Smore flyers on compare/contrast Energy Science/Art collaboration

Smore is a great tool I let my students use to create flyers and posters. The free web based application allows students to easily make flyers and incorporate web content, while sharing it through social media.

 

Read below to see the work my 6th graders did as a collaboration project between the Media Arts and Science. To introduce the students to Smore, they at first made

Smore flyers that promote the Media Arts in Black Water Middle

You can  use my rubric below for the project, or some other resources in my Smore Energy Flyer Edmodo folder

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Here are some of the flyers that my sixth graders made that compared/contrasted two types of energy

Jorge's

 

Champy's Jaden's

Phoebe

Trinity Hol.

Dylan

Build Your Wild Self Stories : iBook of 6th grade BWMS Media Arts digital storytelling

Check out a previous blog post about Build Your Wild Self Stories

to get the individual stories and more details. Scroll down to read the full PDF version and the iBook version

Don't like PDF's? How about you download the iBook and read it on your Apple device

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Why do I like Minecraft - a student reflection

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A student showcases the art he made out of Minecraft blocks. He dilated a drawing he made on DrawCast of the circulatory system and made a 3D model of it out of blocks

This helped as a precursor for knowledge and experience with the Minecraft app. The Minecraft project was a Flipped Class was experiment where my students ran the class as the experts and I was the facilitor of the project.

See some of the pictures and videos for student led demos and how to get Minecraft into your classroom