by Joyce L. Morris, last revised 6/11/2000
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| Grades K-1 | Examples |
| Dinosaur
Pictures
This first grade class has been studying Dinosaurs and the children have made slides in Kid Pix Deluxe. Students have a picture of a dinosaur, a sentence about them and read their sentence aloud. |
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| Heart
People
Kindergartners learned about the "shift" key for capital letters. They made Heart People Valentines by resizing the heart stamp for different body parts. |
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| Squirrel
Habitats
Kindergartners shared what they learned about squirrels. In the Tech Lab, they used a template with a squirrel and they added the background. They used a combination of the KidPix pencil tool to draw freehand, and the wacky paintbrush to make winter trees. They dictated a fact about squirrels which was added to their pictures. |
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| Ezra
Jack Keats Slide Show
Ezra Jack Keats Slide Show created by Mrs. Kathy Noethe's first grade class at Germantown Elementary School |
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| First
Grade Weather-Temperature
Mrs. Nathanielsz' First Grade Slide Show - Temperature |
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| GIFlowers.
Children create slides about different flowers praticing their upper and lower case letters |
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| I
know it's Autumn because... First graders are learning about keyboarding
and practicing using the
draw tools in Kid Pix. We learned to make capital letters using the shift key |
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| The Food Pyramid First graders used the Kid Pix stamps to find foods that would fit into categories on the good nutrition pyramid. | |
| Kings
Park-Technology
Grade level: Kindergarten Software used: KidPix |
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| Pumpkin Poem Children use KidPix to illustrate their poetry. | |
| An
Alphabet Book-- On-Line These alphabet pages were all created by five
and six year
old kindergarten students in Juneau, Alaska using KidPix2. When you look at these pages you will see "phonemic based" or "temporary" spelling. |
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| Grades 2-4 | dddd |
| Animal
ABC Book
Second graders came to the Tech Lab prepared with sentences about animals to go with the letters of the alphabet. When we put everyone's pictures and sentences together we had a class alphabet book |
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| Bel
Pre Butterflies
Mrs. Tang's second grade students' Butterfly Studies . |
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| Two Bad Ants Second and third graders illustrated their favorite parts of the book Two Bad Ants, written by Chris Van Allsburg. Some children drew a picture of a part they would add to the story. | |
| Making Maps in KidPix third graders use KidPix to make maps. | |
| Coupon Books Students make a coupon book. for their parents and learn KidPix tools in the process. | |
Third graders used KidPix for a number of activities in their unit
on Egypt:
King Tut Third graders, studying about Ancient Eqypt, used the fill tool, and other paint tools andpatterns in Kid Pix to add the details to a scanned drawing of King Tut. Egypt Fact Slide Show Using the computer, third graders each wrote something they learned about Egypt and then illustrated their facts. The next step was to combine all of the facts into a Kid Pix Slide Show. Below you can see a sample of some of the slides. |
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| Drawing Insects Second graders use KidPix to draw different insects. | |
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Multiplication Second graders made arrays to illustrate multiplication problems. They could use any of the digits from 1 to 9 to write their probelm. Next they chose a Kid Pix Stamp to make their first row. Then they used the moving truck tool and the magnet option to "select" that row. After the row was selected, they "copied" the row and "pasted" it the correct number of times to illustrate their math problem. |
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| Romulus
and Remus
Third graders, learning about Ancient Rome, illustrated different parts of the story of Romulus and Remus. Several students decided to tell the whole story by making a Kid Pix Slide Show. |
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| Tiger Slippers When Chinese mothers made slippers, they padded the soles with layers of paper and cloth to made the slippers soft for their children. They often sewed tiger faces onto the front of the slippers. Here are some examples of the tiger slippers third graders drew on the computer during their study of China. | |
| Cricket Diagrams Second graders are beginning their study of insects. After looking at pictures of crickets, students drew their own crickets and labeled the three main body parts. | |
| Hopi Pottery The Hopi Indians have lived in the same area of the Southwest since before the time of Columbus. They lived in what is now Arizona. They lived on desert land at the foot of the mesas. Hopi women made beautiful baskets, clay bowls, and jewelry. After looking at examples of Hopi pottery on the Internet, students designed and drew their own clay pots using Kid Pix. | |
| Grades 5+ | bbbb |
| Mufaro's
Beautiful Daughters Slide Show
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe created by students in Mrs. Brown's reading group at Burnt Mills Elementary School using Kid Pix and Slide Show. |
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| Navajo
Rugs In this lesson, students will look at a variety of Navajo
rug weavings. Students
will identify the patterns and the shapes that were used. Using the "Edit Stamp" feature in Kid Pix, students will make their own Navajo rug. |
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| Egypt
Slide Show As part of a culminating activity for their study
of Ancient Egypt, fifth graders made a multimedia presentation about the
things that they learned. Here are some of the slides. |
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| Old Yeller Slideshows Fifth graders tell their version of this Classic with a Kidpix Slide Show. |
