{"id":3964,"date":"2018-11-04T23:45:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T03:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2019-09-05T20:16:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T00:16:45","slug":"5th-grade-oceans-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3964","title":{"rendered":"5th Grade Oceans Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?attachment_id=3969\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3969\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-1-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-1-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-1.png 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fifth graders at Trevvett Elementary have been studying the characteristics of ocean environments (SOL5.6), so today, students in Ms. Poland&#8217;s class created their own oceans websites using Google sites.  First, the students accessed their Google Drive and clicked New > More > Google Sites.  This opened up a starter template.  They typed a creative title (with capitals), selected a background header image, and a theme.  Next the students chose a layout and began typing the information they wanted to share. Some wrote about ocean life, others wrote about the ocean zones, and a few wrote about ocean topics that weren&#8217;t necessarily taught in class, but were interests of theirs. I usually guide students to write before searching for images, because the image search can become distracting and time consuming. However, I also understand that images can inspire further writing. So once the students had some focused typing time (ten minutes or so), I let them search for photos, even if they weren&#8217;t finished writing.  After they added their photos, they went back and revised their writing until it was polished and complete.  Finally, I showed them how to publish their webpages, copy the links, and share them on Schoology for their classmates to see. You can take a look at some of their work <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/u\/1\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vSzMo6kbJnlyds3t-LkPFnFHWdyboFLwetY7Jix9CSQtx1d_2gpE-E63A5HdCNbWALk69rMxN_7CeK4\/pub\">here<\/a> (<em>UPDATE: I taught this lesson in a few other classes and added their examples to the document<\/em>).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth graders at Trevvett Elementary have been studying the characteristics of ocean environments (SOL5.6), so today, students in Ms. Poland&#8217;s class created their own oceans websites using Google sites. First, the students accessed their Google Drive and clicked New > More > Google Sites. This opened up a starter template. They typed a creative title&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3964\">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":[5,10,12],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd","category-languagearts","category-science","tag-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964","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=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3970,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}