Going cross curricular

Can you find your house?

A good first step for everyone...

Personal Narratives (on Google Earth)

• Have students type out personal narratives/short stories using Google Docs. 

• Copy and paste those paragraphs onto a new Google Site. 

• Have students find the locations/settings of their Personal Narratives on Google Maps/Street View. 

• Click to view an example written by one of my fifth graders

Google Lit Trips

• Pre-made stories/collections/projects about children's/young adult books.  

• Sign up for free at googlelittrips.org/

• This will save you a TON of time as you start to plan for this upcoming school year!  

• Give Jerome a Follow on Twitter.  He's a retired teacher who devotes all of his time to this site. 

Scale Model of the Solar System

• Using different digital tools, have the students recreate a scale model of the Solar System using everyday objects. 

• Here's a link to the assignment I gave my class (click)

• Here's a link to the questions they had to answer once the assignment was completed (click)

• We watched this video for inspiration for our projects (click). 

• Example of a Finished Student Project

Writing Prompt

• Go to Earth View, spin it, and drop Pegman at a random location. 

• Elementary -- Write a quick 5 sentence story with this location as the setting. Feel free to get create and use more than one photosphere if you'd like!   Make sure to paste the link to your photosphere on your document.

• Open up the document to the right and press File --> Make a Copy and start writing.