June

May

Fourth-grade students made a tour of Washington DC using Tour Builder by Google. They had so much fun looking inside the White House and adding three Historic landmarks. It can be difficult to not get distracted with this fun mapping tool.
Later, students will use Screencastify to make a screencast to instruct on how to use Tour Builder. A screencast is a video lesson that shows how to use a program on the computer. Still learning so much!

April - Scratch

Fourth graders are using coding to animate their names in Scratch. Creativity is so much fun!

March

Enjoying the variety and creativity of the students in the creation of their houses in SketchUp!

February

We are searching, traveling and then writing a story about our travels this month. Learning some real life connections as we search!

Search Engines

1) Introduce students to how a search engine works. Watch Common Craft Video

Another tutorial and Boolean Operators Video

2)Show students what a keyword is.

3)Show students where to see the number of search results and point out ads, and domains

4) Show and model to students how to cite sources for information and images

Searching for Information

Students will now take a Virtual Field Trip with Tour Builder. They will have to search for information to answer questions.

Storytelling with Information you Found

Students will create a Powtoons  story about some aspect of Peru that they found interesting from the information they found.

January

The fourth-grade students are learning about verifying the reliability of a website through the use of Brainpop. After watching a video, taking a quiz, reading two articles, taking another quiz and watching a video on how to read a web page they had to figure out if a website was a real one or fake one. Love watching them using their skills!

January

Fourth grade students are using Brainpop to teach themselves about website validity. In the world we now live, we need to question everything. This is certainly much different than when I was their ages.