My students have been
working so hard the last couple weeks on their animal reports! Since the
beginning of the school year we have been writing explanatory paragraphs and
essays. As our culminating project before moving on (for now) to opinion
writing, we wrote animal reports!
The writing process was fairly lengthy, and this was our
first essay that we typed. I wanted something to reward the students with and a
way they could have fun with this project so I had them make slide shows!
All the students have a school gmail account. They used
their gmail accounts to type their essay on google docs and made their slide
shows on google slides. It worked wonderfully! They loved being able to pick
out the most interesting parts of their essays and put those facts on slides
complete with interesting pictures! It was fun for my more advanced students to
figure out how to use the transitions, themes, and other attributes you can
find on google slides. My only requirement was 10 slides!
To present our projects we put on a Class Animal Show! Other
classes from the school, parents, and administration signed up for a time to
come check out our show. We put all of
our desks around the outside of the room. On their desk I had them put their
typed essay on one side and had a chrome book (our school is lucky to have 2
chrome carts we share between grades) with their slide show on the other side.
As students and parents came through students presented their essay and slide
show to them. We were set up for about 2 hours and the students had an absolute
blast!
