A few of our classes has some time to create some Thanksgiving projects. Both first grade classes listened to the story, Balloons Over Broadway about how the balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade came to be. They used a new app, Tayasui Sketches School, to draw their own balloon. The students then uploaded their drawings to Seesaw where they could record why their balloon should be in the parade.
The third graders created acrostic poems using PicCollage EDU. They searched for images to spell out the word Thankful and then completed their poems. The students were also able to choose a background and images to complete their project.
I hope that everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving. We all have so much to be thankful for.
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Over the last week, our first through third-grade students began their first digital citizenship lesson for the year. We follow a curriculum from Common Sense Education that teaches topics of media balance & well-being, privacy & security, digital footprint & identity, relationships & communication, cyberbullying & hate speech, and news & media literacy. This curriculum is taught several times a year all the way through eighth grade. Our first graders learned about their digital trail and how everything that they do online can leave behind a trail for others to find. We discussed the difference between personal information (hobbies, first name, interests, favorite things) and private information (full name, address, phone number, age, birthday, school/team name) and how personal information is ok to share but private information is never ok to share. For some tips about digital footprints and identity, see the pdf below.
Our second graders focused on communication and creating norms for being online. The students discussed how people should act while they are online and what to do if they found that people weren't following these norms. In Seesaw, the students had to write one norm that they would follow online. We then opened up the Seesaw blog, talked about the norms for using the blog and then allowed the students to practice the norms they came up with. For some tips to guide your student, see the pdf below.
Finally, our third graders focused on being responsible digital citizens and how what they do in life, both in person and online, can affect themselves, their community, and the world. While practicing using the zoom feature in Seesaw, the student completed an activity where they had to determine how their actions could affect the world around them. The students did a great job with this and some of the questions were not easy to figure out. You can find some tips as well as an activity you can do with your family in the pdf below. |
AuthorMs. Sowa is the technology coach for Pre-School through Third Grade Archives
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