Our Book About UsMrs. Milovich’s Second Grade

Resource Room

Table of ContentsOverview of projectWrite a story about yourselfUse the digital cameraSearch the World Wide Web for pictures about youFill in your information on your formHave fun asking questions Make some graphsAdd your information to our Power Point Slide ShowTeacher Notes

What are we going to do?We will make a class book and a class computer presentation that tells about who you are. We will find out what your favorites are. We will also find out what you don’t like!

Writing a Story About Yourself

W ho A m I?

M y F a m ily M y F a vo rites W h a t I D o n 't L ike

A S to ry A b o u t M e

Each of you will write a story telling your classmates all different things about yourself, like your birthday and what foods you hate. Then you will type it on the AlphaSmart keyboards and put it into the computer!

see attached form

Using the Digital CameraYou will learn how to turn the camera on and off. You will take pictures of each otherYou will download the pictures onto your pages on the computerYou might even play with the pictures

World Wide WebThe World Wide Web is thousands of computers that are connected togetherYou will go to a website called Google images to find pictures about yourselves that you will put on your form and on your page

Google Images

Everyone Will Have Their Own Page

After you write your stories you will put your information on a special form in a Database that I will make for you.

Click here to see the database form that you

will be type your information on!

about me.pub

We Will Have Fun Asking a Lot of Questions About Each Other Which children have birthdays in the Spring? Fall? Winter?Which children have the same favorite foods or pets?Do all the children have brothers or sisters?Which children hate ice cream?

You Will Have Fun Making Graphs

You will put your information on a computer spreadsheetWe will play with the spreadsheet to turn your information into different kinds of graphs and charts

Let’s Make A Slide ShowWhen you are done with all these tasks, you will put your story and pictures on a special computer page (like these!)We will watch our computer slide show and present it to our parents when they come for conferences

Let’s ReviewWrite a story – Use the AlphaSmarts

Take pictures with the Digital CameraSearch the World Wide Web

Fill out a Database formAsk questions with the Database

Make a Spreadsheet and lots of GraphsMake a Computer Slide Show (like this

one)

Teacher Notes• The children will work individually and in a large group to create this project during Language

Arts. Time can also be taken during Math to compare and contrast information about the children, by querying the database and working with the spreadsheet.

• This project can be done by children at a variety of levels. The teacher can create templates for each element with the specific information he/she would like to include, or the students can create all of the elements after they become familiar with the technology.

• The computer program Graph Club, which many primary teachers have access to could also be used rather then Microsoft Excel.

• The project can be put together as a large booklet as well as a Power Point presentation where each student in the class has their own page, similar to the one that was used as a template.

• Supporting Materials: Classroom ComputerAlphaSmart Keyboards to maximize timeDigital Camera and Adobe Photoshop program Microsoft Office or other word processing program

(Microsoft Publisher is for templates so that pictures can be downloaded in a specific spot and of a specific size.)