Allow students to come up with a new
use for an common object they already use.
Materials:
a variety of different objects Adobe
Photoshop, Netscape Composer a disk per child digital cameras
process:
• have about 15 or so objects pre
selected out on the floor for the students to see.
• place the students into groups of
about 3 or 4.
• have each group choose which object
they would like to use for the project.
• once every group has an object allow
them to recall what the object is currently used for and to brainstorm
together ideas in which they could use the object in another way.
• have each group then take a digital
camera and take pictures of their object, with or without them.
• explain once they return that they
will now write a newspaper article explaining their new invention to others
in the community on their own.
• students would then place the pictures
from Adobe Photoshop into the article itself.
• students will be creating a web
page using the Netscape Composer. Have the students also include their
email address for feedback from you.
Suggestions: Something may occur with
your school not having enough computers for every child and therefore you
could have the article and web page be done as a group rather than on an
individual basis.
Grading:
Rough draft:
was the article creative? Was it in
newspaper format? Did it explain the invention in detail? Was it informative,
interesting, and convincing enough to buy the product?
Final draft:
was it placed onto the web page? Was
it completed on time? Was it grammatically correct? Was it easy to understand
and read?
Web page:
was it done correctly? Did the links
work? Did it contain all the components it was supposed to? Were the pictures
the right size?
Competencies:
Language
arts: competency goal 3
Information
skills: competency goal 3 and 5
Computer
skills: competency goal 1, 2, and 3