http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/
karen/BTSboogie.html
This assignment
asks the students to use their imagination and create an invention. They
will write a news article about their invention and take pictures using
a digital camera to put on a web page. This activity is designed
for a fifth grade classroom.
The Process:
~Explain to the class they are going
to make a invention from the materials provided. This should be a box of
"junk" that includes interesting items for them to chose from. For example,
an old bicycle wheel or old egg beaters...ANYTHING!
~Have the class get into groups
and brainstorm about ways their item can become an invention.
~After they have created an invention,
tell them to individually write a short news article about their invention.
(There is a detailed example on the example page).
~Have them take pictures with their
invention using a digital camera.
Go
to the Adobe Photoshop link below for help resizing images
~They will need to save these images
onto a floppy disk, then transfer them onto a zip disk.
~It is now time to create a web
page.
Go
to the Navigator link below to help you create the web page
~The web page should include their
newsletter about their invention (along with a picture) and then at least
one link that will explain this activity to other students.
~ Have the students e-mail you a quick note about
their progress on the web page, after they write the news article.
Materials needed:
Hints for using Netscape Navigator to create web pages.
Hints
for using Adobe Photoshop to resize images.
~Box of a variety of "junk" that the children can use
to create their invention
~digital camera
~Zip disk to save the pictures
~Equal access to a computer
Objectives that this lesson meets
for the fifth grade Standard Course of Study include:
Language Arts Curriculum
- 1.01, 1.04, 4.08, 4.09, 4.10, 5.01, 5.07, and 5.08
Information Skills Curriculum
- 4.09, 4.10, 5.02, 5.04, and 5.05
Computer Skills Curriculum
- 2.4 and 3.7
Grading
Rubric
| Assignment | Beginning
1 point |
Developing
2points |
Accomplished
3 points |
Excellent
4 points |
Score |
| Worked Cooperatively | None of the time | Some of the time | Most of the time | All of the time | |
| Use class time wisely | None of the time | Some of the time | Most of the time | All of the time | |
| News Article | Lots of spelling or grammatical errors, vague explanation of invention and uses, no pictures from digital camera | Some spelling and grammatical errors, explanation of invention and uses but not creative or detailed, one picture from digital camera | Few spelling and grammatical errors, good, creative explanation of invention and its uses, two pictures from the digital camera | No spelling or grammatical errors, contains creative, detailed explanation of invention and its uses, two pictures from digital camera | |
| Technology Requirements | No links, no digital images present | No links, one digital image present | Link works on web page and two digital images are present | More than one link works on the web page, e-mail function works on web page, two digital images are present and clear. |
| Master Page | Teacher Page | Student Page | Example Page |