Acer Laptop Tour

Just like we give the students a "tour" of their textbook at the beginning of the year, Carissa Shaw and I created a tour of their new laptops.

Laptop Tour

Parts of Speech Boot Camp

This lesson was created by Kristy Kimball at AEW for 7th graders but it can be easily adapted for 6th grade students!

Parts of Speech Boot Camp

Using Padlet to Teach Image Citation

Our students need to be able to find, use, and cite copyright-friendly images in their projects. You can use Padlet, a free, online bulletin board, to help them learn how to do this.

Depending on the age of the students, you can modify the requirements for citing the images you find. Ideally, you should include the following (or as many of them as you can find for your image):

• Title of the image
• Author
• Source
• License (Creative Commons type, note that the image is public domain, or a statement that the image is used with permission)

The example below was created by 3rd grade students. They were only instructed to include the photographer's name below their own. Older students would of course be asked to include more complete information.

Created with Padlet

Lesson steps:

1. Before the lesson, create a Padlet wall where the information will be posted. 
2. Discuss the importance of citing sources for anything students have not created themselves. Explain the citation format you want students to use.
3. Instruct students to find an image by using search.creativecommons.org. This will ensure that any media they find should be licensed for reuse. The students doing the project above looked for landforms and the natural environment.
4. Students copy the image url.
5. On the Padlet wall, students double click to add a note. They paste in the url and add the citation information.

For more specific information about image citation, see this page on the Creative Commons wiki.