Label Your Body

 

Grade Level: 1

Objectives

 

 

 

Materials

 

 

Prior Knowledge

  1. Motor skills to operate various handheld cameras
    1. With or without accommodation
  2. Motor skills to type on a computer
    1. With or without accommodation
  3. How to operate Kidspiration
    1. Including how to make boxes, lines, how to save, and how to print

 

Procedures

 

1.     Generate a list of body parts with students.

2.     Put the list on the board and say each word aloud. Ask students to point to the correct body parts as you name it.

3.     Give each student a copy of the Body Parts Vocabulary handout.

4.     Divide the class up into partners.

5.     Give each team time to use the digital camera to take a full-body picture of each partner.

a.     Students who are not currently using the camera will be working on the Body Parts Vocabulary Handout.

6.     When all pictures have been taken, teacher will use direct instruction with the computer desktop displaying on the overhead to show the students how to upload pictures to the computer.

7.     Once all pictures have been uploaded, each student will be given a digital copy (i.e. a CD, thumbdrive, etc.) of the picture of them.

8.     Open Kidspiration

a.     Each student on their own computer

9.      Teacher model how to import a graphic to a Kidspiration sheet.

a.     One-on-one help should be available after modeling for students who did not understand.

10. Students will then use boxes and arrows to label the body parts on their picture.

a.     The body parts that must be labeled are those that are on the Body Parts Vocabulary handout.

11. Remind them to check their spelling by referring to the Body Parts Vocabulary handout.

12. When finished labeling, instruct students to save and print their pictures.

13. Next, students will write a song about the body parts to the tune of an already existing song.

14. Once the song has been learned, the teacher will record a video of the class singing it.

15. Put students back in their pairs, and assign them each a body part.

16. Give each pair a turn with the video camera.  (pairs will be given 5 minutes and an adult escort to find one person in the building to "interview" about their assigned body part.)

a.     While waiting for the video camera, students will work in pairs on researching their assigned body part using the internet.

17. After researching, each pair will record each other (one student at a time) stating a fact about their assigned body part.

18. Teacher will edit the videos together to make one video to be shown at a school assembly and parent night.

19. Display the finished bodies around the classroom with the students' names underneath them.

 

NETS Standards:

1.     Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes: Students will be using their existing knowledge of the program Kidspiration to edit (label) a photo.

b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression: Students will be using a digital camera to take an original photograph.  Students will then add labels to this photo.

2.     Communication and Collaboration: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media: Students will be working in pairs for both the digital photography, and the video taping.  Students will also be collaborating with others in the building to make their videos.

b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats: Students will show their video to the school during an assembly, and to their parents at parents night.

3.     Research and Information Fluency: Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media: Students will use the internet to locate information on their assigned body part.

d. Process data and report results: Students will report their research   findings in a video.

 

 

EALRs K-2

 

Tech Standards

1.1: Innovate: Demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge and develop innovative products and processes using technology: Students will use creative thinking to create an original product (photo with labels, and video)

1.2: Collaborate: Use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others: Students will work in pairs when using technology for this lesson.

1.3: Investigate and Think Critically: Research, manage and evaluate information and solve problems using digital tools and resources: Students will use the internet to find information about their assigned body part.

 

Science

1.1.6: Understand characteristics of living organisms: Observe and describe characteristics of living organisms: Students will label characteristics of their own body.

1.2.8: Know the external parts of the body: Identify the external parts of the body: Students will be labeling the external body parts on a picture of themselves.

 

Reading

1.3.1: Understand and apply new vocabulary: Use oral and reading vocabulary gained by listening to and reading informational/expository text and literary/narrative text, including text from a variety of cultures and communities, in own oral and written communication: Students wil be using their new vocabulary and applying it for use in labeling their picture.

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