Electronic
Book Contest 2000
Program used: Kid Pix
Time Needed: approximately 1 1/2 -2 hours
Activities:
1. Over several days, research China: its culture, people, language, animals, etc. with the class. Various books and activities should be used to explore this country.
2. Introduce the Chinese numbers 1-10 to the students and have them practice saying and writing them.
3. Divide students into pairs. Assign each pair a number 1-10. Each pair will write an informational sentence about some aspect of China. Students will illustrate their sentences using crayons, colored pencils, or markers. The objects drawn in their pictures will correlate to the number they were given. (45 minutes)
(One student should be assigned a cover page as well)
4. Edit students' sentences, correcting spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Complete editing while students are illustrating.
5. Using Kid Pix, each pair will type and illustrate their sentences using their rough draft copy as a guide. (40 minutes)
6. When saving work, assign each picture a number (ex: China 1, China 2, etc.) and have students save in a shared folder with assistance. When all pictures are finished, they will already be numbered and in one location. Pictures are ready to be put onto the web page in numbered order as a book.
