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Word Processor (Word)
- Create FAQ
- Venn
Diagram
- Generic
graphic organizers
- Graphic
Organizer Response forms
- Structured
writing activities http://www.cheney268.com/integration/Resources.htm
- Create
“baseball cards” for the current topic
- Create
a parody of a children’s book or nursery rhyme
- Timeline
– create a table and selectively turn the lines off.
- Give
students a poorly written paragraph and have them revise it
- Internet Hot list
- Web page
- Brochures
- Acrostic
- Use
comment feature to provide feedback
- Create
educational plaques for a “museum” (Example)
- Write
“articles” for a magazine in the subject area of research
- Write
historical diaries/ journals
- Create
historical newspaper with articles explaining “current” events
- Write
historical fiction by
injecting self in history (i.e. Titanic)
- Write
historically accurate autobiographies of historical people
- Keep
writing / reflection journals
- “Wanted
Poster" for people or other topics (i.e. chemical elements)
- Write
“Letters to the Editor” opposing or supporting historical or current
events
- Artful
Illustrator – describe a scene from a narrative and then use Paint to
illustrate it.
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Spreadsheet (Excel)
- Track
school sales of (pop, book fair, lunches)
- Track
average daily/weekly temperature here and in ________
- Daily
high/low temperature or barometric pressure
- Classroom’s
favorite _______ (book, type of book, candy bar, TV show, author, pets)
- Students’
eye/hair color
- If I
have a saving account with $xxx. that earns x% interest per year, how
much will I have at the end of xxx years?
- Find
average of ________
- Convert
Metric to standard equivalents
- Figure
cost of an apartment
- Track
health/fitness information
- Decision making grid
- Collect
data (population growth, mortality rate, per capital income) from census
records or other resources and make predictions about future trends
- Number
and put historical or story events in chronological order
- Compare
land area and population of different countries / states and calculate
population density and then draw conclusions and creating graphs
- Track
daily calorie intake and activity levels and graph
- Track
heart rate during different activities and graph
- Backgrounds with Comments
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Presentation Software (PowerPoint)
- Hidden
Slides (Example
–save & open)
- Thematic
Slide Show
- Talking
storybooks
- Book
talks
- Alphabet
books
- Review
activities for students (label graphics or answer questions)
- Sequencing
(add graphics & explain sequence)
- Make
your own stories (cause & effect)
- Guided
Learning Session (Parts of a book) – with audio
- Timed
& Untimed Skill reviews (spelling words, Numbers, Math Facts) – with
audio
- Student-created
Open House/ Presentations
- State
or Country Travel Guide, presenting historical, geographical, etc.
features
- Create
a “Day in the life of ….” for historical figures
or groups (i.e. women nurses in the Civil War)
- Presentations
of story elements (characters, cause & effect, problem / resolution)
- Presentations
of different aspects of daily
- Create
a branching story with an introduction and two possible solutions so the
reader can select the option desired
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- Create
flashcards
- Planet
database
- Categorize
food into different types
- Kansas
Landmarks database
- Explorers
to America
database
- New
vocabulary database
- World
countries database
- U.S.
States database
- Biomes
& Animals that live in that biome
- School
classroom database
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Internet
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- Graphic
Organizers
- Structured
Writing (ISTB book – Structured
Writing by Haynes & McMurdo)
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Web Page
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Video Production
- Create video to go with a current song
- Daily announcements
- “A Day in the Life of . . . “
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Graphic/Paint/Draw
- Draw
self-portrait and describe
- Scan
a picture of the student and then have them draw an animal that best
matches their personality. Put the
scanned picture and the drawn animal into a single document. If a morph program is available, morph
the picture into the animal drawing
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