Monday Freebies #19: My Bookcover in KidPix

Draw a cover for a classroom project or unit of inquiry or use one of Kidpix’s templates. Have students nicely mix text and pictures for an attractive design. Introduce KidPix fonts, font sizes, font colors to grade 1

Monday Freebies #25: Intro to PowerPoint–with KidPix Pictures

This year more than any before, classroom budgets have been cut making it more difficult than ever to equip the education of our children with quality teaching materials. I understand that. I teach K-8. Because of that, I’ve decided to give the lesson plans my publisher sells in the Technology Toolkit (110 Lesson Plans that I use [...]

#42: Where Did I Come From?

Students find their country of origin on Google Earth and grab a screen shot of it. Save to their computer. Import it into KidPix and add the country flag and student name. Students learn about importing data from one program to another with this project. –from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. Preview available [...]

#42: Where Did I Come From

Students find their country of origin on Google Earth and grab a screen shot of it. Save to their computer. Import it into KidPix and add the country flag and student name. Students learn about importing data from one program to another with this project.

#42: Where are my Roots?

Students find their country of origin on Google Earth and grab a screen shot of it. Save to their computer. Import it into KidPix and add the country flag and student name. Students learn about importing data from one program to another with this project.

3 Programs to Teach Architecture in First Grade

Three projects over six weeks and your students will learn about blueprints, room layout, dimensions. Plus, they’ll understand how to think about a three-dimensional object and then spatially lay it out on paper. This is challenging, but fun for first graders. Spend two weeks on each projects. Incorporate a discussion of spaces, neighborhoods, communities one [...]

FREE Lesson Plans for K-8 Technology

free lesson plans that integrate technology into science, math, language arts, spelling, writing and more

Where Would You Like to Go Today?

K-8 projects organized by software–MS Office, Google Earth, Photoshop, keyboarding, Web 2.0 and more

#43: How to Teach Geography with KidPix II

Expand or contract this lesson to adapt to many levels of learners in your class

#44: How to Teach Geography with KidPix I

Use the colors and design of KidPix to reinforce geography lessons

How to Make a Cover Page in KidPix

Multimedia made easy via KidPix for kindergarten through 2nd grade

#34: How to Teach Dolch Words with KidPix

This KidPix lesson can be simplified or expanded, depending upon your group of learners

#26: Create a Storybook in KidPix

Use KidPix drawings in a PowerPoint slideshow–easy enough for 2nd graders

#2: How to KidPix II

KidPix teaches with one of the most popular multi intelligences–art

#1: How to KidPix I

KidPix works for kids as young as 3 years old and as old as 5th grade

#26: Intro PowerPoint in Second Grade

Second graders learn to add transitions, animations, backgrounds, pictures, animated GIFs and more.

#25: Intro to PowerPoint–with KidPix Pictures

Take younger children’s KidPix drawings and make a slideshow. Next year, they’ll want to make their own.

#20: A Holiday Card in KidPix

Create a holiday card in KidPix and reinforce early writing skills while teaching mouse skills, toolbars and tool use:

#16: A Holiday Memory in Word or KidPix

Use this not only to create a gift for parents, but to practice writing skills, grammar, MS Word’s spell check. I have student compose the memory one week and we format it the next. For beginning writers, use KidPix and its text tools.

Warning: Computers can be Addicting

Here’s a great project using the popular Google Earth and KidPix. It’s geared for K-2, but older’s OK too, especially during summer. It uses Google Earth and KidPix and takes about thirty minutes:

5 Great FREE Programs for Kids

When I started as a tech teacher, I pushed my administration for lots of software. I wanted a different one for each theme–human body, space, math. Now, they’re all on the internet–for FREE–which means we can use our tech budget for doc scanners, Dragon Speak… Wait–we have no budget. Good thing I’m addicted to FREE.

Using an Internet Start Page

This is a great idea for kids. Use one of these free start pages to put everything important there for your child that’s internet-based. Mine includes oft-used websites, blog sites, a To Do list, search tools, email, a calendar of events, pictures of interest, rss feeds of interest, weather, news, a graffiti wall and more. [...]

Introduction to KidPix

This is the first lesson for any child using KidPix. I start them in Kindergarten, right after I’ve introduced the parts of the computer, mouse skills and all those little pictures (icons) on the desktop. Have your child open KidPix from the desktop. Explain a ‘splash screen’ to them. Log in with their name (good [...]