First Grade
First Grade is where students take their first steps with research, PowerPoint, and word processing. Here are the projects we do through the year.
What we do in First Grade
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Research
Salmon Research
As the kids are studying salmon in their classrooms, we use some of these activities to build their interest and understanding in the lab.
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Digital Skills
Learning Word Processing
Six short, fun projects that teach students to type and format text, from a name poster to a party invitation. A great warm-up for the Frog Life Cycle Booklet.
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Research
Weather Activities
Students look up the weather for places in their own state, build a weather map for any state, and record their own TV-style weather report.
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Creativity
Frog Life Cycle Booklet
This is a fun project done at the end of the year to give the kids a good introduction to word processing. We do this during the First Grade unit on ponds.
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Research
Planets Project
I always like to start First Grade students on their first real project that requires them to research a topic using one internet site and then build a page in Google Slides or PowerPoint using that information. I combine the pages into a book that the kids keep in their classroom.
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Research
Arctic Animals
This is the first organized research project I do with First Grade students, usually in December or the first thing in January. The kids always want to print pictures, so I show them how to copy and paste lots of pictures into one slide and print those out.
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