Multimedia American Patriotic Symbol Presentations with Kid Pix Deluxe 4

1. Multimedia American Patriotic Symbol Presentations with Kid Pix Deluxe 4 Miss Emily Morris Sunnyville Elementary School December 2005

2. What our students need to know effectively: • Search for information. • Organize what they find. • Write about what they find. • Create a product. • Present the product.

3. What students are motivated by: • Technology – computer time can be fun time! • Eye catching color, sound, animation • Hands-on activities

4. KidPix: How does it work for you? • Creates student-drawn graphics • Use text captions with images together to connect learning • Graphic organizers included for pre-writing step of writing process • Make presentation slideshows

5. What content areas could use KidPix? Math • Show graphic examples of math problems • Create word problems for other students to solve. • Make shapes and patterns.

6. What content areas could use KidPix? Science • Create habitat scenes • Draw animals, planets, plants and more! • Slideshows of scientific method presentations

7. What content areas could use KidPix? Language Arts • Organize writing for sentences and paragraphs • Make graphics for student books • Creatively react to stories read in class.

8. What content areas could use KidPix? Social Studies • Portray different scenes in history. • Draw famous people. • Create slideshows for Black History Month.

9. KidPix Presentations: Cultural and Historic American Symbols • Title page • Eye catching introduction • Graphic of symbol • Idea web of symbol facts • Paragraph of symbol information • Concluding slide

10. KidPix Features that I Like • Background sound • Animations • Transition effects and sounds • Original art creation tools • Stampers, stickers, shapes • Background scenes

11. Watch a sample KidPix slideshow • Look for all the different features. • Think about how you’d use this in your grade and subjects.

12. The End • Let’s start learning and creating! (c) 2005 – Emily Morris