![]() ![]() They get printed in color, cut down to the size of an actual collector’s card, folded in half so the information in the second column is on the back, and then I laminate all the cards so they’ve shiney and almost professional looking. They have a blast doing it, and afterwards they paste the image they’ve created into a word document where they type up the information in a two column format. They get to cut off the explorers’ heads (one of my favorite days of the year because I get them excited about “chopping off heads”), and then stretch, scale, move, and otherwise alter the image to make it appear as though that explorer is a professional wrestler, baseball player, or other sports star. ![]() Each student gets a chance to use GIMP, an open source equivalent of Photoshop, to practice their graphical arts skills. I scanned and found a bunch of sports cards and then downloaded explorer photos. Once they’ve gone through the webquest and have all of the information for their explorer I have them do a little bit of photo editing. I found a bunch of kid-friendly research sites (including Enchanted Learning) because I don’t see the students for enough time to let them use search engines to find the information themselves. I actually won a grant from MACUL for the webquest I put together about these Explorer Baseball Cards, but I realized this week that I hadn’t yet talked about it here on my site. By giving them time in technology to work on this project they are exposed to other explorers that aren’t in their text like Leif Erickson and John Cabot.įind more photos like this on MACUL Space ![]() The idea is simple enough since they have limited time in their classrooms to study the explorers, they can only cover a few. Wanting to spice up the rather dry text books (except for Howard Zinn’s amazing recounting of actual events and acts committed by Columbus), I decided to have the 5th graders create tradeable collector’s cards of various explorers. Each fall (usually around October), 5th graders in Michigan study European Explorers, the discovery of the New World, and early explorations. For the past 4 years I’ve managed to slowly improve upon an integrated Social Studies project with my 5th graders. ![]()
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