TECHTIVITIESELAR & SOCIAL STUDIES

TECHTIVITIESELAR & SOCIAL STUDIES

EM- S I.S.D. Instructional TechnologySummer 2009

PowerPoint ActivitiesLandmarks Map

� Landmarks Map

� Go to www.mapquest.com, enter the name of your city & state, & click Get Map

� Click Print (found toward the top of the page)

� In the new window, scroll down to see your map

� Right-Click and choose Copy

� Open a blank Kidspiration (Elementary) or Inspiration (Middle School) document(You may also use PowerPoint for this activity, just substituting images from the Clipart Gallery)

� Click the Edit menu and choose to Paste

� Click away from the map (on a blank area of the page) to deselect the map

� Browse through the images by clicking the arrows at the top of the image pallete, you may also click to select a different library of images

� Search through the images for items that represent significant landmarks in the community (ex: Police/Fire Station, Library, School, Food Locations, Park, Home)

� Click and Drag desired images to appropriate places on the map

� Save and/or Print when finished!

PowerPoint ActivitiesAll About Me, Internet Scavenger Hunt

� Internet Scavenger Hunt (All About Me)

� Have students visit the sites below (and maybe a few more) and construct a PowerPoint about themselves.

� What Does My Name Mean? - Learn the etymology and history of your first name.http://www.behindthename.com/

� The Day I was Born – Have students find out what events occurred on their birthday. http://dmarie.com/timecap/

� How Old I REALLY Am – Use the website to calculate how many months, weeks, days or hours old you are.http://www.mathcats.com/explore/age/calculator.htmlhttp://www.mathcats.com/explore/age/calculator.html

� Students may also want to research where they were born (Country, State, City, etc)

� Once students have completed their research they can use the information collected to create a PowerPoint presentation.

PowerPoint ActivitiesVenn Diagram and Brochure

� Venn Diagram� Open a new blank PowerPoint

� Draw a large circle and then duplicate it

� Arrange the circles so that they are overlapping in the middle

� Double-click the top circle

� Change the transparency to about 50% and change the color if you want to

� Use the text box tool to add labels and to add information to the sides and center of the venn diagram

� Helpful Hint: Double-click the text box tool to keep it selected, and press the escape key to de-select itpress the escape key to de-select it

� Possible Ideas:� Presidents

� States

� Wars

� Authors

� Book Characters

� Creating a Tri-Fold Brochure� Turn on Rulers

� Add a line from top to bottom at 2 inches on the right and left

� Change weight of line to 50, and color to light gray

� Duplicate slide

� Create brochure:

� Slide 1 is the outside front of the brochure

� Slide 2 is the inside of the brochure

� Delete gray lines

� Print slide 1, re-insert paper, print slide 2

PowerPoint ActivitiesCrossword Puzzle

� Have students create their own crossword puzzles about historical figures/events, or book characters

� Go to http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

� There are many puzzle types available on this site, but to create a crossword puzzle, select the puzzle type Criss-Cross

� On the Puzzle Creation screen you will need to first enter a title for your crossword

� Leave the Step 2 and Step 3 selections alone (at least for the first time)

� Enter your crossword words and clues. You will need to enter the � Enter your crossword words and clues. You will need to enter the word followed by a space and the clue for the word. Enter your next clue on the next line (Example below)

GeorgeWashington Our first presidentAndrewJackson Known as Stonewall Jackson

� When your clues are all entered, click Create My Puzzle!

� Students can then Print and submit their crossword puzzle as an assignment, or even better, complete each others’ crossword puzzles before submitting them to you!

� Once you are more familiar with the website you may wish to alter the settings found in Step 2 & 3 when creating your puzzle.

PowerPoint ActivitiesVocabulary Peek

� Vocabulary Peek

� Open a Blank PowerPoint

� Choose the Title Only slide layout

� Slide 1: Click and type in the Title for your Vocabulary Peek

� Insert a New Slide, and choose the “Title Only” slide layout

� Click and type in your question, description or vocabulary word

� Repeat the 2 steps above for the remainder of the slides.

� Click your second slide from the Slide Sorter on the left side of your screen and press and hold the Control key on your keyboard and then press and release the letter “D”. Keep the control key held down then press and release the letter “D”. Keep the control key held down and continue to press and release the “D” key on your keyboard until you have a total of 12 slides.

� For slides 3-6 enter four more questions, descriptions, or vocabulary words

� Slide 7: The student should enter his/her name, date, etc.

� Slide 8: Type the answer to Slide 2

� Slide 9: Type the answer to Slide 3

� Slide 10: Type the answer to Slide 4

� Slide 11: Type the answer to Slide 5

� Slide 12: Type the answer to Slide 6

� Print as a handout with 6 slides per page

� On the first page, Cut around the sides and bottom of each slide to create flaps

� Glue the two pages together being sure not to put any glue on the flaps

� Extensions: Have students enter Clues for an event or person on slides 2-6, create blank slides for 7-11, and put the event or person described by the clues on slide 12. Print as a handout with 6 slides to a page, but cut only around slide 6 on the sides and bottom. Glue pages together for a Reveal!

PowerPoint Activitieswordle.com

� Open a new Microsoft Word document

� Have students type adjectives describing themselves, or other places/people/characters

� Also make sure and include your name or the place/person/character you are describing

� If a characteristic is very important, type it a couple of times

� Copy and paste the subject a few times (Wordle will look at the number of times a word is included and make words bigger that are written more)

� Copy your text

� Press the Ctrl and A key on your keyboard� Press the Ctrl and A key on your keyboardto select all, and then copy the selected text either by right clicking and choosing Copy, OR using the Ctrl and C keys on your keyboard

� Go to www.wurdle.net

� Click the Create link on the page

� Right-Click in the window, and choose Paste

� Click Go

� You should now see your word cloud, if you do not like the layout use the menus at the top to change your finished product

� To change the layout of the words go to the Layout menu and select a different choice (I like the Mostly Horizontal)

� Click the Color menu to change the selection of colors, or Font to choose a different font

� To shuffle the words around, but keep your current setting go to the Layout menu and choose Re-layout with current settings

� Click Print when done (Click to allow access if prompted, and select OK)

� Choose your Printer, or Print to a PDF

PowerPoint ActivitiesMini-Books

� Mini-Books

� Have your students open a blank PowerPoint

� On the first slide have the put the title of their book

� Have them complete their book by putting one sentence (or more) on each slide

� When they are done, print the slideshow as a Handout with 6 to a pageHandout with 6 to a page

� Cut out the slides from the page, leaving a little space to the left of every slide

� “Bind” the book with staples

� Extensions: Make a mini fact book, with one fact about their topic on each page

� Have each student complete one slide, and then combine them all and print as a handout to get a class book

PowerPoint ActivitiesBookmarks

� Bookmark� Have students write a short book review, or summary

of a book

� Open a blank PowerPoint slide

� Go to View and then Ruler, to turn the rulers on

� Use the Line tool to draw a line from top to bottom at the 2½ inch mark on the left side� Hint: Hold shift on your keyboard to keep the line straight

� Duplicate the line (ctrl and d) and position the new line at the 0 � Duplicate the line (ctrl and d) and position the new line at the 0 inch mark on the ruler

� Duplicate (ctrl and d) one more time

� Paste an image of the cover of the book in your first rectangle (Barnes and Noble’s website is a great resource)� www.bn.com: To copy an image from the website, right-click on the

image and go to copy. Go back to your PowerPoint slide and right-click, then go to paste

� Adjust the size of the image (if necessary) and position the image in the center of the first rectangle on your side towards the top

� Add a text box above the cover, and type the title and the author’s name

� Draw another text box below the cover

� Have your students write their brief summary (or book review) in the text box� You might need to make a few adjustments to the font and size of

the text to make all of the information fit into the first rectangle

PowerPoint ActivitiesBookmarks (cont’d)

� Click the title of the book, and then hold down the Ctrlkey on your keyboard.

� Keeping the Ctrl key held down, click with your mouse on the cover of the book and on the summary.

� Let go of the Ctrl key.

� Press Ctrl and D on your keyboard

� Press the up arrow on your keyboard 2 times, and then use your right arrow to move the bookmark to the correct place (the line to the right of the bookmark should be directly under the 0 on the ruler)should be directly under the 0 on the ruler)

� Hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard and then press Dtwo times

� You should now have a slide with 4 bookmarks on it. Have your students print their slide and cut the bookmarks apart.� Idea: Each student could keep one of their bookmarks, and then

donate their other 3 to the library. Then when students from the school check-out a book from the library they can get a bookmark that another student has created with a review of a book.

PowerPoint ActivitiesSummary Sleuth

� Summary Sleuth

� Have students write summary or report on a topic

� Open a blank PowerPoint slide

� Draw a text box at the top of the slide that is the width of the page

� Type the summary/report in the text box

� Have the text take up the entire slide (or as close as you can � Have the text take up the entire slide (or as close as you can get)

� Click the oval tool

� Draw a long narrow oval

� Double-click the oval and change the fill color to brown and change the line weight to 2 click OK

� Position your mouse over the bright green dot that is coming off of your oval

� Click and drag the oval to rotate it (to about a 45°angle)

� Click the oval tool again and draw a small circle

� Hint: Hold the shift key while drawing the “oval” to make a proportionate circle

PowerPoint ActivitiesSummary Sleuth (cont’d)

� Double-click the circle and change the fill color to brown and the line weight to 2, click OK

� Position the circle to where it is slightly over-lapping the rectangle at the top

� Select the oval tool one last time and draw a large circle

� Double-click the large circle, but this time keep the color blue. Change the weight to 2 and set the color blue. Change the weight to 2 and set the transparency at 20%. Click OK.

� You should now have what resembles a magnifying glass (you may have to move things around a little)

� Add a text box on the blue circle and type the main idea of the report

� You are now a Summary Sleuth!

Microsoft Word Activity

� TALL Tales

� Have students write their own Tall Tale, and then type it into Microsoft Word

� Format the page by clicking on File and then Page Setup

� Under the Margin tab set all margins (top, bottom, left, and right) to .5” then click OKbottom, left, and right) to .5” then click OK

� Select the text by choosing Edit and Select All

� Then select Format, Columns, and choose Three, then select OK

� Print the page, and then cut out the columns

� Tape the columns together to complete the TALL Tale

� Extension

� Use clipart to create a cowboy hat and boots

� Print the images, cut them out, and tape them to the top and bottom of your Tall Tale

Kidspiration & Inspiration Activities

� Autobiography� Have students (with help from their parents)

come up with something that they did for each year of their life

� In Kidspiration have them create a web with numbers for their age� For example if they are 7 years old, they need to use the

numbers 0 through 7. Next to the number 0 they put where they were born. For number 1, they put something that they they were born. For number 1, they put something that they did when they were 1 year old, and continue this for all years.

� To enter a new“bubble” click the add symbol button at the top of the page

� Helpful tip, once all information has been entered press ctrl + e on your keyboard to fit to screen

Kidspiration ActivitiesSuperGroupers

� Parts of Speech SuperGrouper� Open a new Kidspiration Picture

� Hit the eraser to clear the page

� Insert a box at the top of the screen

� In the box type your title (Parts of Speech)� You can change your font size and color at the

bottom of the screen

� Click once to select the title box and then go to � Click once to select the title box and then go to Teacher and Enable the Teacher Menu (if necessary). Then return to the Teacher menu, and select Locked Item.� Repeat the step above for any item that a

student should not move on the page� If you ever need to make changes to an item that

you’ve locked, select the item and go to Teacherand select Locked Item. This will toggle the lock off.

� Click the SuperGrouper tool at the top of the page, and select a shape� You can change the color of the background and

lines at the bottom of the window

� Lock the SuperGrouper

Kidspiration ActivitiesSuperGroupers (Cont’d)

� Repeat the 2 steps above two more times so that you have a total of 3 SuperGroupers on your page

� Put another rectangle at the bottom of the page, and drag it to the full width then lock it

� Add an oval for each word that you want the students to sort, and place them in the rectangle at the bottom of the page

Kidspiration ActivitiesOther Activity Ideas

� SuperGrouper Ideas� Words than begin with different letters

� Synonyms and Antonyms

� Blends

� Real and Make Believe

� Present/Past/Future Tense

� Other Kidspiration Activities� Create a Story Web� Create a Story Web

� The title of the book in the center, and 3-4 characters coming from the center

� Then around each character the students needs to put 2-3 traits of that character

� Create a Story Board

� Sequencing, use the arrows to connect one event to the next

� As a teacher created activity the teacher can place 5 sentences (each in their own box) in a random order

� The students then open the file and must put the sentences in the correct sequence

� Debating an Issue

� Use Kidspiration to argue two sides of an issue. Place the topic in the middle, and the arguments on either side of the issue. Sample Topics: Gum chewing should be allowed in class, Kids should shoose their own bed time, There should be no speed limit…

ELAR Websites

� www.google.com – Use the Google Dictionary by typing- define:

word

� www.readwritethink.org

� Click “Student Materials”

� www.monsterexchange.org

� Students draw “monsters” and post directions on how to draw the monster they created

� Classes are paired together from all over the world� Classes are paired together from all over the world

� Students from each class follow the directions left by their partner student to create their monster

� To sign up for account, go to the webpage and click Join from the center section of the page

� http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/

� http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/main

� http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx

� http://www.storylineonline.net/

� http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html

� http://jc-schools.net/PPTs-la.html

Social Studies Websites

� http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

� Some basics of US Government at a student level can be found here

� http://users.netrover.com/~kingskids/state/introswf.htmhttp://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

� Test your geographical skills on this site with varied locations and difficulty levels

� www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline

� Use this site to create your own timeline

� www.presidentialtimeline.org

� This site has an interactive timeline of the Presidents of the twentieth century. It also includes multimedia clips from Presidents all the way back to Franklin D. Roosevelt

� http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq

� http://jc-schools.net/PPTs-socst.html