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This is Our School (Community Exchange)

Author: Greg Gaiera
Grade Level(s): 3-5
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Lesson Objective

Students from Taiwan and California will co-produce google slideshows that describe their school and a typical school day.

Students will use a top hat organizer to compare and contrast their schools.

Overview

Small groups of students will be given access to their own copied “This is Our School” google slide template. Students can either be  given access to a device to take pictures of their campus and the people on it or the classroom teacher can take pictures and share them with students. Taiwan students will finish the Taiwan slides and US  students will finish the US slides by writing sentences describing their school community and inserting appropriate photos. After the slide show is complete, students can compare and contrast their schools using the top hat graphic organizer.

Preparation

1. Students should be familiar with the basic functions of Google Slides.

2. Students should know how to use Google Translate. Watch the “How to Use Google Translate” video here.

3. Students should be in a Google Classroom with you as their teacher

4.  Copy the Google Slide template enough times so your students will be in groups of 2-4 students per slideshow.

5. In Google Classroom,  assign a copied slide deck to individual student teams by making it an attachment on their google classroom assignment.

6. Each slide deck should have the names of the students that are working on that slideshow in the title.

7. Copy and share the photo planning document with each group of students..

8. Get the email addresses of your partner teacher’s students and invite them to your Google Classroom.

 

Day 1 Plan photos (20 Minutes)

1.Introduce slideshow template  to student groups.

2. Students review the subject matter of each slide.

3. Student teams can plan out the photos and sentences for the slideshow on this document.

 

Day 2: Taking Photos / Writing First Draft Sentences (30 minutes class time / 1.5 hours after school)

1. Student teams use iPads, phones, or laptops to take pictures of the school community.

2. Other team members will write first draft complete sentences on the slide deck that explain the photos.

3. Groups can switch between taking photos to writing sentences for different slides so they get a chance to do both.

4. Students give devices to the teacher.

4.  Teacher uploads photos to the student computers after school and places them in the students’  Google Classrooms

5.  Teacher suggests corrections for sentence errors on  the planning document

OR
1. Before Day 2 the classroom teacher takes all of the necessary pictures and shares them with  the students.

2. Teacher suggests corrections for sentence errors on  the planning document.

Day 3: Uploading photos to the Google Slideshow and writing sentences (30-60 minutes)

1. Students upload teacher photos from Google Classroom to their Google Slide deck on the appropriate slide

2. Students copy and paste corrected sentences to their Google Slide deck from their planning document

Day 4. (After both schools have completed the slideshow) (30 minutes)

1. Students view completed slide show and take notes about the similarities and differences between the schools

2. Students complete a compare and contrast of the two schools using a printed copy of the top hat organizer or complete it digitally using this one.

Materials

  1. Cameras (ipads or laptops with cameras could work as well).
  2. Student access to school campus.
  3. Copied version of the Google Slide “This is Our School” template.
  4. Access to google translate.
  5. A google classroom account for your students. You will invite Taiwanese students to this classroom as well
  6. Photo Planning document.
  7. Digital version of top hat organizer
  8. Hard copy version of top hat organizer
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