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,

• 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.

One biggest problem about Wordle is, you can not save the word cloud as an image!

  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.