Talking Storybooks

Students cut random pictures from magazines. In groups, students share their images with each other and explain what they liked about the picture. After creating a collage of the pictures, students tell a story about something personal...

Students communicate with Epals. They write letters with photo exchanges and create a website for presentations of 3,000 words or less and one photo. They tell their life stories and illustrate with photos in the target language. V

Middle schoolers use their personal experiences to create students's books for younger middle schoolers on topics to which they can relate. Students observe a guest speaker who talks about different formats of middle schoolers's books...

Students take digital pictures and write creative stories around them in an electronic storybook. Using WebBlender, they publish their final project as a Website. They also present their stories to students, parents, and community members.

Students identify and interpret the value of the dragonfly as a predator of the mosquito. They create their own folktales using the dragonfly or a creature of their choice to solve the malaria problem or another issue. Students also...

Students work together as a team to solve the hypothetical common problem of litter. They give examples of organizations that focus on trying to help others in significant ways (volunteers). Each group maps out their strategy, a tree...