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This notebook is part of a blog post from Ditch That Textbook.
Feel free to copy it (File > Make a copy …). Use it with your students. Modify it to fit your needs. Delete unneeded activities and duplicate those you’ll use often.
If you share it, please give credit where credit is due (Matt Miller @jmattmiller from DitchThatTextbook.com).
Please don’t pass it off as your own. If you like it and want to share it, give credit -- or create something yourself and share that instead.
Insert an image on this slide. Then drag arrows on the image to identify parts and the text box built into the arrows to label. But that’s just the beginning! Add any other elements to annotate this image, too!
Use this arrow to label.
Use this arrow to label.
Use this arrow to label.
Use this arrow to label.
Use this arrow to label.
Use this arrow to label.
Use this arrow to label.
Use this arrow to label.
Use this arrow to label.
Use this arrow to label.
Labeling an image
Insert an image on this slide. Then use the speech/thought bubbles to show what people in the image are thinking/saying. But that’s just the beginning! Add any other elements to annotate this image, too! (PS: Click on a speech/thought bubble and drag the yellow dot to move the tail of the bubble around!)
Caption This!
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Moveable vocabulary
Category 1 for sorting
Category 2 for sorting
Category 3 for sorting
Category 4 for sorting
Use icons (at left), shapes, lines, text, images, etc. to recreate a map -- or create a digital “diorama” of a scene. Add lots of details to show what you’ve learned about the scene and what happened there. (Also, leave the attribution line at the bottom of the scene if you use the icons. Citing the artist that created the icons is what we do to give credit to who created them.)
Digital diorama/map
Icons by Gregor Cresnar via TheNounProject.com
Use these frames (or resize them … or add more of your own … whatever!) for panels of a comic strip. Use the webcam (Insert > Image > Camera) to insert pictures taken of you. Add images. Use icons. Use shapes. Build out your comic strip to show what you have learned.
Comic strips
Here’s some text you can replace with your own!
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Here’s some text you can replace with your own!
Here’s some text you can replace with your own!
Here’s some text you can replace with your own!
Here’s some text you can replace with your own!
Here’s some text you can replace with your own!
Take pictures of your science lab, process, demonstration, etc. Insert those pictures on slides. Add text boxes with descriptions of what’s happening in each slide. Add the red numbered dots on top of each of your images so we know what order they go in.
Insert your image here. To take a picture with your webcam, go to Insert > Image > Camera.
Insert your image here. To take a picture with your webcam, go to Insert > Image > Camera.
Lab report / Series of pictures
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Here is a text box where you can add your description of what’s happening in the image!
Here is a text box where you can add your description of what’s happening in the image!
Use the dots on the left side of this page to plot on the coordinate plane. Click on a dot and use Ctrl + D to duplicate it. Add lines with the line tool in the toolbar. Use the text box at the bottom to have students describe their work!
Tip: If you click on a dot and the blue resizing squares get in the way, click off the dot and then click and drag.
Here’s a text box where you can describe -- in words -- what’s happening up on that coordinate plane above. Replace with your own words.
Coordinate plane
Give students a prompt that they can react to. It could be an opinion question. It could be how a character would react. It could be a value judgment. Drag the green dot on the Likert scale. Then, have students explain their thinking in the text box below.
Here’s a text box where you can describe -- in words -- what’s happening up on that coordinate plane above. Replace with your own words.
Likert scale
Add images that support your message. Add text to give details. Provide hyperlinks to resources. You can also add arrows, shapes, lines, text, etc. over the top of images. Change the title from “Comic strips” to something that describes your project.
Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it.
Interactive poster
Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it. Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it.
Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it.
Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it.
Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it.
Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it. Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it.
Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it.
Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it.
Here is some text. Remove it and replace it with your own! Even add some hyperlinks in it.
Start with a vocabulary word. Then, using a thesaurus, find synonyms and antonyms of that word. Find words that are “more” or “less” than the first vocabulary word that you started with.
Idea from fifth grade teacher Tony Vincent from LearningInHand.com. Click here to see his template.
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Shades of meaning
Use the sticky note shapes on the left to get your ideas out and organize them. Click a sticky note and use the Ctrl + D keyboard shortcut to duplicate it. Move it on the page. Double click it to start typing. Use the arrow shapes to show flow or process (if that’s helpful) … Ctrl + D to duplicate them, too.
Sticky note brainstorming
Use the sticky note shapes on the left to get your ideas out and organize them. Click a sticky note and use the Ctrl + D keyboard shortcut to duplicate it. Move it on the page. Double click it to start typing. Use the arrow shapes to show flow or process (if that’s helpful) … Ctrl + D to duplicate them, too.
Writer’s notebook: prewriting
Take ideas from your prewriting section and start organizing it here. Decide what you think your three main ideas will be and gather details to support them in their text boxes. Use the introduction to show the reader why it’s important. Use the conclusion to show the reader what he/she just read and what to do going forward. This is just a summary! You’ll go into more detail when you start writing.
Writer’s notebook: drafting
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Write out your notes through the various steps of the scientific method in the text boxes provided!
Scientific method
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Work through the design process with the text boxes on this page. OR … create a single page for each step and use shapes, icons, webcam images, text and more to display your thinking!
Engineering design process
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