We’re always excited to receive feedback, which means we’re always asking for it. Throughout the year, we’ve helped classrooms with a wide variety of projects — from podcast creation, to app prototyping, and so much more! This week, we’re showcasing what students thought of the projects we were so fortunate to help with (after all, they’re the people that these projects are for in the first place).
A Podcast to Remember 🎙️
A class of Grade 5 students had the chance to sit down with someone they know who immigrated to Canada and record an interview detailing their immigration journey. After summarising their interview, they developed it into a script, which they then recorded into audio for their podcast. Check out some examples in Volume 46.
Your Fav Book Reviewer 📚
Instead of a written book review, Grade 6 students created short and catchy videos of themselves reviewing a book they had recently read with hopes to entice someone else to read it. Give it a gander in Volume 40.
Brain Power 🧠
After researching different biomes and introducing Grade 4 students to the basics of Canva, we dug a bit deeper into its features to make their biome projects more interactive. The students ended up designing entire apps in the style of interactive displays in museums.
Tenacious as Dragons 🐲
Grade 3 students combined Science, ELA, and Art to create replicas of BC landforms out of homemade playdough for their dragons to explore! The entire project was documented and completed in Seesaw by the students – from the pictures of their playdough landforms to the students’ voice recordings as the dragons. Discover the whole story in Volume 55.
Oh, Canada 🇨🇦
A group of Grade 4 students took on the roles of virtual tour guides, educating listeners with podcasts on the culture, languages, and interesting places to visit in the many provinces of Canada. Give one a listen.
Character Building 🧗
Grade 5 students were tasked to create online profiles for a literary character. They were able to practise their perspective writing to communicate as that character and imagine what they might post online. Read all about in Volume 12.
Some Final Feedback 🥰
We count ourselves fortunate to be able to work with so many students across so many grades and schools. We constantly get to see their growth and engagement firsthand, and it keeps us motivated to continue thinking of new ideas for fun projects. And from the sounds of it, the students don’t want us to stop anytime soon!
Everyone Can Create 🎨
Speaking of kids being creative, check out this resource from Apple, Everyone Can Create: Projects. It’s a series of different fun projects your students can do at home with just an iPad. Perfect for some fun and educational screen time over the summer break!