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Grade Level: Kindergarten - 6
Purpose:
To teach students to use the software KidPix, a multimedia and creativity
tool to enhance learning across the curriculum and inspire students to
create and enrich the learning process through the use of graphics.
Goals:
- To demonstrate the steps to follow in using the software to create
a slide show.
- To use the context of the basic differences between rocks and minerals
to create a meaningful presentation.
- To show different ways to import and save pictures and add titles
and labels.
Objectives:
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate that they know the steps in KidPix necessary to create
a slide show.
- Develop an idea within the context of their study of rocks and minerals
and create their own slide show presentation.
Background:
Kid Pix Deluxe 3 is appropriate for use in grades K-8. It is a versatile
tool for enhancing learning across the curriculum. Easy-to-use features
like realistic art tools and photo editing effects inspire students to
create and enrich the learning process by making it more fun and exciting.
Some benefits include realistic art tools; improved editable text with
spell checker; easy adding of graphics and special effects to student
photos; hundreds of flags, maps, backgrounds and activity and Slide Show
starters; features that let students expand their narrative skills as
they interweave art, text, and sounds into multimedia slide shows; support
for thousands of colors and extra file formats; and a full install option
(no need to run off CD) and a student log-in to facilitate classroom management.
Materials/Preparation:
Procedure:
- Have students work through the KidPix tutorial activity on the computers.
Extensions:
- Have the students create a slide show using the rocks and minerals
or anthropology content that they could present to a younger group of
students.
- Go through the section on Adding Stamps to Your Picture and have the
students design an effective Way to use this feature.
Assessment:
- Observe students as they are creating their slide shows.
- Sharing through oral presentation of slide shows.
Lesson Specifics:
- Skills: comparing, analyzing, organizing, following directions, basic
computer skills
- Duration: two or three 45-min. class sessions
- Setting: classroom, or computer lab
- Group Size: whole class, small groups
Illinois State Board of Education Goals and Standards:
- 5.C.2a: Create a variety of print and nonprint documents to
communicate acquired information for specific audiences and purposes.
- 13.B.2a: Explain how technology is used in science for a variety
of purposes (e.g., sample collection, storage and treatment; measurement;
data collection, storage and retrieval; communication of information).
Resources:
- Kid Pix Activity Kits—ready-made thematic Kid Pix activities
for an elementary curriculum:
- Volume 1 (Creepy Crawlies, Rocks & Soil, Seasons, Weather)
- Volume 2 (Community Workers, Fairy Tales, My Country, Native Americans)
- Kid Pix Simple Projects, Teacher Created Materials, Inc.
- Kid Pix for Terrified Teachers, Teacher Created Materials, Inc.
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