First Grade

Salmon Research

As the kids are studying salmon in their classrooms, we use some of these activities to build their interest and understanding in the lab.

Learning Word Processing

These short activities have proven to be a fun way to get kids started using a word processor. This is usually the second to last big activity of the year and gets the kids ready for the Frog Life Cycle Booklet.

Weather Activities

In this project kids research the weather in four cities in Washington State, then use Clicker 5 and Clicker Paint to create a weather map from their data. Kids who want to can record a weather report using their map.

Frog Life Cycle Booklet

This is a fun project done at the end of the year to give the kids a good introduction to word processing. We do this during the First Grade unit on ponds.

Planets Project

I always like to start First Grade students on their first real project that requires them to research a topic using one internet site and then build a PowerPoint slide using that information. I combine the pages into a book that the kids keep in their classroom.

Arctic Animals

This is the first organized research project I do with First Grade students, usually in December or the first thing in January. The kids always want to print pictures, so I show them how to copy and paste lots of pictures into one PowerPoint slide and print those out.

Parts of the Computer

WeDo Robotics