Category Archives: websites
Kindergarten Butterfly Life Cycles
Ms. Lee’s kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning about the butterfly life cycle in science (SOLK.6). Since a life cycle is a sequence that involves change, it’s a perfect subject for an animation. So today we made animations of the butterfly life cycle using a site called ArtPad. First the students used the […] Continue reading
4th Grade Choose-Your-Own Adventure Stories
Fourth grade students in Ms. Tonello’s class at Holladay Elementary created choose-your-own adventure stories today about Jamestown using Inklewriter. They’ve learned about all the problems the Jamestown settlers had (VS.3), but what if the settlers made different choices? How would the outcomes be different? First I showed them a couple of examples to show them […] Continue reading
1st Grade U.S. Symbols Research
First graders in Ms. Long’s class at Davis Elementary are doing research projects on the U.S. Symbols (SOL1.11). One great place to do research is PebbleGo because they have pages about all the U.S. Symbols, but did you know you can make your own webpage for research like PebbleGo? The advantage to making your own […] Continue reading
5th Grade Henrico Math Websites
Fifth grade students in Ms. Allen’s class at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about important places in Henrico County (HC.1). They have also been studying 2-digit multiplication in math. So today we combined the two topics into one lesson. First the students had to pick two famous places in Henrico County and use Google Maps […] Continue reading
3rd Grade Migration Place Value
Third graders at Holladay have been studying animal migration (SOL3.4) and they have also been studying place value. Since animals usually migrate long distances (numbers in the hundreds or thousands), I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to review both concepts at the same time. First the students picked an animal that migrates and […] Continue reading
Trekker Updates
I had a great summer traveling across the country to California going the northern route and making videos for our 5th graders who are studying the regions of the United States. Last summer I went the southern route with the Virginia Trekkers and those videos are on our website. I haven’t finished editing the videos […] Continue reading
Kindergarten Frog Life Cycles
Today the kindergarteners in Ms. Brown’s class at Holladay Elementary showed that when students are given many opportunities to use the computers, they can do amazing things! Sometimes I can’t even believe it. In just under an hour, they were able to create a digital drawing of the frog life cycle using ArtPad, record their […] Continue reading
4th Grade Plant Prezis
Fourth graders at Chamberlayne Elementary have been studying the parts of a flowering plant (SOL 4.4) so today they made interactive diagrams of a flower using Prezi. First they drew a picture of a flower in Pixie. They looked at online photos to get different ideas for the type of flower they wanted to draw. […] Continue reading
4th Grade Civil War Instabloggs
Earlier, on this post, I described a lesson where students created Civil War timelines using TimelineJS. I was teaching that lesson today with a different group of students at Holladay Elementary and wanted a good way for them to save and display their timelines. Instablogg is one of the best sites I have found for […] Continue reading
Kindergarten & 1st Grade Flower Animations
Kindergarteners and 1st graders at Holladay have been learning all about plants and flowers and how they grow in the spring (SOL K.9 & 1.4). So today I tried two different ways to create animations with them. In Kindergarten we used a site called ArtPad. It records the painting process from start to end, so […] Continue reading
