Category Archives: webtools
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…
5th Grade Sound Slideshows
Fifth graders at Holladay Elementary have been studying sound (SOL5.2), so today students in Ms. DiMatteo’s class created Google slideshows about two characteristics of sound waves: frequency and amplitude (SOL5.2b). First we explored these topics with various interactive websites. With the “Wave on a String” website, students can create their own waves and adjust the…
4th Grade Patterns
Fourth graders at Varina Elementary have been learning about numeric and geometric patterns (SOL4.15), so today students in Ms. Thomas’ and Ms. Connell’s classes created patterns using a variety of webtools. Ms. Thomas’ class hadn’t used Google slides yet, so I wanted to show them how to make an animated slideshow. I posted a blank…
1st Grade Famous Americans
First graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about famous Americans including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington Carver, and Benjamin Franklin (SOL1.2). Today students in Ms. Gerrard’s class used ABCYa! Storymaker to draw and write about a famous American of their choice. This easy-to-use webtool is a great…
4th Grade Biography Blogs & Voki
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been reading nonfiction, especially biographies and autobiographies (SOL4.6), so today students in Ms. White’s class created biography blogs with an embedded animated talking person from Voki. First I showed them how to log into their blogs. Every student and teacher in Henrico has their own blog. Once we were…
4th Grade Biography Blogs & Voki
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been reading nonfiction, especially biographies and autobiographies (SOL4.6), so today students in Ms. White’s class created biography blogs with an embedded animated talking person from Voki. First I showed them how to log into their blogs. Every student and teacher in Henrico has their own blog. Once we were…
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…
5th Grade Shapes Comics
Fifth graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about 2-D plane figures such as the rhombus, trapezoid, parallelogram, etc (SOL5.13), so today students in Ms. Hall’s class created comics about these shapes using StoryboardThat. First we discussed the various shapes and brainstormed ideas for making a comic about them. I explained that the comic would…
1st Grade Earth & Sun Stories
First graders at Holladay Elementary have been learning about the Earth and the sun in science (SOL1.6), and they have been learning how to write complete sentences in English (SOL1.13d), so today they wrote Earth & Sun stories with Storymaker. Storymaker gives students a fun way to write and illustrate stories on the computer. First…
4th Grade Revolutionary War Comics
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been studying the Revolutionary War in Social Studies (VS.5), and they have been learning how to formulate questions about nonfiction text in Reading (SOL4.6b). So today students in Ms. White’s class created Revolutionary War comics and asked their classmates questions about them. We used StoryboardThat to make the comics…
