Our Next Big Project
For the third graders’ next big project, we will be creating… a “Choose Your Own Adventure” video game/animation! We are in the beginning stages of creating an informative and engaging product that will demonstrate the environmental and cultural changes of Alaska over time.
The Beginning of Something Beautiful
Scratch is a great program that will allow the students to show what they know and answer the question: How can we inform others about the impacts of science, technology, and innovation on the development of towns and cities in Alaska? We began meeting with Mrs. Bookman at the end of each day this week to work on the basics of coding. We learned how to animate our names and create moving objects that could speak. We also learned how to change backdrops: an important part of a “Choose Your Own Adventure” game.
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| After some Scratch tutorials and basic skills under our belts, it is time to focus on the history of Alaska. What will students find out about the past, present, and future of Alaska? How have our choices affected our home’s cultural and environmental attributes? How will our choices continue to affect the world around us?As we move forward we will be addressing the following the following standards: GEO 3.5 Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time. GEO 3.7 Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas. GEO 3.9 Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration. |
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.7 Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace. |