Tag: 3rd Grade

Posted in Projects, Roanoke County Schools, social studies

Famous People Glogs

Posted on by Tina Coffey

Mrs. McGee’s class has been working hard on Glog using Glogster EDU to demonstrate their understanding of the famous people they have studied.  After a quick tutorial on how to use the programs, Mrs. McGee and her students were off and running.  Here are a few examples of their hard work.  Click on the top right corner icon to see them full size.
http://edu.glogengine.com/view/465JqtEmfYQjM34LaCMv:6ksobb0s6ukrk6mvn7toia0http://edu.glogengine.com/view/hmZbGuuCruVtV4eOTWe0:6ksahe1s980frfndq68fka0http://edu.glogengine.com/view/n388nyskdPYFyxWvYd1Y:6kslld9brbc8vjokp53t0a0http://edu.glogengine.com/view/n388nyskdPYFyxWvYd1Y:6ksobb36egu7sn53mfdpba0

You can see all the class’ glogs on this wiki: McGee’s Class

Posted in Projects, Roanoke County Schools, Writing

Sock Worms, Banana Split Milkshakes, and Homemade Pillows!

Posted on by Tina Coffey

Need to know how to create a sock worm? Or banana split milkshakes? What about a pillow, potato woman, hamburger, or a friendship bracelet. Students in Mrs. Devlin’s class created videos to show you how!

In this project, they wrote step by step directions on storyboards, took pictures with digital camearas, and used photostory to record and create digital stories with step by step directions

.Sockworm Taking Pictures Recording

Take a look a few examples below, and check out all their stories on Mrs. Devlin’s Class wiki!

Posted in Excel, Math, Projects, Roanoke County Schools

Stacking Oreos! (and graphing them too)

Posted on by Tina Coffey

OreosA few weeks ago, students at Oak Grove and Clearbrook went Oreo crazy!  They brought in packages of the yummy cookies and tried to stack the tallest towers.  But it wasn’t just for fun…it was part of a global project with students all over the world participating!  You can learn more about the Oreo Project on Jen Wagner’s website.  This was the 12th year of the project, and this time 15,501 students participated from 719 different classes. 

 

 

 

IMG_0803After stacking oreos, different grade levels participated in different activities with the oreos, from science to math to writing.  Many classes created Excel Spreadsheets showing the average cookie stack, or the mode, median, mean, and range of the stacks.  They even used excel formulas for their calculations!  

 

 

 

 A few examples of their spreadsheets are shown below!

Mrs. Beir’s Class (Clearbrook — 3rd Grade)

http://www.box.net/embed/jbvts7i9vv0drnk.swf

Mrs. Hushour’s Class (Clearbrook — 3rd Grade)

http://www.box.net/embed/8uxgefi4fhqylcz.swf

Mrs. Bralley’s Class (Oak Grove — 3rd Grade)

http://www.box.net/embed/ffvtfngm36n4soa.swf
 

Mrs. Sharp’s Block 1 Class (Oak Grove — 5th Grade)

 http://www.box.net/embed/m0584jah192g8es.swf

 

Mrs. Sharp’s Block 2 Class (Oak Grove — 5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/20veykortu0qnde.swf

 

Mrs. Mortez’s Block 1 Class (Oak Grove –5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/5dzx3hzj54xmkji.swf

Mrs. Mortez’s Block 2 Class (Oak Grove — 5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/ufijsvnfudk2xjp.swf

Mrs. Grave’s Class (Clearbrook — 5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/x5aloxuaova6kua.swf

Mrs. Hudson’s Class (Clearbrook — 5th Grade)
http://www.box.net/embed/v8rmj830gq6q0jo.swf

Posted in digital storytelling, Field Trips, iPod Touch, Projects, Roanoke County Schools, Video

StoryRobe Digital Stories by Third Graders

Posted on by Tina Coffey

Storyrobe AppThird Graders went on a trip to Apple Ridge farms this month.  Despite camera difficulties, they were able to get enough photos to use for digital stories!  The day after the field trips, we loaded the pictures into the iPod Touches, grabbed some microphones, and had students quickly create a “What we learned videos” using the StoryRobe App. Here are all their stories, together in one video.  Check it out: