Create
An
I Spy Book
Grade: Primary
Subject: Language Arts
Description:
Students will create their own I Spy e-book using
pictures scanned in or taken with the digital camera. The images will
become a guide to writing sentences using adjectives to describe number
and color.
Procedure:
- Share several I Spy Books with the class. Explain to the students how they are going to create their own book using manipulatives from the classroom and other small objects.
- Assistant students in arranging objects for pictures on a table. Using a camera or digital camera, take pictures of several groupings.
- Scan or load the pictures into the computer. You will need to Import the pictures into individual slides.
- With the rectangle tool, make a white rectangle at the bottom of each slide. Instruct individual students on how to write I Spy picture riddles. Let the students complete their riddles on a paper before they use the keyboard tool to type their riddles.
- When all slides are complete, insert them into slideshow and record the students voices reading their slides. Be sure to include a creative title slide.
Extensions:
- Create an I Spy Book using objects that correspond with a current theme of study.
- Print the individual slides to make an I Spy Book.
- Save the slideshow on video tape for students to take home and share.
Presentation Tools:
- Export
slides as .jpg to create a PowerPoint e-book for the web.
PPT Example - Use
PhotoJam from Macromedia to create an awesome e-book video.
PJ Example
Kathy
Adkins
Forsyth County Schools