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Every year the 5th graders of Scarsdale participate in Capstone. Capstone is the last two months of school, post-standardized testing. Students choose a topic, research it, and create a final product. It is designed to be a self-directed, passion/interest based assignment. And it ends with a tri-fold board… This year our school decided to turn…
It was the beginning of June and Ms. Conklin and I met to talk about a final project. A project the students could have a lot of fun with through the last month, but also a project that would also incorporate their cultural universal unit of study. We decided to take their research on a…
The following items are animated books created using Google Slides with Ms. Citron’s class… From Ms. Citron: The students in 2C researched a variety of animal adaptations, wrote introductions and created drafts of their findings. These presentations reflect a variety of interpretations of this assignment, and builds on a year long curriculum, devoted to this…
The students of 2-O researched animals and the adaptations that are crucial to their survival. After researching the adaptations and creating paper-based rough drafts of books the students used Google Slides to create dynamic, digital representations of their books. These books include all of the research and writing the students compiled as well as the…
One option for Capstone is to do a “stand-alone” presentation. By “stand-alone” we mean using a tool such as Google Slides to convey your information, without presenting it in person. “Stand-alone” means the presentation has to teach the viewer about your topic, convey your learning, without you there to verbalize the experience. Whereas an in-person…
Toward the end of every school year the 5th graders embark on their Capstone Projects. They choose an area of interest, develop a main inquiry question and related sub-questions, seek out experts in their field of interest, conduct interviews, go on site visits, and do a ton of traditional book and web-based research. It is…
5th graders, As you think about how you are going to tell your Capstone story, one tool you might use is video. The most common use of video is iMovie. But iMovie is just a tool to tell a story. It’s not that you use iMovie, but how you use iMovie that matters. One of…
Every year the 1st Graders get eggs and learn about the process of chickens hatching. We are live streaming the eggs and the hatching process! Point of reference, some seem to have hatched a few days early, which is why some of these live feeds have more chicks then eggs, and others more eggs then…
This year we will do Capstone a bit differently. The tri-fold boards are no more. We are presenting our projects in more engaging ways… Two modern presentation styles are TED Talks and Ignite Presentations. TEDs are usually 18 minutes and have very little visuals or slides. Ignites are 5 minute presentations with slides auto-advancing every…
Students of 3C, Today we are using your book clubs and Padlet to explore different text structures. Mrs. Conklin has made a Padlet for each of the structures you have been discussing in class: