Computer projects can supplement your first grade class curriculum.
You can find hundreds of first grade computer projects that the students in your classroom can carry out online. There are educational activities for every subject, including language arts, science and social studies. You can also find many arts and crafts projects that your students can learn about online.
Diamante Poem Tool
On the Diamante Poem website, your students can write a diamond-shaped poem using nouns, adjectives and gerunds to describe one topic or two contrasting topics. As you teach your students the parts of speech, they can complete the diamante poem project to review what they have learned. They should write a noun as the topic on the first and last line of the poem (e.g., kids, children), two adjectives on the second and sixth lines (e.g., funny, happy), four nouns or a short linking phrase on the fourth line and three gerunds on the third and fifth lines of the poem (e.g., running, skipping, jumping). Your students can save, revise and print out their poem using the diamante tool.
Weather Watch --- Track Clouds
The Scholastics Weather Watch website has a number of science projects your students can carry out online. For the Track Clouds in the Sky cloud tracking project, have your students use the website to learn about the four main categories of clouds. They should then observe the sky each day for three days and draw and write a description of what they see using the Scholastics Cloud Observation PDF Form. They then take the Track Clouds in the Sky online quiz to test their observation skills and cloud knowledge.
Make a Kite
National Geographic Kids offers a number of projects, including arts and crafts, for your students. For the Make a Kite project, your students will follow the website instructions using everyday kitchen supplies, including plastic trash bags, wooden dowels, string, markers and ribbon for a tail to make their own kites. They will cut out and measure the plastic bag, then add the dowels to make a frame. Have them decorate the kite with their markers and add the string and the tail --- then wait for a windy day to fly their kites.
Abraham Lincoln Lesson and Quiz
Your students can learn about the life of President Abraham Lincoln as they carry out a project created by a first grade class in Lincoln City, Indiana. Have your students visit website links and view a picture gallery and animation about Lincoln. Your students should also carry out activities, including a treasure hunt, and visit the "Ask Mr. Lincoln" website to ask a question. The website also offers a quiz on Lincoln's early life, and your students can view the awards that the first grade class and teacher won for their work on this project.
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