We are excited to learn a new piece of software called ActivInspire, which links to the Promethean Board. Students are designing a presentation on ActivInspire about the end of the Revolutionary War. Students were given a concept sheet with guiding questions as a layout for information they needed to include in their presentations. We are working on synthesizing information. Students gathered resources including textbook summaries, textbook photocopies, notes in a Power Point presentation, information from a film, and parts from picture books, as the basis of information used for the project. Each student has a calendar with due dates to help guide them in organizing and dividing the project. Our goal is to Toast Master the presentations. Toast Master is software that records the movements on the screen. It is like a video of the presentation in action showing where the mouse clicked, what the screen showed, and what the user did next. Ultimately, we hope to upload our presentations to the web for others to use and learn from.
Simultaneously, we are moving ahead with our Social Studies work exploring the Constitution, branches of government, and soon the Civil War with elements of the Industrial Revolution. We will examine how progress and invention transformed the land that the colonists found and grew cities and states in terms of population and industry.
Please check out the S.S. section of your child's Trapper to see details about the assignment.
Dates to remember:
Rummage sale is in full swing until Monday
Grandfriends' Day, May 7th, Dismissal at noon.
5th Grade Overnight, May 14th
Adios for now!
Laura
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