North
Canton City Schools elementary teachers explored ways to integrate
visual
learning and thinking skills into their curriculum areas during a Professional
Development study group. After becoming comfortable with Kidspiration,
they created lessons and concept maps for their classes. These lessons
are showcased to be used as a resource for educators. Please feel
free to download the files and use with your students.
For download instructions and Kidspiration
tutorials please visit the
Kidspiration
Section of the NCCS Technology Department's
online"Help Guides and Tutorials"
For
more online resources and Kidspiration activity collections
NCCS
Online Resources for Using Kidpiration in the Classroom
The Inspired Standards Match is a tool designed to help districts effectively integrate Inspiration and Kidspiration into their curricula. You will find the standards that are directly supported by Inspiration and Kidspiration are highlighted in pink. The green note annotations provide suggestions as to which Templates and Activities correspond specifically to the highlighted standard.
Download the Ohio State Standards Match PDF here.
Author: Lynn Weber, Grade 1, llw1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: As part of a unit on weather, discuss the attributes of various types of clouds. Students will recreate each type of cloud then complete the Kidspiration activity, Cloud Sort. In this activity, the student sorts pictures of clouds into the proper category: cirrus, cumulus, stratus. |
Author: Lynn Weber, Grade 1, llw1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Our class read When This Box Is Full by Patricia Lillie. In this book a child fills an empty box with items to represent each month of the year. We used this book to help us learn the months in order. We each decorated a "treasure box" for our favorite month and filled it with items to represent this special month. Many students chose their birthday month. Then,
we made a group book using the model of When This Box Is Full. In
our book we filled a soup pot. Since you would make soup in a
day instead of a year, we used times of the day in our story
instead of months. |
Author: Marilyn Hlass, Special Ed - Hearing and Vision Impaired , mah2nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Students sometimes have a difficult time understanding the liquid measurements. This activity allows the students to see and move the cups, pints, and quarts into a gallon. |
Author: Marilyn Hlass, Special Ed - Hearing and Vision Impaired , mah2nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Many deaf and ESL students have a difficult time understanding the correct word order for sentence structures. The students are given a picture. Beside each picture are three sentences. Only one sentence is in the correct word order. The student will click on the wrong answers and then click the erase button. The teacher will be able to view the picture and the sentence the student has chosen. The teacher may view the choices on the computer or the student may print out their answers. |
Author: Marilyn Hlass, Special Ed - Hearing and Vision Impaired , mah2nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: As part of the fourth grade curriculum students are expected to learn the fifty states and their capital cities. This activity is a way to practice their knowledge about the states and their capitals. |
Author: Kim Testa, Grade 1/2, kst1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: During a unit on Winter/Snow the students will discuss the activities that we enjoy both indoors and outdoors. Various trade books on the topic will be shared and extended throughout the unit. The students will complete this activity as one of the Language Arts centers.. |
Author: Kim Testa, Grade 1/2, kst1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: During a unit on Ohio, the students will learn much information about the history of Ohio and the geography of Ohio. They will learn the states that border Ohio. This activity will serve as a quick and fun assessment of geography skills. |
| 8. Comparing Forecasts to Today's Weather
Author: Kathy Remmele, Grade 1, ksr1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: The students will compare a weather forecast from the newspaper with the day’s actual weather. They will discuss the fact that forecasts are predictions based on observed and recorded data. They will discuss ways that forecasts can help them make decisions about outdoor activities. |
Author: Kathy Remmele, Grade 1, ksr1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: The students will sort solid figures by the number of faces. |
Author: Lori Anderson, Grade 5, lra1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Use this activity as a graphic organizer to help students plan a time line of their own lives. Have students choose a picture that would represent each year of their life. Then have them click on the “writing” view and type in a sentence that explains that year in their life. The students will need to save their work on a disk, or print out their final draft. |
Author: Lori Anderson, Grade 5, lra1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: This activity should be used to help students plan an outline for their report on an endangered animal. First have the students choose library books to read through to find information on their selected animal. As they come to facts or information that they need for their outline, they should type in the information in the “writing” view of this activity. The students will need to save their work on a disk or print out their final draft once they have completed each section of their outline. |
Author: Lori Anderson, Grade 5, lra1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Use this activity after all 3 classes of levers have been discussed and taught to the students. Have the students review the three classes by reading the beginning of the activity. The students will then carefully study each of the pictures and identify which class lever each picture represents. The students will need to save their work on a disk, or print out their final draft. |
| 13. Equivalent Forms of Fractions
Author: Stacy Bricker, Grade 4, sab1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: In this Kidspiration Activity the students will be observing the given fractions and matching the equal fractions. They will also be asked to add another equivalent fraction to the web. |
Author: Stacy Bricker, Grade 4, sab1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: This activity is used in a fourth grade classroom. It is a way for the students to identify challenging spelling words, as well as have the correct spellings at the tips of their fingers. It also allows the students to use several different aspects of technology that they will use many times throughout their lives. |
15. Flat Stanley - Parts of a Story PRE-VOC Activity
Author: Diane Tornero, Title One Reading - Grade 3, dlt1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Before reading Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown, students will assign words, names, and phrases to the appropriate heading of a story: Characters, Setting, Problem, Events, Solution. This activity facilitates vocabulary development and encourages students to make predictions about the story. It is used before reading, but it may be an ongoing activity as the story progresses. Students may make the necessary changes. This will be easily facilitated through a Kidspiration template. |
16. Horrible Harry and the Green Slime Character Analysis Activity
Author: Diane Tornero, Title One Reading - Grade 3, dlt1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Upon completion of reading Horrible Harry and the Green Slime book or any other Horrible Harry book, students will be able to use the Kidspiration template to complete a character analysis for one of the main characters in the book. |
17. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Barb Merrill, Grade 4, bnm1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Students will practice vocabulary and parts of speech using chosen words from the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. |
Author: Barb Merrill, Grade 4, bnm1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: As part of a government unit, discuss the purposes of different levels of government and the words associated with each level. Students will create a graphic organizer with words associated with each level |
19. Landforms and Bodies of Water
Author: Pam Tamargo, Grade 2, pit1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: As part of a class study of landforms and bodies of water in the United States, the students will move items from the custom picture library to the appropriate super sorter. |
20. Fictional Characters - Realistic or Fantasy?
Author: Pam Tamargo, Grade 2, pit1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: On completion of the Reading Unit, Snapshots, the students will be asked to sort a group of pictures into Super Groupers labeled "Realistic Characters" or "Fantasy Characters." |
21. The Solar System - Inner and Outer Planets
Author: Pam Tamargo, Grade 2, pit1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Having studied the planets, their order from the sun, and temperatures as related to the sun, the students will be asked to place pictures of the planets in the correct Super Grouper container. |
Author: Kathy Harhager, Grade 2, kjh1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Having read and studied the unit on the United States of America and its symbols, the students will match symbols with the correct vocabulary word. |
Author: Kathy Harhager, Grade 2, kjh1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Having discussed the properties of the three states of matter, the students will sort objects into the proper categories, solid, liquid, or gas. |
Author: Kathy Harhager, Grade 2, kjh1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Having read Stellaluna, by Janel Cannon, the students will classify selected animals into two groups, (1) Mammals as in the bat, Stellaluna and (2) birds. |
Author: Katie Parsons, Grade 4, kdp1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: As part of the geometry unit, discuss and look at examples of the different types of angles. After learning the names of the geometric shapes students will learn how to identify the types of angles and then complete the Kidspiration activity, Identifying Angles. |
Author: Katie Parsons, Grade 4, kdp1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: As an extension activity after reading Holes, by Louis Sachar, review cause and effect. Students then complete the Kidspiration activity Cause and Effect. |
Author: Gerilyn Shimek, Grade 1, gas1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: The children will be able to identify the given math shape. They will click and drag the shape name to the correct shape. |
Author: Gerilyn Shimek, Grade 1, gas1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: The children will create a picture graph representing their town’s weather for one week. |
29. Going on a Bear Hunt - Story Investigations
Author: Sue Oryszak, Grade 2, sao1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Students will explore story elements by reading and investigating several versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. There are three separate Kidspiration Activities provided to accompany the unit. |
30. Cultural Comparison of Native Americans and Pilgrims
Author: Jane Schultz, Grade 1, jos1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: As part of a unit on Native Americans and Pilgrims, introduce the practices and products of the two cultures. Students will build log cabins and teepees or Hogans, make costumes, use vocabulary and Native American symbols to write stories, create art products such as pinch pots and hornbooks and sample foods associated with each culture. Complete the Kidspiration sorting activity. |
Author: Jane Schultz, Grade 1, jos1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: As part of a unit on weather, discuss how water changes from liquid to a gas and back to a liquid as part of a continuous cycle. Students will conduct an experiment demonstrating that things happen to water to change its properties. Students will complete the Kidspiration activity to demonstrate their understanding of the steps of the water cycle. |
Author: Kim Kobzowicz, Grade 2, mkk1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: In the first activity the children will match the pie graphs with the name of the fraction. In the second activity the children should color part of the pictures in the rectangle to represent the fraction shown. They should also color in the pie graphs to match the fraction beside it. |
Author: Kim Kobzowicz, Grade 2, mkk1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: Discuss different types of transportation and find pictures that would fit in these categories: land, air, and water. Then write about your favorite type of transportation in each category. |
Author: Kim Kobzowicz, Grade 2, mkk1nc@viking.stark.k12.oh.us Description: This is an activity in comparing and contrasting two stories, The Three Bears and Abuelo and the Three Bears. The first story is the traditional fairy tale. The second one is a different version of the story with some Spanish words and phrases. |
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