Oh, the Places We Will Go!

Do you know this book? Of course you do! 

It's a fantastically positive journey of discovery.

The third grade class this year decided to do a large project using this book as a springboard and WOW did it turn out well!

Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

C is working on his research.

​First we read the book to the students, Most of them were familiar with it, but it is always a fun one to read!

Next up, we all chose a particular country from around the world to research.

We then used the tablets and the website, Around the World with Time for Kids to research the country in detail. We looked at key events, population, large cities, etc. We drew timelines, illustrated what the flag looked like, and more! It was a lot of work, but totally worth it! Our lovely tech teacher, Mr. Schneider helped out bunches.

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Here is A's suitcase!

​For our final project we created a "suitcase" to hold all of our activities. 

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My favorite activity was the postcards the students created. On one side of the postcard they wrote a letter to a fictitious friend (the friend's names and address were hysterical in itself!) The letter included a lot of the research info that the students had researched. The students also wrote from the point of view of a sightseer in THAT country. Neat! On the other side of the postcard was a picture from that country. What made this even cooler is that Mr Schneider was able to green screen the kids right into a picture in that country. What?!? The students looked like they were really there!

Here is A's picture. First is her green screen photo, next is her "visit" to her faraway land. Using tech, we were able to superimpose their image on the picture. Cool!

​The project was spearheaded by our wonderful Mrs. J! Big thanks to her and to Mr. Schneider for their help!

We took it a step further and presented all of the things we did to our school board. We wanted to showcase the students and how they were able to incorporate technology into our lessons. The board was impressed and excited by the use of tech by the students.