Students selected biographies from the library on a person of their choice and started reading about their person during class time and at home for homework. Each student was taken on to the internet and conducted a search to find a picture of their person or any information they could include in their poster. Students were taught how to copy the picture from the internet and how to enlarge it by taking it into Claris Works. Students are completing their projects at home as part of their homework assignment. Student included something from the computer network on their poster.
Poster is legible.
By adding the use of the internet, students experienced the power and usefulness of technology. They enjoyed searching using Yahoo for kids and were very excited when they could find a picture of their person. None of them had experience copying and enlarging this image in a Claris Works document. The slide show came about as an extension. It was one of the kid's ideas to create a classrom slide show as I was taking down the posters the class created.