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Newspaper Tools

Fodey To make the newspaper graphic.

**TEACHER RESOURCES FOR DIGITAL LEARNING DAY**

Have students use Spelling City to learn their spelling words, vocabulary words, or site words through games, practice, and quizzes. Spelling City is a free resource for teachers.

Brain POP Use Brain POP to show short, animated videos as a lesson opener.

Create a game show for your students to participate in as a review for an upcoming assessment. This site offers free templates.

Use Dove Whisper as a computer center in your classroom. This site contains Internet games for all subjects.

Have students create a comic strip using Make Beliefs Comix. Students can use this tool to show main idea, sequencing, predictions, and more!

Introduce a new unit in reading with a vocabulary word cloud. Have the students guess what the unit/story will be about. Set a purpose for learning with Wordle or other word clouds.

Have students create a time line to have a visual representation.

Use Class Tools to randomly generate names, to show a countdown timer, to find graphic organizers, to create timelines, play puzzles and access other neat tools.

Have students create their "Wild Self". Use their creations for an intro into animal adaptations and habitats in science, or use them as a creative writing prompt.

Let students learn new vocabulary words and help others at the same time. Go to Free Rice and practice challenging vocabulary!

Create motivational posters for print or to put up on the projector. Big Huge Lab has great projects for photos.

**Using a Digital Camera OR Flip Video Cameras in the Classroom**

Zoom in on an object until you are unable to tell what it is. Have students guess the mystery object as a lesson introduction or a creative writing prompt.

Send students in small groups around the school on a scavenger hunt. Students could take pictures of objects that begin with each letter of the alphabet and make a digital ABC book. Fourth graders may take pictures of objects that make acute, right and obtuse angles.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Use a series of pictures to give steps and visual instructions.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Video tape students preforming Reader's Theater plays.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Record "How to" demonstration videos of students helping others learn something.

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