Inventions+Documentaries

 Fourth-grade students write a big research paper that is part of their Language Arts and History curriculum. They choose an inventor or invention to learn about and begin with inquiry. Then they use smart searching skills including kid-safe search engines to learn the answers to their research questions. To enhance this research, the students used their information to create documentaries. They used sites like Pixabay, Wpclipart, and Wikimedia Commons as well as Google images labeled for reuse to find copyright-free, public domain, or creative commons images to illustrate facts from their papers, then uploaded them to WeVideo to make the paper come alive and to share their learning.

4W's Inventions
Fourth-grade students write a big research paper that is part of their Language Arts and History curriculum. They choose an inventor or invention to learn about and begin with inquiry. Then they use smart searching skills including kid-safe search engines to learn the answers to their research questions. To enhance this research, the students used their information to create documentaries. They used sites like Pixabay , Wpclipart,  and Wikimedia Commons  as well as Google images labeled for reuse to find copyright-free, public domain, or creative commons images to illustrate facts from their papers, then uploaded them to WeVideo  to make the paper come alive and to share their learning.