[LM_NET] Hit: Computer lessons for 3rd and 4th grade

[Laura Lott <libitz012@GMAIL.COM>]

Thanks to those who sent me information!

I start 3rd graders off with Power Points I always to Twas the Night Before
Christmas - I have each line done up on a slide with a Christmas
background.  They get to create their own poem - Twas the Night Before
Christmas and all through the _______.  They add what ever they want.  It
gets silly, but once everyone is finished (we don't worry about spelling at
this point) they get to present their Power Point.  I am sure there are
other poems you could do the same thing with.
For the 4th graders, we do a Power Point an Native American tribes.  We have
a Native American book series that are their guide for locating
information.  I give them a sheet of questions they should be looking up -
Where does your tribe live, What kinds of homes did your tribe live in, what
types of foods did your tribe hunt and gather, and what is your tribe like
now.  I create the basic Power Points slides with the titles, students then
fill in the text area with their information.  We then find pictures on the
web to pull into our Power Points and then we walk through how to change the
backgrounds design and colors.

 What I did was have my students do a trifold brochure on Social Studies
standards.  The students had to copy my document - They had to change the
paper set up to landscape, create 3 columns w/ a line in between as well as
insert pictures relating to the topic.  My students did a wonderful job.
They were truly excited in creating the brochure.  I did give them verbal
instructions on how to get to Microsoft Word, page set up, etc. I did put up
on the overhead how to move to the next column and how to insert the
pictures.  They were self motivated and all the students completed the
assignment.  Some of my students came after school to complete their
assignments.

This is as good a place to start as any.
http://www.growing.course.com/index.html



I have a computer teacher that has the kids make their own PowerPoint in
class. She sets up folders for each student and pulls all the possible
pictures and stores them on our network server so they don’t have to mess
with searching on line. They may do a “favorites” (team, class, food, song
etc) power point and in Fourth grade they do a Florida one.

Something I do in the media center is design some question and answers based
on our collection and using the Destiny Search. I have them search with
reading levels etc. and sometimes they need to find out how many titles an
author has, do we have a book on French cooking, are there any non-fiction
books on ….and so one. AT the third grade level I would do a long demo ,
have them do it in front of the class, then review the next time they come
in and turn them loose. I  let them work as pairs too.
-- 
Laura Lott
Library Media Specialist
Tallassee Elementary School
Tallassee, AL
libitz012@gmail.com

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