Grade: 4th grade
Subject: Language Arts
Topic: Collaborative Poetry
Description: Using Google Classroom, share a “refrigerator magnet” Google Slides deck and partner students two to a slide. Partners communicate via speaker notes to agree on a theme (from suggested choices in pre-teach). Using virtual magnets, students create free-verse poem collaboratively, adding magnets as needed for words not already provided.
Language Arts TEK: 4.16) Writing/Literary Texts. Students write literary texts to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas. Students are expected to: (B) write poems that convey sensory details using the conventions of poetry (e.g., rhyme, meter, patterns of verse).
Technology TEK: (2) Communication and collaboration. The student collaborates and communicates both locally and globally using digital tools and resources to reinforce and promote learning. The student is expected to: (A) use communication tools that allow for anytime, anywhere access to interact, collaborate, or publish with peers locally and globally;
4Cs: Creativity, Communication
ISTE Digital Age Learner Standards: Digital Citizen, Innovative Designer, Creative Communicator
Device Type: Laptop, Chromebook
Suggested Apps: Google Slides