Creativity

Have you been learning about someone you admire, or reading biographies? Here are a few creative ways to express what you have learned!

Create a fake facebook page of a character or famous person at Fakebook here: http://classtools.net/fb/home/page. See an example of George Washington's fakebook page: http://www.classtools.net/fb/41/YUFeiQ

Design your own book! Create a storybook by manipulating (moving on a story page) characters and objects: http://www.clpgh.org/kids/storymaker/

Discover the real places your favorite book characters have traveled at http://www.googlelittrips.org/

 

Do you love to write, take pictures, or be out in nature?

Write creatively using the writing prompt and photo here: http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/365/pictures.html

OR

Take some of your own photos and create writing prompts that you could use with these photos.

 

Do you love to play with words?

Learn about spoonerisms and write one of your own: http://www.fun-with-words.com/spoonerisms.html

 

Create a Word Cloud of your favorite words, passage in a story, poem, or speech!

For example, in reading you could choose one of your favorite passages from a book or poem and challenge classmates to guess what it is.

Use Wordle or Tagxedo to create your word cloud:

http://www.wordle.net/   or      http://www.tagxedo.com/

 

Design your own Glog or Prezi to share your knowledge of something of interest to you!

http://www.glogster.com   or  http://prezi.com

 

Create an Avatar to read something you have written and of which you are proud: http://www.voki.com/

 

Find silly phrases are mishead when spoken and are created from real phrases. For example, "Cry Me a River" could become "Crimany River." Create your own silly mondegreens!

http://www.fun-with-words.com/mala_mondegreens.html

 

Race the clock to write about a word! http://oneword.com/