Ms. Wilbourne & Ms. Beith required their students to focus on non-fiction reading outside of class this year. As a culminating project, they completed two different assignments.
Ms. Wilbourne had her students use their non-fiction reading and a current event in the news to create their own newspaper article. These articles were turned into a webpage and combined to make a class newspaper website.
Here is the finished product for G Block
Behind the News Rubric
Ms. Beith did a similar assignment with students using their non-fiction to create a product that gave the facts of their reading, then moved through the lower to higher level thinking of Blooms taxonomy.
Student examples to come…
Senorita Clavijo’s class used comic life to show their vocabulary knowledge of family and relatives. Students created comics using only Spanish language and pictures of their family members to create a story to show their understanding.
Family Comic Project Rubric
The 7th grade social studies classes created vodcasts using GarageBand to mimic radio broadcasts of the 1920’s. They have taken a standard “podcast” and turned it into a “vodcast” or “enhanced podcast” by adding images.
Student Outline
Directions & Rubric
Ms. Walsh’s class used comic life to create advertisements for their inauguration boxed lunch specials & for their Treasure Cove store.
Wilbourne/Morris & Beith had students compose personal poems entitled, “Where I’m From”. In addition to the written component, students transformed their piece into a digital story using iMovie to add their own voice and images to increase the impact.
Student Directions
Culture Poem Reflection
Digital Poem Rubric
Ms. Leighty had students work in groups to create review videos to help the class prepare for the semester exam. Each group chose a different grammar lesson to teach to the class. When finished the class had multiple videos to watch to help them review and study. This a great way for students to become the expert and teach each other.
Groups were given the responsibility to create a timeline for the project to help them with time management and organization in order to complete the task by the due date. In addition, specific directions and a rubric were created by the teacher.
Student Handout & Rubric Project Timeline Project Grammar Topics
Student Example gramativa-sample
This year Mrs. Walker’s creative writing class published the Literary Magazine online. A great way to Go Green!
Students worked on compiling the different pieces for the site and created the websites using iWeb. This is a great way to highlight the outstanding writing from our students.
Check out the Winter Edition of The Troubador here:
Ms. Chandler collaborated with Ms. Starr and Ms. Walker to create a Shakespeare project for their IB English 6 students. This unit was an introduction to the Elizabethian and Shakespeare language that will be taught in more detail in English 7 & 8.
The following website was created by Ms. Chandler to deliver a pre-quiz and rubrics for each of the product options. The students score on the pre-quiz helped guide students to choose a product type (A,B, or C)
http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/moody/chandler_l/Shakespeare/Welcome.html
Ms. Foley’s 7th grade social studies classes interviewed famous business men of the early 1900’s. Each “talk show” was recorded in class, then edited and finalized using iMovie. Students worked in groups to collaborate and create a opening and closing theme song (completed in GarageBand) and an opening and closing picture.
One class created a website for their talk shows and uploaded the latest episode.
Check out the website to view student examples: http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/moody/foley_v/talkshow/home.html Talk Show Student Handout Talk Show Rubric
Students will construct tetrahedral kites in class as we prepare for our study of geometric solids. The kites will take approximately three days to make. Weather permitting, we should be able to fly them during the first week of April.
Download the requirements: click here
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