Katriel Berbert EDEL 2200

In 5th grade language arts, students are expected to do a lot of literary analysis. I could have them make an animation as an alternative to writing a book report and show me through that animation that they identified the literary elements of the book they read. While I do understand that there can be benefit from having the students just write book reports, I'd rather for them to be able to exercise some additional creativity and make it fun for themselves and their classmates. In 5th grade social studies, Standard 2 is about understanding chronology and key events that led to the United States governing itself. I could have the students make an animation highlighting the key events to show how they fit together. Making a short video about it would probably be more memorable than just writing down the dates on a piece of paper. I could make an animation on my class website when the students are preparing for end of the year tests that highlights some of the key ideas that th...

In fourth grade, Standard 2 Objective 1a for social studies is to c hart the routes that diverse cultural groups took from their places of origin to Utah, using maps and other resources. G Suite provides us with the ability to create a custom map. As a class, we could start by locating the places of origin of our classmates and plotting those on a class map. I could then have the students research for themselves or share some research with my class showing the data about current immigration statistics and have my students use the map to demonstrate that. The My Map tool also allows you to embed pictures so my students could create infographics showing information about the different cultures in Utah and the people and traditions they bring. I could turn this into a group project and the students could work together from different computers on the same map because there is the option to share an editable file with other users. In fifth grade, Standard 1 for health  is about imp...