{"id":3749,"date":"2018-03-07T22:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T02:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2018-09-15T18:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T22:22:36","slug":"3rd-grade-fractions-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3749","title":{"rendered":"3rd Grade Fractions Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?attachment_id=3751\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-14-at-10.32.43-PM-272x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-14-at-10.32.43-PM-272x300.png 272w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-14-at-10.32.43-PM.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a>Third graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about fractions as parts of a whole and as parts of a group (SOL3.3). Today students in Ms. Forrester&#8217;s class made fractions books to show examples of each type using <a href=\"http:\/\/bookcreator.com\">BookCreator<\/a>. First, Ms. Forrester set up her account and gave the access code to her students. Once they were logged into her class, I showed them how to create a new book. We all picked the square size since we will be combining our individual books into one class book. On the cover of our book, we typed a creative title, picked a background color, and added our photo using the built-in webcam feature. On the next page, we illustrated a fraction as part of a group using the shapes tool. We made several shapes one color and other shapes a different color. Then we typed a sentence identifying the fraction. I asked them to illustrate a fraction as part of a group on the last page. They used the image search feature to find a photo of an object that could be divided into parts (food seemed to work well). Then they used the drawing tool to draw the parts and &#8220;cut out&#8221; some of them. They also typed a sentence identifying the fraction. This gave them practice using all the different tools BookCreator has available. Finally, the students published their books online and I combined them into a class book. You can read their book <a href=\"https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/eIXMm7aSXiNxXp50JNjwJJQ3M522\/a2yNzFEXQBCd3Zal3SO6Hg\">here<\/a>. (<em>UPDATE: I taught a similar lesson in Ms. Long&#8217;s class at Varina, and you can read their book <a href=\"https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/eIXMm7aSXiNxXp50JNjwJJQ3M522\/6yX-FQvZQDSVBtaNKTEATw\">here<\/a><\/em>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about fractions as parts of a whole and as parts of a group (SOL3.3). Today students in Ms. Forrester&#8217;s class made fractions books to show examples of each type using BookCreator. First, Ms. Forrester set up her account and gave the access code to her students. Once&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3749\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd","category-math","tag-ebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}