Category Archives: Downloads
Shapes Come Alive at Lakeside!
Claire Cunningham, a kindergarten teacher at Lakeside Elementary School, and I collaborated to plan a Children’s Engineering activity for her students. Using the blank Pixie template I created and placed in every child’s folder on the server, the students, in groups of two, created pictures using the shapes tool. I taught them how to make […] Continue reading
Give Us More, More, More Trackpad Sites!
In addition to all of the “point and click” trackpad activities we have been doing during the first nine weeks at all of my schools, the kindergarten and first grade students have been practicing “clicking and dragging” using the laptop trackpads as well. To reinforce the model activities I have been doing to introduce this […] Continue reading
1st Grade Motion/Keynote
This activity is for 1st grade when you cover motion. The pictures and terms are directly from the curriculum framework.
Click here to download the blank Keynote!
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Kindergarten Students Create Spooky Patterns!
The kindergarten students in Mrs. Bosse’s kindergarten class at Colonial Trail did an outstanding job of creating spooky patterns using the Halloween clipart found in Pixie! After they finished strategically placing their ghosts and ghouls on the template, they dictated a sentence about their patterns that was typed by the classroom teacher and ITRT. Way […] Continue reading
Cycles Go Round
Mrs. Wagner’s KG students show what they know about the life cycle of a pumpkin!
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Virginia Leaders Meet Pixie!
All of the fifth grade classes at Adams Elementary School learned some of the advanced features of Pixie while reviewing their knowledge of Virginia Leaders in social studies. Using a folder of pictures I placed in their folders along with a Virginia Leaders Pixie template I created, the students imported pictures of George Washington, George […] Continue reading
Maps and Globes Interactive Pixie Templates!
During a consultation with Denise Hoffer, a second grade teacher at Colonial Trail, she showed me a series of screenshots of a Hyperstudio activity on Maps and Globes that she obtained. Since we no longer have Hyperstudio, she asked me how we can re-create the activity making it interactive for her students. After careful consideration, […] Continue reading
Where are the Continents and Oceans?
After watching a Discovery Education video segment on the continents and oceans, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Lewis’s second graders at Colonial Trail labeled the continents and oceans on a Pixie template that I placed in every student’s folder. It was amazing how well the students remembered the locations of all seven of the continents and […] Continue reading
Pixie/Map Skills/ 2nd Grade
The 2nd graders at Glen Allen reviewed their map skills by creating treasure maps. I have included a sample image, a video with a student’s recording, and the template the kids started with.
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First Graders at Crestview Create Creature Patterns!
Mrs. Duncan and Mrs. Seccia’s first grade ghouls at Crestview created awesome spooky creature patterns containing units of two, three, or four using the Halloween clipart folder found in the program called Pixie. After they carefully placed their witches, ghosts, and other ghouls on the template, they phonetically typed a sentence telling about their patterns. […] Continue reading
