October 2022-Keynote

Keynote is a presentation platform that includes powerful tools that help you bring stories to life with historical photos, illustrate math concepts with shapes and drawings, or animation. 

Keynote is similar to Microsoft's PowerPoint or Google's Slides, but allows students to stretch their creativity with animations, drawings and effects that aren't available in the same way in the other platforms. Students can also save their presentations as individual images, movies or even animated GIFs.

Lesson Integration Ideas: 

• Use the Read-Build-Write template to have you students practice recording themselves reading their sight words, building their words with the tiles, then writing their words. They can also self-check with the built-in rubric at the end of the template. 

• Help students deepen understanding of a story and improve reading comprehension by creating a postcard collage in Keynote that illustrates an important plot point or event in history. Have students write postcards from the perspective of literary characters or historical figures.  

• Use animation features to show the changing of the states of matter and allow students to use tools like tables and objects to show their understanding of solids, liquids and gases.