5th Grade Book Trailers

  

Our fifth graders had a 20 book reading challenge this year. At the end of the year-- students picked their favorite book to create a book trailer for.

Students previewed book trailers and came up with a criteria of what makes a good book trailer. In class, students mapped out their story and wrote a script for their book trailer. We then used our scripts to create a story board for our book trailer.

In library, I taught students about why citing images is important and then taught students how to find images and cite our images citations.

Students then learned how to create iMovies and created a book trailer. Check out our work! 

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3rd Grade Podcasts

In 3rd grade students researched people that changed history in class. Each class practiced doing research on some history makers-- then students picked a person they were interested in researching. 

In library, we learned about podcasts and what makes them enjoyable to listen to. Students spent a week listening to podcasts and brainstormed what they liked about listening. The following week, students learned about the structure of a podcast. They discovered that podcasts usually: 

• Have a catchy introduction 
• Give the host's same 
• Give the name of the podcast 
• What we are going to talk about today
• Information about topic 
• Give information about your topic 
• Conclusion 
• Thank the audience 
• Ask audience to join next time 

We then recorded our podcasts and added music using the app PODBEAN

CHECK OUT OUR AMAZING WORK:

History Mystery
3 Ostendorf

Bros' Biographies
3 Bros
 

Secrets of History
3 Hessler