Website Creation with Wix.com- Iowa Cities/Towns ~ 5th/6th Grade

As a technology project for Iowa History, the students used Wix.com to create a free website of an Iowa city or town.  In addition to this technology assignment, the students also created a poster for their city and wrote a letter to the mayor of their city.  Take a look at some of the posters and websites!

Okoboji Website  

 LeMars Website

 Atlantic Website

 Waterloo Website

 Denison Website

 Fort Dodge Website

 Audubon Website

 Cedar Falls Website

Ames Website

 

Iowa City

Pella

Mason City

Community Table- 3rd/4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders used a table on MS Word to organize key words pertaining to the three types of communities.  The picture below is an example of their work:

Community Brochure- 3rd/4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders are learning about the different kinds of communities in Social Studies.  They will reinforce the concept by creating a brochure of a hypothetical community.  They will include information such as landmarks, types of housing, recreation, and transportation.

Here is a link to a good podcast that describes the three kinds of communities: Communities

Southeastern States Slideshows- 3rd & 4th Grade

The Third and Fourth Graders created Powerpoint presentations on a Southeastern state.  The 3rd Graders worked in pairs (the three girls teamed up together) and the 4th Graders worked individually.  They will present their slideshows on Monday!  Here's their work:

 

Colony Brochure- 5th & 6th Grade

The Fifth and Sixth Graders are researching one of the original 13 colonies and creating a promotional brochure on Publisher.  Below are some websites that they are using for their online research:
13 Colonies
Mr Nussbaum's website
Social Studies for Kids
History.com

State Fact Sheet- 2nd Grade

The Second Graders will create a fact sheet about a US state.  Each student chose a state to research, and they will use a search engine to find images and certain information about the state.  They will use MS Word to create the fact sheet using the information and images that they find.  The MS Word skills will include using the alignment, font and insert tools.  The states that were chosen are: Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Kentucky.