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Not Another State Report, Again! Using Old Technology with a New Twist for Project-Based Learning. |
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Santa Maria-Bonita School District
Title: Mapping Your State's Points of Interest
Materials and Technology Needed:
- Kid Pix or another Paint program
- Microsoft Excel
- Digital Camera
- Atlas
- maps101.com or any of the web sites listed on the resource page
Activities:
- Students must create a map of their state using a painting tool. They should include all major cities as well as points of interest. They should not label the points of interest at this time, instead use a symbol to represent them.
- If creating the image is too challenging for some students, they could take a quality digital image of a map, using the digital camera.
- Students then insert the image as a background into Excel and use Excel to diagram their map with comments about the points of interest and activities they did on their "vacation" (lesson one).
- Click here for step by step directions on how to diagram an image in Excel!!!, for the PDF version click here!
Assessment:
- This diagram is saved into their electronic portfolio for use during their final presentation.