Free Comic Strip Makers For Students

 

There a million different ways to have students at all levels use a digital comic strip in your class, no matter what you are teaching.  No, I can't use it in my physed class.  Yes do you teach health?  Science, what did one cell say to another during Mitosis?  Let your kids figure out the ending.  Math, okay that might be tough but I am sure someone smarter than me could figure it out. These would be great in ESL or ELL.  Maybe as a final summative evaluation.  The sky is the limit.  Here are a couple free comic strip makers.  To read the article click here.

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Hacking STEM

Hacking STEM is brought to you by Microsoft and is meant to provide teachers with an inexpensive way to deliver hands-on STEM lesson.  From their website, "Browse our library for downloadable, hands-on, teacher-tested projects and activities that use everyday materials to make STEM affordable, accessible, and fun for everyone.".  To see the website, click here.

Summarize

Here are two websites that you can copy and paste a large article into and it will return a summarized version.  I know that we want students to do this on their own but sometimes when they are looking for material for a project if the document is too long they will not read it.  This way they might check out the summary to see if they should read it.  To see these sites click here for smmry and click here for summarize this.

Absolute Value Project

I was at Growing Exponentially and saw this project that had people guess the number of  jelly beans in the jar.  She put the results in  a spread sheet and plotted the difference of the guess from the correct answer.  She then had her students make up their own project.  Check out the site and the student projects by clicking here.

Pop Art Group Project

I was on Artyfactory.com and noticed this collaborative art project.  First you must come up with a template for the piece of art.

 

Second is to cut up the template.

The third step is that each individual colours their own section.

The last step is to reconstruct the image.

More details can be found by going to their website by clicking here.

Biology Reading Days

Mrs Mikos is a high school biology teacher who runs a blog.  She posts about once a month and has some very good ideas.  You might want to look at her website by clicking here.  On her January 18 2016  blog she posted two book lists and a Final Project (it is ongoing through out the year).  Here are the links to her Biology book list, Anatomy & Physiology book list and her final project.  

Famous Artist Research Mobile

On January 8 2016 I posted about "Ceiling Decorations in Your Classroom".  To see that post click here.  Today I noticed on a defunct blog by Mrs L that she had her students make mobile's of Famous Artist as part of a project.  The finished projects with all the information on the back of the art was laminated and hung from her ceiling.  I thought of the post from January immediately.  To see her website click here.

Fitness Gram Brochure Project

Here is a project that you might use in your Physical Fitness class in a health unit.  The students will produce a brochure.  Included with this word document is a rubric.  Topics included are: Cardiovascular Endurance, Muscular Strength/Endurance, Flexibility and Body  Composition.  To download the file click here.