The new Kid Pix Deluxe 4 for Schools has been designed with extensive input from teachers and students to be the best personal productivity and creativity tool for every K–8 classroom. It combines the realistic art tools and powerful graphic handling capability of Kid Pix Deluxe 3 with the design simplicity, ease-ofuse, and Spanish language support of Kid Pix Studio Deluxe; and includes a powerful new set of Teacher Tools.Now it’s even easier to inspire creativity and empower learning throughout your curriculum.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Develops creative skills at every ability level
• Builds skills in organization and presentation of ideas
• Enriches learning across the curriculum by making it more fun and exciting
• Encourages the integration of technology into the teaching and learning process
• Develops skills needed to meet National Education Technology Standards
• Documents learning across the curriculum
TEACHER TOOLS:
Kid Pix Deluxe 4 for Schools is designed expressly for the classroom, with enhanced teacher functionality not available in previous versions, including the ability to publish teacher-created project templates to the Idea Machine, control graphic libraries, and
even add instructions. School Versions come packaged with a take-home program CD for training and lesson planning, and a Teacher Resource Guide that includes:
• 30 cross-curricular lesson plans for grades K–8
• Curriculum matrix
• Complete graphical index of all Rubber Stamps
• User tips, teacher tips, tutorials, and more
Minimum system requirements: Windows® 98se,ME, 2000, XP, 233 MHz processor or faster, 64 MB RAM, 500 MB hard disk, 4X CD-ROM drive or faster, 800 x 600 display, 16-bit color
Mac OS 8.6-9.2.2 and Mac OS 10.2+, G3 processor or faster, 64 MB RAM, 500 MB hard disk space for full installation, 4X CD-ROM drive, 800 x 600 display
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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| PhotoTalk! |
K to 12 |
| Images communicate without written or spoken speech. Linking images to simple text in the target language is a powerful tool for helping second language learners speak and read! |
| Van Gogh Self-Portrait |
7 to 10 |
| Students will create a self-portrait in the style of Van Gogh. |
| Promoting Reading Posters |
9 to 12 |
| Students are featured on large posters endorsing a novel for reading. Posters are student generated and posted throughout the school. |
| Reflective Decoupage |
7 to 12 |
| Cameras and art go hand and hand way beyond pictures and portraits, right? In this project, the cameras are going to help our students produce their reflective art through decoupage! |
| Photo-Documenting Earth Art |
K to 6 |
| The students will create temporary, outdoor sculptures from found objects in nature. They will chronicle the creative process through sketches, journals, and photographs for use in a published class book. |
| Claymation Video Lessons |
5 to 12 |
| Students will create simple 3D oil-based clay characters, which will move through 2D student-created environments(stop-action videography). Students will narrate the stories thus created. |
| The Autobiography of a Middle School |
6 to 8 |
| The multidisciplinary project would use the Olympus Digital Cameras and Tool Factory Software to help define and build school unity, self-esteem, and culture through student-made pictures, essays, biographies, and art. The final goal of this project will be an autobiographical photo-essay slide show that the student council will present to their peers, parents, faculty, and school board at their eighth grade graduation ceremony. |
| WCCS News 78 Investigative Report |
K to 8 |
| Several television stations in the St. Louis metropolitan area feature a news investigative reporter who acts on tips received from local viewers. The West County Christian School seventh/eighth grade students will research/investigate a news tip, send their own news investigative team to the site to document digitally their findings, write the script to produce a news report, and then videotape that presentation. |
| Producing a Franchise to encourage global awareness, increased, informed decision making about health, peer relationships and education. |
7 to 8 |
| The students will determine categories of franchises from which to work out media productions for weekly broadcasts on our school news show. |
| The Power of Images |
9 to 12 |
| A 2 minute Multi-media presentation using colors, textures,images,drawings, photographs, video clips, etc. To portray a political or social issue in the school, community or country. |
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