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Kid Pix-Ideas From Geneva
Grades 1-6
At a staff workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, educators
came up with the following ideas for use of Kid Pix. Some of these ideas
are being used with the English Language Special Education Association
(ELSEA) students. These are children with severe learning disabilities
who are working on some of the activities such as the alphabet book. So
far the program is going wonderfully.
Language Arts
- Stamp pictures, write sentences to describe, use microphone
to record someone reading your sentence and put it together into a SlideShow.
- Make an Animated Alphabet Book with Kid Pix and the SlideShow.
- Make and print out a dictionary
- Have students write and record their own ColorMe Pictures
for other students to use.
Art
- Create self portraits with recorded "Hello,"
put into a SlideShow for a parents' night, or use as a stand alone "class
who's who" book
- Use the shapes to create tessellations (small squares,
perhaps arranged in a mosaic).
- Make pattern pictures with the stamps
Math
- Use the stamp that looks like dice to create math problems.
(One boy with learning disabilities, for example, made some pages with
the dice randomly dropped, and then found the numbers to go with them.
Finally, he stamped the + and = signs and then stamped the answers on the
page.)
- Stamp numbers and then use the picture stamps to show
quantity.
Reading
- Use the ColorMe pictures for reading comprehension.
- Read a SlideShow book someone else created.
Social Studies
- Draw and paint a picture of your home.
- Draw a map of your home, room, school, neighborhood,
etc.
- Use the KidArt Maps software that works with Kid Pix
to create maps for projects, etc.
- Record neighborhood sounds with a portable recorder and
then make a picture of the sound and import the sound you recorded. Use
the pictures to create a visual and auditory picture of where you live.
- Make a SlideShow of your school (or neighborhood, field
trip, farm animals, city, country, a zoo, etc.).
Drama
- Make parts (face, features, hands, etc.) for paper bag
puppets.
Science
- Illustrate a science experiment and record the steps
on several Kid Pix pages and then make a SlideShow to demonstrate your
experiment to others
- Draw a picture of the different steps for plant growth
and make a "quick"
SlideShow to animate the growth.
Music
Make programs and posters for school musical events
During the staff workshop the teachers were amazed at the possibilities,
and really enjoyed the program themselves. Even "non-techies"
who get the jitters just thinking about technology integration had fun
and began to see the endless possibilities for this program and the programs
that support it.
Suggestions for Parents:
For parents who have a computer, printer, and Kid Pix at home, all
of the suggested activities may be carried out.
Submitted By:
Diane Simmons Tomczak
Sous Servaz 17, CH-1266
Duillier, Switzerland
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