Middleton’s and Ms. Edelblut’s classes created animations to show how different simple machines work. I posted a similar lesson a couple of years ago here, but I did a couple of things differently this time that I wanted to…
Bowling Fractions!
I am so excited! The latest episode of Math on the Spot has been uploaded to the blog. This time the Elementary ITRT’s participated in a bowling competition at Bowl America. Each team bowled a round, figured out the fraction of pins they knocked down and then added their total to their partner’s total in …
3rd Grade Time & Matter
Third graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about the states of matter in science (SOL3.3) and equivalent time in math (SOL3.12), so today we created Google slideshows exploring how long it would take for different types of matter to change states in equivalent times. First I made a blank Google slideshow and posted it…
3rd Grade Animated Life Cycles
Third graders at Laburnum Elementary have been studying animal life cycles (SOL3.8b), so today students in Ms. Collins’ class created animated insect life cycles using ABCYa! Animate. We picked insects because many students are very familiar with the butterfly life cycle, but they are not familiar with other insects’ life cycles. First we did some…
Google Tone for Easy Link Sharing
I’m beyond excited for Google Tone, a chrome extension that will make sharing links super easy. This extension is great for students because there is no need for email addresses in order to share a link. Google Tone needs to be installed on the computer sending Continue reading
3rd Grade Estimating Weight of Matter
Third graders at Varina Elementary are learning how to estimate weight in math (SOL3.9c), and they are studying matter in science (SOL3.3) so today students in Ms. Hambrick’s and Ms. Leo’s classes estimated the weights of different types of matter. First I gave them each a copy of a blank Google slideshow template in Google…
3rd Greece & Rome Nearpod
Nearpod is a cool webtool for making interactive presentations that provide live feedback from your students. They can answer your questions, draw or label a picture, take a quiz, vote on a poll, fill-in-the-blank, and more! Ms. Middleton at Holladay Elementary wanted to learn more about it, so today I showed her 3rd graders a…
