Book Appreciation Using a Video Response Tool
This project was done by Geneviève Goupil from CSDM with her regular grade 6 students.
After reading the novel "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" in class as a group, students learn how to formulate their opinion and appreciation through various activities. In the final task, they answer questions from their teacher via a video response tool to share their opinion and appreciation of the book.
The video response tool she used will become unavailable. Another tool that can be used is Flipgrid.
Book Appreciation Using Video Response - Overview
Monsters at School Project
A collaboration between elementary and secondary students.
Elementary students drew and described a monster.
Secondary students transformed their monster into a puppet monster and wrote a story about a situation that could happen in high school. This story was put into an online book in Book Creator with actions that the code in the Micro:bit represented.
Secondary students visited the elementary students and presented the puppet monsters with the Micro:bit. It was a great way to introduce the topic of going to high school.
What an experience for all these students!
Activity Sheet - Monsters At School (Secondary)
Monsters at School Workshop Presentation
Guide: Monsters At School Project - Secondary
Guide: Monsters At School - Elementary
Activity Sheet - Monsters At School (Elementary)
Monsters At School Project Elementary Handout
Once Upon a Time - Writing and Producing an Animated Story
This project was created by Joey Simard-Bolduc from the CSS de Portneuf.
Through the exploration of the characteristics of a fairy tales, students learn the steps of a narrative story: setup, conflict, challenges, climax and resolution.
Students write a narrative story and animate it with the Toontastic 3D app (Android), Scratch, Scratch Jr or other animation tools.
(optional) Students can also use Ozobots to demonstrate their understanding by planning a sequence of actions that represent the important events of a chosen story.
Use the Overview to view the sequence and the Presentation in class with students. Use the links in the 2 documents to access student documents.
Adapt all the documents to your needs.
*Note: Toontastic was used in the original project but it is not available in the Apple App Store anymore. We added suggestions in order to use the sequence with other digital tools.
Once Upon a Time - TG - Animated Stories
Once Upon a Time - Overview
A Survivor’s Journal
In this learning situation, we want to make students aware of different survival stories that have occurred in real life. They will develop empathy while reacting to different situations in authentic contexts. Throughout the project, they will enhance their reflective thinking and communication skills.
In team, students will write a survival story (journal/diary) where they have to imagine themselves having gone through a difficult survival situation. Their survival instincts, emotions and feelings will be portrayed as well as the sequence of events and the solutions to the problems encountered.
In the clip, you will see students recording their journal using the online tool Recap. Since, it as shut down, you could do this project with any video recording tool: camera app on a tablet, Flipgrid(similar to Recap), etc.
SB - Survivor’s Journal
Example for Students
Project Overview
C1 Rubric
Creating an Interactive Guide / Poster Using Media Tools
This Learning and Evaluation Situation was created by Anne-Marie Morin from the CSBE in 2018-2019.
Anne-Marie Morin used the theme of ninjas to have students reflect upon behaviours and attitudes to adopt in their everyday life so they can communicate effectively and apply them at school, at home, or in the daily activities. As a final task, students have to write a text and produce a poster explaining how to be a good ninja.
In this LES called "A Guide to Being a Good Ninja", you will find:
Activity sheet with general information about the project
Teacher Guide Presentation (Google Slide)
Stations with activities from the LES (can be used as stations or as sequential activities)
Activity Sheet: A Guide to Being a Good Ninja
A Guide to Being a Good Ninja: Teacher Guide
A Guide to Being a Good Ninja: Stations Description
A Guide to Being a Good Ninja- Student Booklet.docx
