Second graders in our district study Early American Life. We travel to the Remick Farm Museum as a culminating activity. Students learn first hand about cooking, lighting, farming, wool, going to school, and medicine in the early days of America.
I break my students into groups and assign them each an area to become an expert on while at the museum. That group needs to use the digital cameras to take pictures and collect detailed information that supports their topic. In the days following the trip, students choose a few of their pictures to upload into a PowerPoint slide and they write a script containing the information they learned about their topic. They record themselves and add that to their slide. I put all of the slides together into one PowerPoint. This year we showed our PowerPoint during the All School Meeting we have once a month in the gym.
Sharing their work with the whole school was very exciting for the students. It gave the younger students a look at what they might do when they are in second grade. We do need to get better speakers for this kind of presentation. It was very hard to hear in the back of the gym with the little plug in speakers we usually use. We are now a Google Apps school so I will try this project using the Google Presentation tool this year. I was not able to keep the sound as I moved a PowerPoint to a Google Site.
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