George Washington Carver has so many aspects to his life that his story can be taught in all grades. While looking at the K-6 courses of study, I found places that his story could be told in science, social studies, and language arts. (Many of these tools and apps have been included before. Now they are being presented with specific lesson ideas.)
Introduction: Introduce George Washington Carver through the use of the Nearpod App. Nearpod is a presentation tool with a twist. The teacher will give students a code that they enter on the app on their iPad. Once they are in they enter their name. This helps the teacher keep track of how the students are doing on the quizzes. You have to create your Nearpod online. There you can drag and drop a PowerPoint turned pdf. Then you can add interactive tools to the presentation such as video, quizzes, links to websites, polls, and a cool drawing tool. Nearpod has been updated since the last time it appeared in this newsletter. Now it is a single app rather than the former student and teacher apps. Some cool ideas for a George Washington Carver presentation could be drawing the parts of a peanut plant, and an open ended question having students give their opinion on his greatest discovery.
2. iFunFace: This app is currently free. It is in the same family as Blabberize, Face Jack, and other talking apps. In this app the entire head will bob as the mouth talks. This would be a great tool to use an image of George Washington Carter. Students could make him talk about his life, his research, or the many uses of peanuts. Students love making history come alive. (Remember the first time you played with Voki.)
3. Screencasting: Using your favorite screen casting app students can record themselves giving the directions for how to create the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Some of the screencasting apps that have been included in Friday Five before are Screen Chomp, Educreations, Show Me, and Explain Everything. Show Me has several examples of creating a peanut butter sandwich in the explore section of the app.
4. Do it all with Pictures: What a fun way for students to share their learning. Use PicCollage app and have students tell you what they’ve learned with just pictures. Have students take pictures of George Washington Carver and the things that were important in his life. Let PicCollage instantly arrange your photos into frames - or get creative with freeform collages, cutouts, filters, borders, stickers, and text.
5. Finally for some Fun: This fun app is great for stress relief at the end of the project. Balance asks you to pop the colored blocks while keeping the Ninja Peanut from dropping onto the floor. You will need to pop the blocks in the right order to keep things balanced!
Bonus: Brain Pop Jr. and Learning Games for Kids both have great videos that help tell George Washington Carver’s story.
If you are not studying George Washington Carver, I hope you can adapt these ideas to whatever person or character your class is studying.
Have a great weekend!
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