The 4th grade student’s in Ms. Edgerton’s class at Baker have been studying food chains/webs.  As a research activity, each student was assigned a different habitat (grasslands, ocean, desert, etc.)  The librarian pulled some books and web resources to help them find the information they needed on food chains in that habitat.  While researching, the student’s used this pre-created template on Pixie to plan out their ideas:

Once their planning sheet was completed, the student were asked to open up the Pixie slide of their habitat.  The teacher and I had already created Pixie slides in which we inserted a picture of each habitat and glued it to the background.  Then when the students added their pictures, arrows, and text, it would show up right on top of the habitat photo.  In Pixie, the students clicked on stickers and searched for the name of the animal, plant, or decomposer they were looking for.  Pixie searches the clip art folder, pics4learning, and iPhoto to find pictures for the students.  By clicking and dragging they can easily add the living things to their slide.  The shape tool allows them to draw arrows to show the flow of energy through the food chain/web.  Here’s an example of the finished product: