The January project for my 5th grade students is to research a United States President and create a magazine cover using the website bighugelabs.com/flickr. Also, the final project submitted must have a wordle of their researched President’s speech. The following pictures are examples of their work.
Here are some areas that are researched:
Use www.wikipedia.com to find the following information:
President Name__________________
____President of the United States
Political Party__________________
Occupation__________________
Use www.brainyquotes.com to find a quote from the president.
Tip for magazine cover is to have a designated spot for the student’s name.
Use http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches to find the Inaugural Speech
Do you Wordle?
The website wordle.net is great for many creative lessons. Seasonal Wordlists, book reports, creative iron on transfers, seeking repetitive words in a paragraph are just a few of the ideas that can be used with Wordle. Wordle takes words and combines them to make a cloud or art out of the words. The words that are repeated are larger where as the words that are not used as much in the paragraph are smaller.
Tips: Put ~ between words that you want to keep together. This could help make a creative display characters for a book report.
Also, have the student type their name in at least 5 times so it becomes part of the wordle. This is for easier identification on the owner after it has been printed.
