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Keywords: project based learning, digital learners,
Subject(s): Photography, Video, Technology, Podcasting, Science, Life Science, Writing, Music, Earth Science, Physics, Math
Grades K through 5
NETS-S Standard:
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Technology Operations and Concepts
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School: Menlo Park Elem School, Portland, OR
Planned By: Bobbi Gurney
Original Author: Bobbi Gurney, Portland
Why do I need digital tools to "Flip My Classroom":
The community I teach in is wonderfully diverse. Families speak 36 different languages and work hard to provide for their families with the few resources they have. Teachers use pictures, video, and hands on tools to provide background knowledge, helping content make sense. This in addition to budget cuts that have class sizes at an all time high. It is imperative to use digital tools to teach the 21st century child and the increasing number of students with special needs. We know when students move, interact, and create they learn.
Using Digital Tools:
Teacher recordings for instruction: Introductions to units, assignment directions, teach rules, model difficult math/science concepts, teach vocabulary, model experiments, guest speakers/interviews.

Student recorded video: record songs learned about difficult concepts, slide share books, project sharing.
Directions for math games, recess games. Scientific activities that make students explore, observe, and record their findings.

Projects :

Positive Behavior Intervention Support: Use pictures and video of students following common expectations for behavior in our school and classroom. Pictures posted in the room and video is shared when new students arrive and at the beginning of each term as a reminder of expectations.

GREEN SCHOOL: Reduce, Recycle, Reuse, & Conserve: Our school is a certified "Green School". Pictures and video will be used to help record our lunch recycling routines & classroom routines.
Start a COMMUNITY GREEN TIP Journal: If parents choose to participate, a backpack would go home to with one child each week. It would contains a journal, pen, and camera with cover. Families would take a picture and writes down one way they reduce, reuse, or recycle at home or see our community. Each entry will be shared on our school web site. Students can also research other ways our community is green. These can be shared and added to the journal during the year.

Our Community Garden: Our community garden is right outside our classroom door. It contains native plants and trees. We will record the seasons and life cycle through the changes we observe. Students will make a library of pictures and use them in a presentation.

Earth day: Students will work with the recorded data we have from our school and community to make a "glog" on Glogster.com. The pictures and video will be uploaded by me. There will be a template that students can choose which picture they want to use. They only need to click and download it with the graphics. A glog is like an interactive one page power point. We will share them with our families and school.
Your help can help us obtain digital tools for students to use in our project based classroom.
Materials: Whiteboards, Flash Memory Camcorders, Flip Video, Point and Shoot, Camera Bags, Flash/USB Drives, Reading, Literacy, Writing, Elementary, ESL, Books, Podcasting, Clip Art, Animation, Video Tools, Integrating Technology, Autism, Cause and Effect, Dyslexia, Speech and Language
Other Items: 5 FLIP Mino Video Cameras