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Use Wixie to learn as you playTake time to create original art and designsExplore projects and tasks that build literacyLearn how to use and integrate WixieUse Wixie as a regular part of your classroom routine
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Symmetry is a powerful tool for art as well as exploring shape and geometric transformations. You can select and flip art in Wixie to experiment with symmetry as well as use the linear and radial symmetry options on Wixie paint brush tool. Use Wixie to create the symmetry activities in this lesson. Remember scratch art? Wixie contains an entire folder of templates with colorful backgrounds you can "scratch" into with the Eraser tool. Need more a focused approach? Search "Klimt" in Wixie to create your own Klimt-style tree-of-life or "petroglyph" to use the eraser to carve rock art. There is more to comprehension than character trait clusters and character-plot-setting charts. Explore these creative performance tasks for assessing comprehension like new book cover designs and character coat of arms. Choose a performance task and use Wixie to create a sample for your favorite book.Explore ways to use Wixie to implement differentiated instruction to know your students as unique learners, differentiate assignments, and more. Choose a single activity in the Wixie templates folder, or one you have made on your own, and differentiate for three different levels of learners.Explore the All About Me folder in Wixie's Templates library to find an idea you can use to introduce students to Wixie right away when school begins. Use the three dots next to the thumbnail to "Copy to [your] My Projects folder. Create your own high-quality example to introduce yourself to your students.
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Tessellations are patterns made from repeating shapes that fit together perfectly. It is easy to tessellate using triangle, square, and hexagon shapes in the Wixie stickers library (Math>Tessellations). You can also use Wixie's paint tools to create rotation and reflection tessellations.Guiseppe Arcimboldo is an Italian Renaissance painter known for his portraits of people that use objects like fruit and books. Create Arcimboldo-style self-portraits by combining clip art images in Wixie. Browse Templates folder and Art folder to find a template to support student work (lesson plan)Student work with informational text doesn’t have to be a dry regurgitation of facts. Explore ideas to turn informational text projects from ordinary into extraordinary. Then, choose an informational text you use in your classroom and create a high-quality example of one of the products in the article to share with your students.Wixie includes project assessment tools, like rubrics and checklists, teachers can use to evaluate student work. Open the Templates folder at your Wixie home page and browse the Assessment folder and subfolder to explore examples. Watch how to create a rubric from scratch and use the New button to create an assessment on your own.Explore the links that interest you on the Wixie throughout the Curriculum page. Find two projects you would like to do with students this school year. Copy down the link to the sample, idea, or lesson plan. Then, go through the lesson plan and create the project mentioned so you have a high-quality example to share with your students.
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Hieroglyphics are pictures used to represent words, ideas, and sounds. Search "cartouche" at your Wixie home page to find a template where you can write your name using hieroglyphs. Then, try writing a hieroglyphics story with the images in the Alphabet>Hieroglyphics folder in the Stickers library.You may be familiar with George Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grand Jatte" which was painted with a technique called Pointillism. Create your own painting with pointillism in Wixie, by choosing the paintbrush tool, adjusting size and color, and clicking on the page to make each dot.Use Wixie to create an adaptation of your favorite book or picture book. For example, read or watch Judi Barrett's Things That Are Most in the World. Then, choose a superlative, write a sentence giving a context clue, illustrate, and record like this.Wixie includes thousands of templates you can use for formative assessment, practice, and peformance tasks. Did you know you can make your own? Customize an existing Wixie template or create your own template from scratch. Then, share it with other educators at your site.Teachers have a Showcase folder that allows them to save student work to share in future years. Find two examples of high-quality work from your students and add the files to your Showcase. Students can use their Highlights folder to create a similar collection of their work for student-led conferences.
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Do you love the snow globe you took home from vacation or the one you have out at the holidays? Create your own snow globe in Wixie with the "Design a Snow Globe" template. Add images to represent an important memory, objects that represent a different culture or location, or the plants and animals in a single habitat. Edward de Bono has been considered the father of creativity. Build your creativity and lateral thinking using his circles idea. Open the Templates folder and then the General folder to open the "creativity practice" template. Use Wixie's paint tools to turn circles into recognizable objects.Write and illustrate a poem in Wixie. From blackout to bio, from concrete to visual, Wixie makes writing and illustrating poetry fun. Explore different ideas for using Wixie for poetry and then create your own example. Explore Templates>Language Arts>Writing>Poetry for templates to help you get started.Wixie is a powerful tool for Blended Learning. Even if each student doesn't have their own device in your room, you can use Wixie at a center or as part of a station rotation. Revisit a center or station rotation you already use in your classroom and design a digital practice or create station for Wixie.Your class can create an ABC book on just about any topic to share knowledge they have learned. An alphabet-style informational text is a great “writing across the curriculum” performance task. Choose a topic you are exploring with students and make 3 examples (for letters like J, Q, and X) to inspire your learners.
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Students can create original artwork with Wixie's paint tools or added images through the Stickers library, but did you know you can combine features of these two image options by using the Glue feature to send clip ar to the paint layer and convert to sticker to make your own art float like an object? Practice these skills by combining animals to create a new creature, like the Cagek.Explore a few ways to use children's literature to jump start primary and elementary math projects and then create your own high-quality sample. For example, you can read The Shape of Things, by Dayle Ann Dodds, and compose an object from 2D shapes. Search Wixie for "Dodds" to find a range of templates where you can draw and write to create your own version of the book.Make student work with phonics much more fun by asking your learners to combine text, images, and voice narration to create and publish unique artifacts that show off their learning. For example, you can read and sing Raffi’s Down by the Bay and ask students to use the pattern in the book, combined with their knowledge of rhyming words and how they are spelled, to create their own verses.Wixie is an ideal and versatile canvas for creating project-based learning products. Wixie can also be used throughout the project-building process to support thinking, ideation, and formative assessment. Read this article on using Wixie for both and then create a high-quality example of a PBL product or develop 2-3 templates you can use to support your learners during the process.Bell ringers help students settle in and focus on a new task, while also allowing their teachers time to take care of any administrative or individualized learning check-in's with students. Explore whole class and individual ways to use Wixie to help students warm up for learning and then create 2-3 of your own Wixie bell-ringer activities.
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