Title: Barnyard Riddles - A Class Project
Grade Level:
4th grade and up

Curriculum Areas:
Writing, Composing, Editing, Organizational, & Revising Skills

Tools
:
Computer Program: Kid Pix Mac/Win
Digital Camera or 35 mm camera, Scanner

Research:
1. Brainstorm a list of barnyard animals. Write these animals on a chart.
Students sign up for an animal.
2. Look up riddles (using riddle books) about animals or make one up.
Review what constitutes a riddle.


Goal: To introduce the organization and development of a class slide show. The students will create their backgrounds, import graphics, clip art, kid pix stamps, photos, and finally type their riddle.

Objectives:
1.
Students will discuss typical barnyard animals.
2. Students will learn to develop a kid pix screen.
3. Students will learn to find appropriate graphics/drawings to coordinate with
riddle.
4. Students will learn to incorporate other technologies (digital photos, sound and
recordings (music CDs)) and scanning, into the slide show.
5. Students learn to coordinate and organize ideas.

Procedure
:
1. Students will brainstorm a huge list of barnyard animals.
2. Teacher will introduce the program, Kid Pix, to entire class using
projection device, detailing with an example of a well developed screen and then a slide show.
3. Students will use a rough draft (planning) sheet in order to organize ideas.
4. Students are ready to go to the computers, in pairs to work from their planning sheets.
5. Students will develop a single screen, design a drawing, and write in the text (riddle).
6. As the students continue to design and write, screens can be added at any time.

Related Activities:
This idea can be applied to designing a slide show for any purpose. Field trips, class night, graduation, school play, volunteers thank you, are all good examples of typical slide shows.

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