Supplemental Activities
After completion of the Element PowerPoint, students may create a game to use with other students using information they have learned in completing the PowerPoint assignment.
The following web site is a template for ‘Are You Smarter Than A _ Grader?’
Are You Smarter Than a Sixth Grader
Students may also create unique word posters by copying and pasting words from their presentation to this site.
Wordle/Word Collages
Instructions for using Wordle for a more advanced poster.
There are lots of options after you create a basic Wordle,
Here is an alternative way to save them.
Instructions copied from http://www.goospoos.com/2010/08/word-cloud-generator/
and edited to student friendly terms.
The following web site is a template for ‘Are You Smarter Than A _ Grader?’
Are You Smarter Than a Sixth Grader
Students may also create unique word posters by copying and pasting words from their presentation to this site.
Wordle/Word Collages
Instructions for using Wordle for a more advanced poster.
There are lots of options after you create a basic Wordle,
- You can make words all-caps or all-lower case. You can filter common words like “and”, “or” etc with options provided. This filter is provided for more than 30 languages.
- There are 30 fonts provided to make the collage that suits your attitude!
- Most important is Layout option. Using this option you can decide the orientation of words. For e.g.
- Any Which Way will arrange words in random orientation.
- Horizontal will place all words in horizontal fashion.
- Mostly Horizontal will render result with most words in horizontal position.
- etc.
- It counts the word occurrence and accordingly sizes the word.
- Various color palette options are provided.
Here is an alternative way to save them.
- After making a word cloud from create tab, click on “Open in Window”
- This will open the wordle in new window which can be maximized.
- After maximizing to it full, you can take screenshot of it.
- Save that screenshot in jpg format in Microsoft Paint. You’re done.
Instructions copied from http://www.goospoos.com/2010/08/word-cloud-generator/
and edited to student friendly terms.