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Social Studies-Canada's North

Language Arts
ON

SocialStudies
Yes

Technology
Yes

Description
Working mainly form written directions students create a simple 5 card Stack about Canada's North using HyperStudio, World Book CD, Microsoft Works and the Internet.

MultiClassPlan
Yes

Tech Skills
A variety of skills within the HyperStudio Program are covered.

Software
HyperStudio, Microsoft Works, World Book, Internet Browser

SpecificGrade
Yes

T1
Grade Five

SubmittedBy
Leslie Gentes

E-mail: lgentes@wsd1.org

Details:

Students create a simple five card stack in HyperStudio by following the written directions that are found in the files north_1.pub, North_2.wps, north_3.pub and north_4.pub. These files are available by clicking on the following links NORTH_1.PUB, NORTH_2.WPS, NORTH_3.PUB and NORTH_4.PUB.

A small group of students searched for photos of Canada's North on the Internet and saved the photos in a folder on the shared/read only (S:\2students ) directory on the server. They kept a record of the URLs where the photos were found to use on the Credits card.

Although there are times that a technique was demonstrated visually, one of the main  goals was to have the students be able to read and follow written directions.  This also allowed students to move at their own pace in terms of the tasks that were done over a  4 week period.

Students had previously made a simple stack so they knew how to Make a Button and have it go to the appropriate card.  If your students do not already know how to do this, a lesson would have to be taught previous to beginning on how to make buttons move from one card to the next.  I usually have the students always choose the Move to Another Card in the Actions dialog box because they can visually see the card they are linking to.

Once students completed the compulsory portion of the 5 card stack, they were asked to add new cards to the stack on which  they could be creative in terms of adding more information in various forms and using some of the other HyperStudio functions.