3rd Grade Pumpkin Facebook
Third graders at Davis Elementary have been working on pumpkin creative writing projects. Each student decorated a pumpkin like a story character and chose from a variety of suggested ideas for writing about their pumpkin (journal, interview, comic, etc). The 3rd grade teachers wanted a technology activity as one of the choices, and Ms. Parkinson came up with the Facebook idea. I developed a template that you can download here and gave a copy to each student through Google classroom. The students right clicked on an image, chose “Replace image,” then clicked “Take a snapshot.” This opens the webcam so students could take a photo of their pumpkin. Next they typed their pumpkin’s name and some information about their pumpkin. They also typed a post that their pumpkin would have made on Facebook. Their favorite part was walking around taking pictures of the other pumpkins in the same way as they took the first picture and adding posts from their pumpkin “friends.” You can see some student samples by clicking here.