Animoto allows teachers and students to combine information, pictures, music, and videos into one project. This educational tool is a great way to engage students in the learning process. Animoto is very user friendly for teachers as well as students.
This Animoto Project was created to teach my first graders how to "Eat a Rainbow" of healthy foods. For the first part of the project, the children will work in groups of four to plan a weeks worth of fruits and vegetables to eat. For every day of the week, the groups will find a fruit or vegetable to represent each color of the rainbow. Planning sheets will be provided for each group. A sample of the planning sheet is in the video project.
The final part of the Animoto project was created with my current group of first graders. I chose to use only their voices for privacy reasons. The children worked in teams to create fruits and vegetables out of paper to represent the colors of the rainbow. Then the groups displayed their art work in a rainbow pattern on our carpet. The idea behind this part of the video project centers around the hope that as a first grade, the children could actually plant a rainbow garden of food to tend and harvest during part of the school year.
Please click on the link below to view the full Animoto project.
http://animoto.com/play/jXyibwxUj1tEz0d112oYjg
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Educational Value of Wordle
Displaying information in a word cloud format provides a fun visual for students to "see their thoughts" on paper. The number of times the words appear represents the number of times the same answer was given. Printing and posting student generated words on paper around the classroom also creates a specific "word wall" resource for children to use while learning about a particular unit or subject. In this case, my students will have their "healthy" words to reference throughout our Nutrition unit.
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