Clouds - "It Looked Like Spilt Milk"
Goals and objectives:
Assessment: Observe and note student participation in the reading of the story. Observe and note student participation, descriptions, and connections to the story during the cloud observation section of the activity. Assess each child's completed project for connections to the story, details, drawing that adds to the explanation, and speaking skills. |
Tips for Teachers
The use of the Educreations Interactive Whiteboard app allows students to tell about what they see, explaining details and expressing their own ideas about the clouds. Following the lesson, you might have the students use the cloud photos in a drawing application such as Draw & Color as a center choice. A writing activity could also expand this activity using the photo drawings and adding text that follows the pattern of the original story, “Sometimes it looked like a _______. But it wasn’t a _________.” The student-created pages may then be made into a class book or classroom display.
Resources:
Educreations, Inc. (2014, May 8). Educreations Interactive Whiteboard (Version 1.5.8) [Mobile Application Software]. Retrieved from: http://www.apple.com/itunes/. Shaw, C. G., & Harper & Row, Publishers. (1947). It looked like spilt milk. New York: Harper & Row. Example:
Go to this link to view a recorded example of a cloud project: http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/clouds/22737226/?s=K39Bjt&ref=app |