My extremely long Egypt unit is done (thank you snow days) and I really wanted to do something fun, especially since Tuesday starts MCAs. Aaaaahhhhhhh! First I decided to do a very Common Corey project. When I moved into my new classroom I found all these amazing, but singular, books on Egypt so I decided to put them to good use. I asked the kids to peruse the books and find a topic about Ancient Egypt that interested them. Once they found that an interesting topic, they were to make a claim about their interest and support it with four pieces of textual evidence.
My kids are textual evidence masters so this was easy and we could soon move to the fun! I decided that the kids would use the
Zimmer Twins website to lay out their claim and evidence in a movie. My fabulous friend
Tracy did a similar project and Oscar party last year so this year I decided to pillage her great idea.
Th best thing about the Zimmer Twins is its a cartoon maker where the kids can easily choose what happens next in the movie. It has tons of freedom so the students really feel like they are making their own movie. The kids loved it an we planned the First Annual Wilkie Awards for today!
When the kids entered the classroom they got to walk the red carpet and "Hooray for Hollywood" was blasting in the background;)
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| My fabulous boa! |
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| The red carpet! |
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| Yup! Lots of popcorn!!!! |
My amazingly fabulous and wonderful computer teacher let the kids work on their videos during class. She said they kept working and telling everyone they were going to win that Wilkie. I looooooove these kids!
The awards ceremony is Monday so stay tuned!
My kids are textual evidence masters so this was easy and we could soon move to the fun! I decided that the kids would use the Zimmer Twins website to lay out their claim and evidence in a movie. My fabulous friend Tracy did a similar project and Oscar party last year so this year I decided to pillage her great idea.
Th best thing about the Zimmer Twins is its a cartoon maker where the kids can easily choose what happens next in the movie. It has tons of freedom so the students really feel like they are making their own movie. The kids loved it an we planned the First Annual Wilkie Awards for today!
My amazingly fabulous and wonderful computer teacher let the kids work on their videos during class. She said they kept working and telling everyone they were going to win that Wilkie. I looooooove these kids!
The awards ceremony is Monday so stay tuned!
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You see like an amazing teacher. My name is Andrew Benharris and I teach 8th Grade Social Studies (World History Fall of Rome- Enlightenment) in Attleboro, MA. I would love to get a chance to talk to you, as you have many great ideas, and pick your brain.
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