VSC? reVitalize and Stimulate Creativity

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VSC? reVitalize and Stimulate Creativity

• by Tracy Slezak and Martha Barwick
• http//nets-implementation.iste.wikispaces.net/

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Our Purpose

• Discover practical tools that will promote
  creativity and innovation within your elementary
  classrooms as you implement the Voluntary State
  Curriculum.  Examples and student work will be
  shared that will enable your students to
  demonstrate creative thinking, construct
  knowledge, and develop innovative products and
  processes using technology (NETS-S 1).

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ReadWriteThink

• Book Cover Creator
• VSC Grade 5 ELA 3A3b Identify and explain the
  events of the plot
• VSC Grade 3 ELA 4A2c Compose to inform using
  summary and selection of major points and
  examples to support a main idea

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ReadWriteThink

• Character Trading Cards
• VSC Grade 3 ELA 3A3d Identify and analyze
  characters

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ReadWriteThink

• DoodleSplash
• VSC Grade 3 ELA 3A3 Use elements of narrative
  texts to facilitate understanding

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ReadWriteThink

• Fact Fragment Frenzy
• VSC Grade 5 ELA 4A7c Select appropriate
  information for note taking and organizing
  information

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Poetry

• Digital Photos and PowerPoint 
• VSC Grade 4 ELA 4A2b Describe in prose and
  poetry by using purposeful imagery and sensory
  details with active verbs and colorful adjectives
  
• ReadWriteThink
• Shape Poems
• Diamante Poem
• Acrostic Poem

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Poetry

• Revolutionary War Acrostic
• VSC Grade 5 ELA 4A7 Locate, retrieve, and use
  information from various sources to accomplish a
  purpose
• VSC Grade 5 ELA 2A2 Develop and apply
  comprehension skills by reading a variety of
  self-selected and assigned print and non-print
  informational texts, including electronic media
• VSC Grade 5 1A3 Social Studies Analyze how
  individuals' roles and perspectives shape the
  American political system

Betsy Ross
James Madison
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VP for the United States of
merica. Madison tried and tried, and he finally
went
own in history as the 4th President. He was
definitely
MADISON
mportant to the history of our
tates. He had a leading role in the passage of
the Bill
f Rights. James Madison was
ever inadequate.
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orn on New years day 1752 . Her husband died from
xploded Gun powder. She made
he first flag and she also
ewed more than one flag.
Betsy Ross
ou can see the original flag in Fort McHenry her
eal name is Elizabeth Griscom
f all the children she was the 8th child of a
devout Quaker couple
he changed the six sided stars to five sided, her
second husband was captured by the British
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Black-Eyed Susan Collaboration

• Riddles Imagination Cubed
•   VSC Grade 4 ELA 4A2b Describe in prose and
  poetry by using purposeful imagery and sensory
  details with active verbs and colorful adjectives
  
• Intel Education Visual Ranking Tool
• VSC Grade 5 ELA 3A3b Listen to critically,
  read, and discuss a variety of literary forms and
  genres
• To learn more about Black-eyed Susan Book Awards

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Animal Reports

• Animal Reports With Text Features
• Letterpop.com
• VSC Grade 4 ELA 2A2
• Use print features such as large bold print, font
  size/type, italics, colored print, quotation
  marks, underlining, and other print features
  encountered in informational texts
• Use graphic aids such as illustrations and
  pictures, photographs, drawings, sketches,
  cartoons, maps (key, scale, legend, graphs,
  charts/tables, and diagrams, other graphic aids
  encountered in informational texts
• Animal Reports and Discovery Education Streaming
• VSC Grade 4 ELA 4A2 Compose oral, written, and
  visual presentations that express personal ideas,
  inform, and persuade

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Informational Text

• How To Paragraph
• VSC Grade 4 ELA 4A2c Compose to inform using a
  structure with a clear beginning, middle, and end
  and a selection of major points, examples, and
  facts to support a main idea

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Informational Text

• Publisher Travel Brochure
• VSC Grade 4 ELA 4A2c Compose to inform using a
  structure with a clear beginning, middle, and end
  and a selection of major points, examples, and
  facts to support a main idea
• VSC Grade 4 ELA 4A2d Compose to persuade using
  significant reasons and relevant support Agree
  or disagree with an idea and generate convincing
  reasons with relevant support
• Information Source Time For Kids Go Places

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Persuasive Writing

• Earth Day T Shirts
• VSC Grade 4 ELA 4A2d Compose to persuade using
  significant reasons and relevant support Agree
  or disagree with an idea and generate convincing
  reasons with relevant support

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Kid Pix

• Kid Pix Story Pyramids
• VSC Grade 3 ELA 3A3b Identify and
• explain the elements of a story
• Kid Pix Story Illustrations
• VSC Grade 1 ELA 3A3c Use elements of narrative
  texts to facilitate understanding - Sequence the
  important events

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Mapping in Excel

• A Community Map
• VSC Grade 4 Math 1C1 Locate points on a number
  line and in a coordinate grid

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Quilts

• Pathways to Freedom on Thinkport
• VSC Grade 4 Math 4E. Transformations
• Indicator 1 Analyze a transformation
• Objective Identify and describe the results of
  translations, reflections, and rotations,
  Assessment limit Use a horizontal line
  translation, reflection over a vertical line, or
  rotation of 90 clockwise around a given point of
  a geometric figure or picture

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Symmetry
Pattern Maker  VSC Grade 3 1A2
Identify, describe, extend, and create
non-numeric growing or repeating patterns
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Math WebQuest

• Natural Wonders of the World
• Codes and Ciphers
• VSC Grade 3 7C1 Present mathematical ideas
  using words, symbols, visual displays, or
  technology
• VSC Grade 3 7D1c Identify mathematical concepts
  in relationship to life

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Using Video to Communicate

• Creating Science Movies
• VSC Grade 4 Science 1C1 Recognize that clear
  communication is an essential part of doing
  science because it enables scientists to inform
  others about their work, expose their ideas to
  criticism by other scientists, and stay informed
  about scientific discoveries around the world.
• VSC Grade 4 ELA 7A Use organization and delivery
  strategies at an appropriate level
• Demonstrate appropriate volume, articulation,
  enunciation, intonation, pacing, timing, and
  stress
• Demonstrate appropriate timing
• Use appropriate non-verbal techniques to enhance
  communications

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Publishing

• AudioCastsReader's Theater, Poetry,
  Student Comments, Math Models 
• VSC Grade 4 ELA Standard 7.0 Speaking Student
  will communicate effectively in a variety of
  situations with different audiences, purposes,
  and formats.
• A. 1. Use organization and delivery strategies
  at an appropriate level.
• Objectives
• Demonstrate appropriate volume, articulation,
  enunciation, intonation, pacing, timing, and
  stress
• Demonstrate appropriate timing, fluency, pacing,
  rate
• Resources
• www.audcity.com 
• http//www.storylineonline.net/  
• http//www.cueprompter.com/  
• http//www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/   
• http//learninginhand.com/podcasting/index.html 
• PhotoStory Field Trip

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ISTE NETSS Implementation

• Find our presentation, discuss it with us, and
  add your own creative ideas at http//nets-impleme
  ntation.iste.wikispaces.net/
• Contact us at
• Martha Barwick Tracy Slezak
• Library Media Specialist Fourth Grade Teacher
• Bakerfield Elementary Fountain Green Elementary
• martha.barwick_at_hcps.org tracy.slezak_at_hcps.org