Catching Friends
in “Action”
Author: Angela Perry
Content Area: Social Studies, Health, Technology and Character Education
Grade: Second
Objectives from North Carolina Standard Course of Study:
Health:
4.01 Recognize and respond to the feelings of others.
4.02 Judge behaviors as promoting or hindering friendships.
4.03 Give and receive compliments and apologies appropriately.
4.04 Respond appropriately to teasing and bullying.
Technology
1.1 Identify uses of technology in the community.
1.2 Recognize an individual’s rights of ownership to computer-generated work.
2.1 Identify essential computer terms.
2.2 Identify the function of physical components of a computer system.
2.8 Participate in the planning and creation of a class multimedia story which includes student narration.
Social Studies:
3.1 Identify multiple roles performed by children in their families, schools, and neighborhoods.
Language Arts:
4.06 Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).
4.08 Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.
4.09 Use media and technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for a specific purpose.
Procedures:
1. Read a book on friendship.
2. Discuss ways that people show friendship to one another. Make a bubble map of the children’s responses.
3. Show the children a digital camera. Explain to them that each student will get a chance to use the camera. Talk to them about being careful with expensive equipment.
4. Explain the features and how to use a digital camera. Pick three children and have one child be the photographer. The other two children will demonstrate two friends working together/ playing together/ sharing, etc. Have the child take several photos. Next, take the camera to the computer to download the pictures. Edit the pictures and then place them into a Power Point document.
5. Show the children how to use power point. Have them help to create 2-3 storybook pages with one picture per page.
6. Once the technology skills have been introduced, have pairs of children take 15-20 minutes to walk around the school in classrooms, lunchroom, library, and outside. They should take pictures of any students demonstrating friendship. They can take up to 20 pictures and have at least 5.
7. Once children have completed that task, they must search their camera and pick 2 pictures they like the best. The rest will be deleted from the camera.
8. Students will then download pictures and place them into Power Point. If they would like to edit pictures they may. They will not write the story until everyone is finished with their pictures.
9. Once everyone has placed pictures on power point the teacher will combine them all into one document.
10. Using an LCD machine the teacher will go through each page and the students will help to write 1-2 sentences for each page.
11. Finally the teacher will print out, laminate and attach the papers together in a book. Each child will visit a K-2 class and read the story.
12. The children will write in their center journals on what they did, what they learned, any experiences that had, and any questions they had.
Assessment :
1. Students will be observed throughout this activity.
2. Center Journal
3. Final Class product with individual pages (picture quality and editing/ pasting on Power Point)
