Process: Content Focus

E-scrapbooking activities are effective across the curriculum. Seek ways that e-scrapbooking can be incorporated into 21st century learning and the "new literacies" including historical, cultural, mathematical, political, musical, artistic, and environmental literacy. Use artifacts, photographs, and virtual trips to get students excited about escrapbooking.

Explore the many ways that students can express their understandings. Use the tools you have. The ancient residents of the southwest didn't make scrapbooks. Instead, they shared their understanding of the world through rock art. What tools do you have in your home and classroom to create?

English and Language Arts
As you explore e-scrapbooking possibilities for English and Language Arts consider the following topics.

• Argumentative (i.e., logical defense)
• Autobiographies and Biographies (i.e., authors, famous characters)
• Capitalization. Capitalize correctly geographical names, holidays, historical periods, and special events. (IN Standard LA 3.6.7)
• Descriptive Writing (i.e., sensory). Use words to create a picture in the mind of your readers by incorporating the use of senses (i.e., see, hear, touch, taste, smell) and emotions (i.e., fear, sadness, happiness). Start with a photo and write how you feel. Write about the setting, people, and action. Start with a photo. Write imaginary, alternative endings for the the situation.
• Dialogue Writing. Select a photo containing people. Write dialogue for the people in the photo.
• Directions and Sequencing Writing
• Expository Writing (i.e., informational). Use words to teach the reader something new. Write about how to ride a bike, make a sandwich, or use a lever. Teach others about a family tradition or science concept. Use photos to illustrate your tutorial.
• Expository Writing (i.e., informational). Use words to teach the reader something new. Write about how to ride a bike, make a sandwich, or use a lever. Teach others about a family tradition or science concept. Use photos to illustrate your tutorial.
Expressive Writing
• Genres of Literature (i.e., Tall tales, folktales, folklore, fact/fiction, movie Big Fish)
• Grammar
• Informative Writing
• Inquiry/Process
• Literary Criticism
• Narrative (i.e., stories, creative writing, virtual field trip). Use words to tell a story. Explain what happens step by step. Start with a photo and write about the action. Take the reader through what happened during the event shown in the photo. Create your own graphic novel using photos and your own narrative.
• Oral Presentations. Share scrapbooks including a beginning, middle, and end. (IN Standard LA 3.7.6, 3.7.8)
• Persuasive Writing (i.e., emotional appeals). Use words to express an opinion and provide evidence and reasons that support your perspective. Write about your favorite book, author, subject, or other topic. Use photos to illustrate your ideas.
• Punctuation. Use commas in dates, locations, address, and series. (IN Standard LA 3.6.6)
• Sentences. Create titles that are interrogative or exclamatory.
  Standard LA 3.6.2 Write correctly complete sentences of statement, command, question, or exclamation, with final punctuation (i.e., Declarative: This tastes very good.; Imperative: Please take your seats.; Interrogative: Are we there yet?; Exclamatory: It’s a home run!).
• Spelling
• Synonyms (same meaning), Antonyms (opposite meaning), Homophones (sounds same, different meanings), and Homographs (spelled same, different meanings). Provide lots of visuals and ask students to create a scrapbook using synonyms and antonyms "at the zoo," "at my house," "in my school". (IN Standard LA 3.1.4)
• Technical Writing
• Vocabulary Words. Write and illustrate an abstract concept, key science term, or other word.

As you design projects and lessons, consider the following key ideas:

• Audience - consider the intended reader of the e-scrapbook
• Standards:
  • Focus on basic features of words: word parts, patterns, relationships, and origins.
  • Focus on asking questions; making predictions; and identifying and analyzing structure, organization, perspective, and purpose.
  • Focus on identifying story elements such as character, theme, plot, and setting, and making connections and comparisons across texts.
  • Focus on mechanics of writing such as spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structure.
  • Focus on speaking skills.
• Lessons:
  • Making Connections with Resource-Based Learning by Sandra White and Joanne Beltramini (PDF document

Some online tools can provide interesting resources for e-scrapbooks. Incorporate the following ideas and resources into your project:

• Figurative Language. For ideas, go to 42explore: Figurative Language.

Fine Arts
As you explore e-scrapbooking possibilities for Fine Arts consider the following topics.

• Compare an artist's work over a lifetime
• Apply the color wheel in creating scrapbook pages.

Math
As you explore e-scrapbooking possibilities for Math consider the following topics.

• Everyday math
• Formulas
• People (i.e., Newton, Pythagoras)
• Theories
• Measurement. Use specific shapes and sizes on scrapbook pages. Write about how each shape was used on the page.
  Establish borders a specific size. (IN Standard Math 3.5.1) Measure line segments to the nearest half-inch.
  Select and use shapes on page. Take photographs that reflect shapes in nature and life. (IN Standard Math 4.4.3) Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms*, rhombuses*, and trapezoids*, using appropriate mathematical tools and technology.
  Create e-mats for photos. (IN Standard Math 5.4.1) Measure, identify, and draw angles, perpendicular and parallel lines, rectangles, triangles, and circles by using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, compass, protractor, appropriate technology, media tools).
  Create balanced shapes on the page by making two identical polygons. (IN Standard Math 5.4.3) Identify congruent* triangles and justify your decisions by referring to sides and angles.
  Create similar polygons. (IN Standard Math 6.4.5) Identify and draw two-dimensional shapes that are similar*.
  Example: Draw a rectangle similar to a given rectangle, but twice the size.
  Example: In a collection of triangles, pick out those that are the same shape and size and explain your decisions.
  Example: Draw a rectangle with sides 5 in and 3 in.
  Draw and reflect shapes on the page. (IN Standard Math 6.4.6) Draw the translation (slide) and reflection (flip) of shapes.
  Example: Draw a square and then slide it 3 inches horizontally across your page. Draw the new square in a different color.
• Data Analysis and Probability
• Project Idea: When I was young, I used to cut things out of the magazines and catalogs. I can do the same thing today using Froogle and other online tools. I can identify costs, create graphs, interpret results, and do the math

Some online tools can provide interesting resources for e-scrapbooks. Incorporate the following ideas and resources into your project:

• Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Messages. For ideas, go to 42explore: Codes, Ciphers, & Secret Messages.
• Fractals. For ideas, go to 42explore: Fractals.
• Geometric Shapes. For ideas, go to 42explore: Geometric Shapes & Figures.
• Number Systems. For ideas, go to 42expore: Number Systems.
• Patterns. Choose a photo with a pattern and write a poem in a particular pattern. For ideas, go to 42explore: Patterns.
• Tessellations. For ideas, go to 42explore: Tessellations.

 

Science
As you explore e-scrapbooking possibilities for science consider the following topics.

• Create pages focusing on tools and how they affect the way we live. Use photos taken by students. Interview people about how they use these tools. (IN Standard Science 3.1.6) Give examples of how tools, such as automobiles, computers, and electric motors, have affected the way we live.
• Create pages based on groups of objects or creatures (i.e., insects, reptiles). (IN Standard Science 3.4.1) Demonstrate that a great variety of living things can be sorted into groups in many ways using various features, such as how they look, where they live, and how they act, to decide which things belong to which group.
• Create pages with photos taken by students. Write about the information they gather. (IN Standard Science 4.1.5) Demonstrate how measuring instruments, such as microscopes, telescopes, and cameras, can be used to gather accurate information for making scientific comparisons of objects and events. Note that measuring instruments, such as rulers, can also be used for designing and constructing things that will work properly.
• Create pages focusing on the places scientists work. (IN Standard Science 6.1.5) Identify places where scientists work, including offices, classrooms, laboratories, farms, factories, and natural field settings ranging from space to the ocean floor.
• Create pages that visually represent the product and journal the comparisons. (IN Standard Science 6.2.9) Compare consumer products, such as generic and brand-name products, and consider reasonable personal trade-offs among them on the basis of features, performance, durability, and costs.
• Create pages that demonstrate how the movement of the earth impacts weather patterns and seasons. (IN Standard Science 6.3.5) Use models or drawings to explain that Earth has different seasons and weather patterns because it turns daily on an axis that is tilted relative to the plane of Earth’s yearly orbit around the sun. Know that because of this, sunlight falls more intensely on different parts of Earth during the year (the accompanying greater length of days also has an effect) and the difference in heating produces seasons and weather patterns.
• Topics:
• Share scientific inquiry experiences
• Lesson Ideas:
  • Bacteria from Discovery School
  • Human Body from Discovery School
  • Oceans from Discovery School
  • Weather from Discovery School
• Standards:
  • Focus on Physical Science - how all natural objects, events, and processes are connected to each other. Try the following comparisons: river vs stream; lake vs pond; peninsula vs island; march, wetland, bog, or swamp; mesa, spire, or butte
  • Focus on Life Science - how living things function and how they interact with one another and their environment
  • Focus on common themes across science, math, and technology
  • Focus on historical perspectives related to scientific enterprise

Social Studies: General
Geography, history, economics, and other social studies areas all contains interesting data, ideas, and information that would be useful scrapbook projects.

• Create pages that visually describe where American Indians and European settlers lived. (IN Standard Social Studies 3.1.1) Describe American Indian groups who lived in the region when European settlers arrived.
• Create pages focusing on the lives of an early founder or settler in America. (IN Standard Social Studies 3.1.2) Explain why and how the local community was established and identify founders and early settlers.
• Create pages focusing on the sequence of a local event. (IN Standard Social Studies 3.1.5) Develop simple timelines of events in the local communities. Example: Use a school newsletter or local newspaper to make a timeline of current events.
• Create pages the use maps of North America. (IN Standard Social Studies 3.3.1) Distinguish between physical and political features on maps and globes and label a map of North America identifying countries, oceans, major rivers, the Great Lakes, and mountain ranges. Locate the United States, Indiana, and the local community.
• Create pages that focus on key features of the state and national map. (IN Standard Social Studies 4.3.4) Locate Indiana on a map of the United States; indicate the state capital, major cities, and rivers in Indiana; and be able to place these on a blank map of the state.
• Create a page focusing on an entrepreneur. (IN Standard Social Studies 4.4.7) Identify entrepreneurs* who have influenced Indiana and the local community. Example: the Studebaker brothers, Madam C.J. Walker, Eli Lilly, and Marie Webster.
• Create pages on cultural patterns and compare these among students. Create pages that reflect these comparisons. (IN Standard Social Studies 6.3.10) Compare and contrast cultural patterns — such as language, religion, and ethnicity — in various parts of Europe; the Caribbean; and North, South, and Central America.

Social Studies: History
History is about facts, storytelling and perspective. It involves looking through the eyes of the writer or the person who lived an experience. The key is bringing the time alive. What are the value words associated with historical events? What is the fact and fiction of an event? What is historical fiction and how does it relate to historical fact? What's the role of the historian and author?

• Across the Generations: Sharing History: A Legacy of Love
• Topics
  • Civics
  • Communities
  • Cultural events, holidays, traditions
  • Economics
  • Family history and heritage
  • Geography
  • Historical Topics: music, fashion
  • State history
  • National history: Civil War, WWI, WWII
  • World history

• Geography Lessons
  • Polar Expedition (Grades 6-8) from Discovery School
  • Turmoil in 20th-Century Europe (Grades 6-8) from Discovery School
• History Lessons
  • Revolution: The Call to Battle (grades 9-12) from Discovery School

 

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