Day 52 : Miss Tucker's 1st grade students

Today's post comes from Heather Tucker, 1st Grade Teacher at Hilliard Horizon Elementary

Exploring Changes with VoiceThread

In Social Studies, we are learning about how things have changed over time. 

Each student chose a topic they wanted wanted to explore, for example, TV, games, baby dolls, houses, schools, clothing, telephones, etc. We looked for images of each topic on the internet. This helped us compare things from the past and present and how they change over time. Some students even brought in artifacts from home, like a James Brown record! :) 

After exploring, students drew a picture of what their topic looked like in the past. Then we really had to use our creative thinking and our new knowledge to come up with a prediction of what we think each thing might look like and what it might do to help us in the future. After drawing our pictures, we wrote down a caption to go with each past, present and future picture. We used the computer webcam to take pictures of our posters and then recorded our comments. 

This is such a cool way to share our new knowledge with others!

Take a look at some of the VoiceThread projects students created: