4th Grade Picture a Story

Create your own artistic masterpiece by launching the interactive Picture a Story activity. Look through the images below for a brief introduction on how this activity works, or click on the link below to begin picturing your story.

Launch the Picture a Story Activity

1) Choose your genre

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First, you’ll select the type of story you wish to write.

2) Choose a background and add characters and props

Continue by building the scene for your story, including characters and props that can be resized to fit into you scene.

3) Tell your story

Next you'll write a story to accompany your picture. If you like you can record a dramatic reading of your story using your computer’s microphone.

4) Share your story

Once finished, you have the option to send your creation to family and friends, and submit it to the Delaware Art Museum to be included in an online gallery of pictures and stories. Let the creativity begin!

Launch the Picture a Story Activity

3rd Grade Learning About Landscapes

Have you ever noticed that famous artists use special tricks to make their pictures look like they are going back into the distance?

Explore some of their tricks at Learning About Landscapes and then create your own landscape using KidPix or another painting program. when painting your own landscape make sure to set your horizon line and create your background, middleground, & foreground.


KidPix Student Example



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3rd Grade Touch Typing

BBC Schools has created THE best online typing tutorial. Practice Dance Mat Typing and become a touch typing pro. There are 12 stages, divided into 4 levels. Make sure to practice each stage often, and no peeking at your keyboard.

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5th Grade Online Phone Book

A class lesson where we compared searching for phone numbers by using the "old school" phone book and two websites (yellowbook.com & whitepages.com). Which method are you able to find phone numbers more quickly? Which method is easier to use? Can you think of any instances when using the "old school" phonebook would trump technology?

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1st Grade Cooking with Caillou & Dinosaur Dig

Visit Caillou for an interactive lesson in cooking. Also, don't forget to head to Calliou's backyard & be a paleontologist!




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K-2 Starfall.com

Starfall is a fantastic literacy site for any student in grade K-2.

1st Grade PBS Kids

Visit the PBS Kids games page. Can you navigate to different games & use the back arrow to navigate back to the PBS Kids homepage? Remember to use the back arrow in Internet Explorer or click on the PBS Kids icon.




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5th Grade Google Search Tips

Google Senior Engineer Matt Cutts, walks us through some interesting search strategies in this TeacherTube Google Search Tips video. Some of these tips can be very helpful! Now that you have learned some new search strategies, see if you can do the following:

• Find movie showtimes
• Find directions from your home to a business
• Narrow down your search results

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2nd Grade Spelling with Fearless Frieda

Learn to spell while riding a skateboard. Why not? Visit Fearless Frieda Skillful Skateboarding. Listen to the word, spell the word right, and watch how how she'll fly!




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5th Grade Westward Trail

The year is 1848 and you are about to embark on a 2000 mile journey across North America from Independence, Missouri to Oregon Country on the Pacific coast via the fabled Oregon Trail (Westward Trail). Do you have the skills to survive? Choose your profession wisely, and carefully select a month to depart. Good luck, you'll need it!


  Westward Trail

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2nd Grade Internet Safety

Clicky teaches us to "Use Your Netsmartz" with this great video, The Boy Who Loved IM. Next, join Faux Paw the Techno Cat who reminds us that being safe online means, Keep Safe, Keep Away, Keep Telling. And last, print & color one of these coloring sheets from ikeepsafe.org.


       

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5th Grade Desinging Floor Plans

Who says you need a degree to be an architect? Try the free demo at floorplanner.com and create your own floor plans.

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5th Grade Google Search Stories

5th graders used this free online video creator (Google Search Stories) to produce their very own 35 second movie. Each "Search Story" is told through a series of Google searches. Give it a go and create your own Search Story now!

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