Showing posts with label educational resource. Show all posts
Showing posts with label educational resource. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Character Scrapbook: Analyze Stories

Another post to share from Free Technology for Teachers site ....

Character Scrapbook Helps Students Analyze Stories

Scholastic's Character Scrapbook is an online activity that could help your students analyze the characters in the books that they read. The Character Scrapbook asks students to create a digital drawing of what they think a character from a book looks like. The Character Scrapbook allows students to create digital drawings of people or animals. After creating their drawings students then complete a list of ten things that they know about the character, ten words to describe the character, ten details about the character, ten challenges facing the character, and ten things about the character's personality. When students have completed each page of the Character Scrapbook the pages can be printed.

Applications for Education
Character Scrapbook isn't a revolutionary tool. In fact, you could do the same activity on paper. The one thing that I really like about Character Scrapbook is that digital drawing tool allows students who might not think of themselves as creative artists to create a visual representation of their favorite characters from the books that they read.

Monday, September 18, 2017

EDSITEment Social Studies and Literacy Materials

EDSITEment Social Studies & Literacy Materials


The National Endowment of the Humanities has a great educational resource called EDSITEment, that is an incredible clearinghouse of all things American history, literature, and art. (In fact, their CLOSER READINGS blog is an awesome literacy tool.)

they also have a monthly EDSITEment newsletter that features high-quality content that teachers will love! Here are some social studies highlights for September:

Print of schoolboy in classroom

Back to School 2017

We’ve culled our most popular lessons in history, literature, art, culture, philosophy, and world languages to jump start your class.

Detail of Christy painting of signing of Constitution

Constitution Day, September 2017

This year, we’ve updated our portal with over 30 lessons on the origins, ratification, amendments, and impact of the United States Constitution.