VoiceThread
VoiceThread allows students and teachers to put images and comments together easily and share them with a broader audience. Here are some possible ways to use VoiceThread to support your Red Clover Program.
1. Create a bird gallery. Students can add comments or even create the images that are shared.
2. Display art inspired by Calder. Each student explains her/his own piece and comments on the work of others.
3. Take photos of a tree planting inspired by Wangari’s Trees of Peace. Upload the photos into VoiceThread and have students narrate the events and explain their importance.
Check out VoiceThread by visiting http://voicethread.com.
Lionel’s Tall Tales
Use this interactive website to explore sentences. Each one has a who, what, where, when and why. Mix them up for some silliness. http://pbskids.org/cgi-registry/lions/cor-tales.pl/click
Presidential Bio-Cube
ReadWriteThink has an excellent lesson plan and tool that can be adapted. Students research a President or First Lady and use their research to create a foldable cube.
Visit www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=928 for the lesson plan and http://readwritethink.org/materials/bio_cube/ for the Bio-Cube maker.
Build Your Wild Self
What child hasn’t pretended to be an animal? Give kids a chance to build a wild version of themselves using this site from the New York Zoos and Aquarium: www.buildyourwildself.com.
Extend this activity by having students write a story about their alter ego.
