Stop Motion, Comics, & Screencasting

We have been busy at school learning about new people, technology and presenting our findings in class. We wrapped up two research projects this past week. The first involved learning about others. Our focus was on Black History and Women's History month. The second project for some classes involved research on a cyber savvy topic like password and privacy, online gaming, drones, social media and mental health and more. Each project entailed 3 components, a research segment including citing sources, building an artifact to share their findings, and presenting their information to educate others about their topics. 

Check out these awesome stop motion videos made with Google Slides to learn about folks students studied in class. Some links are only accessible using student accounts as they are not all original works. Students will need to login to view these artifacts. 

Vernice Armour    Jackie Robinson (click to advance)    Ruby Bridges    

(click play for these) Mae Jemison      Florence Griffith Joyner

Other works from this past week included some How To videos for various tools and features in some of our favorite applications. Here is one showing you how to create a Gradient Background with Slides They are adorable! The videos and the kids. :)

Black History & Women's History Month

After learning new tools and features in Google Slides to create an avatar of themselves, students were tasked with creating a new avatar to demonstrate their mastery of these skills. This project also entailed, learning about a famous person of color recognized for making contributions to our world. As it turns out the project continued into March so we also emphasized Women's History month as well. Students have finished making digital avatars and are now building presentations to show what they learned about their selected person. 

They started by choosing someone from our working list. New additions have been added per student and teacher requests. If someone is missing, use the link on the last slide to tell me more about them.

You too will be impressed by the talent and creativity of these fifth and sixth graders when you view their creations. Show them a few tools and the sky's the limit. See their amazing work, all original, that they made with Google Slides. Drawings were made using photographs as a guide to build these masterpieces. 

Next up, students have selected from a few options to use these creations in a presentation to show us what their research taught them. Students can create a comic or stop motion video with Google Slides, or they can share their learning with Scratch.

Some digital drawings are still being added. See if you can find the following works. There were some favorites so you may find some folks on more than one slide. 

Rhiannon Giddens	Jackie Robinson	Mae Jemison
Sam Cooke	Michelle Obama	Katherine Johnson
Vernice Armour	Simon Biles	Hank Aaron
Mohammed Ali	Eugene Goodman	Ruby Bridges
Will Smith	Ella Fitzgerald	Crispus Attucks
Madam C. J. Walker	Amanda Gorman	Vashti Harrison
Janet Jackson	Kimberly Bryant	Augusta Savage
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.	Lebron James	Elizabeth Freeman
Jaleel White	Michael Jordan	MLK Jr.
Florence Griffith Joyner	Serena Williams	Alice Walker
Marcelite J. Harris	Condoleezza Rice

Jackie Robinson & Michelle Obama were the most popular! 

Can you find all of them?