student+projects

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 * PLEASE NOTE: These tools are not necessarily FERPA compliant and all student projects were produced after parent permission forms were obtained.**

**Project** || **Curricular** **Content** || **Description** || **Tools** || **Student** **Exemplar** || 2nd grade || Hero unit || After studying the attributes of a hero, students select someone from the past or present who epitomize those characteristics. Their research, writing and presentation of attained understanding is coupled with technology skills. || **Tool used:**
 * **Grade Level /**
 * ** Your My Hero! **
 * Greenscreen

ECE || Words Around Us (homophones and homonyms) || Students learn and play with words that sound alike and have two meanings. They write clues for their chosen words, record their clues and offer a visual aid for the viewer. || **Tool used:**
 * Other possible tools:**
 * AudioBoo
 * Vocaroo
 * ChirbIt || media type="custom" key="27578980" ||
 * //**How Do You Spell THAT?**//
 * Audacity

media type="file" key="Isaiah take2.mp3" width="240" height="20" media type="custom" key="9883355" || 2nd grade || Science; plants || Working in groups, students studied various type of plants, then wrote radio shows (with interviews and commercials). || **Tool used:**
 * Other possible tools:**
 * AudioBoo
 * Vocaroo
 * ChirbIt ||.
 * **The Great Plant Podcast**
 * Audacity

Kindergarten Research || Other Places; Other Peoples || Students choose a location in the world, work collaboratively to generate questions they have about other countries, then research their answers from selected books before they share their discoveries. || **Tool used:**
 * Other possible tools:**
 * AudioBoo
 * Vocaroo
 * ChirbIt || Bromwell Plants ||
 * **I Wonder...**
 * PhotoStory3

1st Grade || First study of animals and habitats || Students used a graphic organizer to gather research notes to write a first person report on an animal of their choice. Students then used keyword search strategies to find and save a picture of their animal. Animal pictures were then"Blabberized" as a multi-media production. || **Tool used:**
 * Other possible tools:**
 * CogDogRoo || media type="custom" key="12147444" ||
 * **//Animal Research//**
 * Blabberize


 * Other possible tools:**


 * Fotobable || media type="custom" key="9883557"

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 * 1st Grade || Comparative Writing || Students wrote and published their comparative writing piece || Tool used:
 * Fotobabble

1st grade || Research, writing, publication || First grade students take on the roll of in-the-field weather reporters around the world. || ** Tool used: **
 * Other possible tools:**
 * Educreations || media type="custom" key="24905540" ||
 * ** FIeld Weather Reporters **
 * Camera || media type="custom" key="24418676"

media type="custom" key="24905488" || 2nd Grade || Community Helpers || Students research, write and illustrate a Flat Stanley community helper to share electronically with the community. || **Tool used:**
 * //**Flat Stanley**//
 * Blabberize

Student Projects ||
 * Other possible tools:**
 * Fotobable || Click here toview
 * 2nd Grade || Historical Imagery || Students used Google Earth to look at communities as they historically evolve. || **Tool used:**

Google Earth download

2nd Grade || Introduction to written poetry || Students wrote poetry, illustrated their work, and vocalized their products || **Tool used:**
 * Learning Resources:** || media type="custom" key="27292284" ||
 * **//Poetry//**
 * Audacity
 * PowerPoint

Student work || 2nd Grade || Country study || Students worked in cooperative groups of 4 to research a country of their choice and take notes using a graphic organizer. Each student then chose 2 - 4 facts to represent in an online book using images found online and captions written from their notes. || **Tool used:**
 * Other tools to use:**
 * camera
 * Vocaroo
 * AudioBoo
 * PhotoStory3
 * Memoriesonweb || Click to see
 * **//Research-based//**
 * //online book//**
 * Mixbook

//2nd grade// || Literacy || Working in pairs, students research, write, find appropriate graphics and produce a How To video || **Tool used:**
 * Other tools to use:**
 * PhotoPeach
 * SlideRoll
 * PhotoStory3 || media type="custom" key="9883577" ||
 * **Sequential Explanations**
 * (How Tos)**
 * MovieMaker

3rd and 4th grade || Colorado history || Working in pairs, student refine their research on a Colorado character or place and share their work with peers and professionals for feedback. || **Tool used:** 4th grade || Colorado history || Travel back in time and enjoy these "old time radio" interviews || **Tool used:**
 * Other tools to use:**
 * PhotoStory3 || media type="custom" key="12147660" ||
 * //**Inquiry-based Colorado history**//
 * Glogster || media type="custom" key="9883887" ||
 * **Famous Coloradans**
 * Audacity

Interviews || 4th grade || Revisting our history || An end-of-year project, our students were asked to tell the story of a historical hero from the first-person perspective || **Tool used:**
 * Other tools to use:**
 * Vocaroo
 * AudioBoo || Click to hear
 * **Historical Heroes**
 * PhotoStory3

Student work || 5th grade || Free choice Reading || After reading a novel, students write a book trailor to advertise the book & entice other readers to read it. || **Tool used:**
 * Other possible tools:**
 * CogDogRoo || Click to see
 * **Booktalks**
 * PhotoStory3

Booktalks || 4th grade || U.S. State/Region || Research and writing provide the foundation for student reflections on state knowledge || **Tool used:**
 * Other possible tools:**
 * CogDogRoo || Click to see
 * **State reports**
 * SimpleBooklet

Reports || 5th and 6th grade || All content appropriate || Students choose a topic of personal academic interest. Research resulted in multi-media projects. || **Tool used:**
 * Other tools to use:**
 * Mixbook
 * PhotoPeach
 * SlideRoll || Click to see
 * **//Research-based//**
 * //virtual tours//**
 * Animoto

5th grade || Elementary Science || Food chain biomes were researched and presented. || **Tool used:**
 * Other possible tools:**
 * MuseumBox
 * Memoriesonweb || media type="custom" key="9883827" ||
 * **Food Chain Biomes**
 * Animoto
 * Audacity

Reports || 5th-8th grade || Any content appropriate || Students brainstormed and investigated topics with driving questions and used web 2.0 tools to present research findings on informational websites. || **Tool used:**
 * Other possible tools:**
 * MuseumBox
 * Memoriesonweb || Click to see
 * **//Inquiry-based//**
 * //research projects//**
 * Wikispaces
 * Blabberize
 * ImageLoop
 * BigHugeLabs

Student work || Secondary || Any content appropriate || Prepare for a sensational experience, as a class studying one topic (the Medieval Ages) divides into groups, each group becoming an expert in one content section. || **Tool used:** 5th to High School || Any content appropriate || Students selected a geographical,historical, or cultural topic that they desired to gain a deeper understanding. Following intensive research, online note taking, and peer review, they published their final projects || **Tool used:** Upper elementary, middle and high schoo || History, research, writing || Researching the derivation of common-day sayings, students wrote a short understanding of how the phrase came to be and where they see it used in society today. || **Tool used:**
 * Other possible tools:**
 * Animoto
 * MuseumBox
 * Memoriesonweb || Click to see
 * **//Collaborative group studies//**
 * Wikispaces
 * PhotoPeach
 * Blabberize || Click to see student work ||
 * //**It's a mystery to me!**//
 * Mapwing || media type="custom" key="9884131" ||
 * **//The origin of everyday expressions podcast//**
 * Audacity

Student work || High School || Writing || Using exemplary pieces of literature as a model, students wrote reflective pieces of theirown, combined them with copyright free music, and created these magical videos. || **Tools used:**
 * Other possible tools:**
 * AudioBoo
 * Vocaroo
 * ChirbIt || Click to see
 * //**Reflections of Me**//
 * Animoto
 * Audacity

3rd and 4th Grade || Writing, research, publication || Using greenscreening, this educational team readies their research for Hollywood || **Tools used:** 3rd and 4th Grade || Writing, research, publication || Students spent time researching different states in the library. When the writing was complete, students worked on making booklets to advertise our state. || ** Tool used: ** State reports || 3rd grade || Writing, research, publication || Third grade students research and wrote first-person perspectives on Western characters. || ** Tool used: ** 3rd Grade || Writing, research, publication || Third grade students split into groups to use primary resources (from the Denver Public Library) and digital cameras to compare the "now and then" of two different neighborhoods surrounding their school. || ** Tool used: **
 * Other possible tools:**
 * MuseumBox
 * Memoriesonweb || media type="custom" key="12202948" ||
 * **Region Reports**
 * Greenscreening
 * Audacity || media type="custom" key="20427078" ||
 * //**State Reports**//
 * [|SimpleBooklet] || Click to see
 * ** Western Biographies **
 * [|MyBrainShark] || media type="custom" key="20427136" ||
 * //**Digital Reporters**//
 * Mixbook


 * Other tools to use: **
 * Tikatok
 * PhotoPeach
 * CogDogRoo || media type="custom" key="20427008" ||