Roanoke, The Lost Colony Flip Chart

    

       I LOVE FLIP CHARTS!!!
           
      The 5th grade curriculum in Michigan includes a  lesson on the Lost Colony of Roanoke.     Along with reading the lesson in our text, taking notes, a Study Stack, and a short video clip I added a flip chart to make a short lesson summary.    My students like the hands-on work of a flip chart.  

        I found that children need the tactile experience when learn even in Social Studies. Turning the flaps back and forth, opening and closing reinforces learning.   These are easy enough to make in a class period.     If you choose to make a second or third flip chart for a later lesson, your students will feel confident and comfortable making  flip charts and the instructions will be minimal. 

            😀 Happy teacher  = 😁 happy students!
                         It's a win - win situation!

       As you an see,  I have the kids glue their flip charts onto loose leaf paper.    This way 
the flip chart can be clipped into their Social Studies duo-tang so it  does not get "lost ".

     My students enjoy doing a little added decoration to their flip chart.  
I'll do just about anything that will give an incentive to study.      Some students use more color and symbols, while others draw stick figures, add speech bubbles, captions, and arrows to enhance their work.     Each child learns by using their own style.       What works for one might not work for their neighbor. 

      The inside of the cover flaps can be used to write additional facts.    The student is able to write pertinent information on the lines of the loose leaf paper.   After the flip chart is complete my students enjoy sharing their work with their classmates.     In this way the next student can possibly learn additional information by reading a different flip chart than their own.    They can also learn from looking at the illustrations.

Please leave a comment.  I love to hear if someone can use my ideas.

Beti

Martin Luther and the Reformation

Martin Luther 

       I taught a Social Studies lesson on Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Protestant Religion.  I have had real success with interactive notebook pages this year with my students. So, this is my attempt to explain the concept.

      The homework tonight was to teach your parents about Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Protestant Religion.  
      
       These are the church doors... When the paper is folded the students were instructed to write 15 in the left side door near the edge of the door and 17 on the right side door near the edge of the paper.  When the doors are closed you can read the date 1517.  In the same way, the words Catholic and Church are written.  The door handles were added next.  Finally, the sheet with 95 reasons that Martin Luther was dissatisfied with the Catholic Church are mailed to the door.

      
        This is the inside with the picture of Martin Luther. Sorry for the blurry picture.

The center section where the students had to fill in information.

        This is my model of the outside flaps which became the doors.  After  I drew the nail on the paper with the 95 reasons, of course I hammered  on my desk, just for the effect.  The boys loved it and pounded on their desks, too.
   
     Here you can see the finished product glued onto loose leaf with the title included.

       The students' homework is to used this Flip chart to explain to their parents who Martin Luther was and what he did. If a child can explain a concept to an adult or another student they have the knowledge of the material and information. 😃  

          Flip Charts are a fun way for the students to learn information with a hands on project.

Beti

Adding Illustrations and Color in Notetaking

           

 Many students doodle while in class. Flowers, spaceships, airplanes, animals of all kinds, squiggles, stars, hearts, etc. We've seen it all.  Kids like to color.  But teaching your students to add little pictures and color to their notes can be very beneficial for your kiddos.  The pictures can help a person stir a memory of a piece of information during a test or sometime later in life. 
             
    My Social Studies class was making a flip chart about the Lost Colony of Roanoke.  I suggested that they add some pictures to their flip charts by telling them, " A picture is worth a thousand words".  

        This student drew an island on the Roanoke flap and a crown on the Queen Elizabeth.

        The flaps continued with a helmet and sword for Sir Walter Raleigh.

     This student took a different approach with stick figures and speech bubbles.
Sir Walter Raleigh is saying, " Go to Roanoke".  On the Captain John White flap, he wrote, You can't go back!" referring to John White leaving Roanoke to go back to England for supplies. 

    I love teaching these kids. They help me learn something new every day.  I hope I can do the same for each of my students.

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Enjoy your day!

Beti

Who am I? Explorers Flip Chart

  Flip Charts!

       If you know me, I LOVE to make  flip charts with my 5th graders!

As a study guide for the chapter on early exploration, we made this flip chart.  On each outer flap the students wrote "Who Am I?"  Then they wrote several "I  statements" to give clues to the explorer's name.  You can see that my kiddos use their notes to make sure their information is correct.

         This sample is the basic layout of the explorers' flip chart. I try to explain to the students that each statement must be specific to each person.

           The pictures of the explorers are from a set of reading comprehension sheets we used to study Christopher Columbus, Ponce deLeon, John Cabot, Hernando Cortes, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson.  The pictures can be colored. By coloring the illustrations the students spent more time on each explorer and hopefully learn more in the process.

       After the flip charts are completed, the students "share or trade"  their flip chart with another student in class. Each student reads the  "Who am I?" questions and tells who the explorer is.  This can  also be used as a whole class activity where each student comes to the from of the room to place their flip chart under the projector for everyone to view at the same time. Students can then raise their hand if they know the correct answer. Some students like to try and stump their peers with difficult questions. 

        Today I linked up with Forever in Fifth Grade for the  Show and Tell Tuesday.  

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       Please send me a comment if you use flip charts or these are of any help for your students.

     

Beti

Southern Colonies Flip Chart

FLIP CHARTS 

are your friends!

        At this time of students learning at home, this might be an idea for students to bring all their knowledge on a subject in one place. Students need different ways to study and learn.  Why not give flip charts a try!
        
My 5th graders enjoy making flip charts to sum up information. They add illustrations to help remember specific information.
    
     To wrap up the Southern Colonies a flip chart was perfect.

    This is the outside of the flip chart decorated and glued onto a piece of loose leaf paper.

         Each student received a sheet that had this information for the Southern Colonies. The paper was flipped over to the blank side and folded in half.  The flaps were opened and then each was folded into the middle fold.

   

  The inside of the paper was divided into four sections, Virginia, Maryland, Carolinas, and Georgia. Then the section for the Carolinas was divided in half.

  
    The students wrote the name of each colony in the correct section to match the outer flaps.  The following information was added by the students.
Founder, Reason for  founding,  Economy, and Geography.
  
     I let the kids go to it.  Encouraged to add illustrations and color, some kids go all out. I am always very impressed with their work.

   

        You can see that this chart is securely in place their Social Studies duo-tang. This way the student can refer back to their notes when working and when reviewing for a test.

     My 5th grade students have learn to used flip charts successfully.  I hope they will used this study technique in the future. 

     You can check out my other blog posts on working with flip charts. Hopefully they will be useful with your students, too!
     
      Please leave a comment if you get a spare moment. I love reading readers thoughts.

Beti 

New England Colonies Map Flip Chart

      Map Flip Chart


         To wrap up our study of the New England Colonies, I thought I would do a flip chart in the form of a map.  As I have said before, my 5th graders really enjoy making and using flip charts as a review in my Social Studies classes.  

     
   The base sheet for the flip chart is basically a nap of the New England Colonies.  I indicated where the glue should be applied when the tabs are ready to be added.  The second sheet has the individual colonies with the dotted lines the form the flaps.


  The kids colored the the colonies before they cut out each piece.

       Finally,  the colony pieces were glued into place.
Under each colony flap, the students wrote important information such as founder, reason for founding, date, and names of settlements for each individual colony.

      As you can see, students were able to use their book and notes to collect the correct information. Rhode Island is a very small space, so many students wrote their information in the area surrounding the little flap.  The flip chart will be clipped into the students'  Social Studies dou-tang for review for the assessment.

I hope you have a wonderful day. Please leave a comment, I'd love to hear from you.

   Beti

Jamestown ideas

     Jamestown 

and

Roanoke

Part of the 5th grade curriculum is learning about Jamestown.  I gave my students several activities in order to focus on Jamestown and The Lost Colony of Roanoke.
  
         Before the kids had a quiz on Roanoke and Jamestown, they made a "What I know about..." flip chart in order to organize their information.  Here is a close up of the images for the two flaps. I love to have my students make flip charts as study aids.  5th graders still need hands on activities as much as the children in younger grades.  The kids like the action of opening and closing the flaps while studying.This gives them the tactile experience that  many people need to learn.

    We also make a Lost Colony flip chart.

            The students then organized what they knew about each colony and wrote the information under the correct flap.  As expected, some students wrote more and some wrote less. 
         

          After the flip charts were finished,  the students passed their flip chart to a partner.  Each child would read the information the their classmates had written.  The review became more beneficial because they were constantly reading different information and also reviewing the same information worded differently.

      A Circle Flip Chart is a different way to get the students thinking.

     Information is written under each flap. Last, the picture of the fort or a student drawing is glued in the middle of the circle.

I was very pleased on how these activities helped my students on their Roanoke and Jamestown quiz.
     

      The lastly, the students chose one of three writing activities about the Jamestown colony. 

1.  You were a settler of Jamestown and wrote a post card to a family member that you left in England.  Postcards always have a picture on the back, so design an illustration of Jamestown on the reverse side of the post card.

2. You were a settler of Jamestown and wrote a letter to Captain John Smith stating how you felt about his leadership abilities and his rule for work in Jamestown.

3.  You were a settler of Jamestown and voiced your opinion if life was easy or difficult for you.  Would you stay in Jamestown or decide to return to England?

      It is great to make your students feel empowered in their learning.  Giving them choices is one way to do this.  Some of us are better writers and others are better using their artistic creativity. These activities can be altered for different ability levels in your classroom.

      Today I linked up with Doodle Bugs Teaching.

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      Please leave a comment if you have an extra minute in your busy day. I'd love to read your ideas.

Beti

Interactive Notebook- Eastern Woodland Indians

     Eastern Woodland Indians

       As we continued our unit on Native Americans, the topic of the Eastern Woodland Indians is always interesting to 5th graders.   I needed to have a way for the students to take notes to learn about the longhouse. I found the first  illustration, the interior of a longhouse and enlarged it to fit on a standard size copy paper. I can not take credit for the art work.

 This is the base page for the longhouse.

     The top sheet or outside of the longhouse was cut out and glued onto to base page.

       My students were encouraged to color their longhouse to enhance the appearance. This also makes them spend more time, thus more learning about the topic.

       We identified the fire (#1), corn drying (#2), smoke hole in the roof (#3), etc., labeled and highlighted the number on the base sheet as a class.  The on the lines below the picture we wrote "fire in the center of the longhouse".   The children were then asked to add two more pieces of information to their sheet on their own.

       The next step was to "talk to your neighbor" and share your information. Now the kids could show their neighbor what they had found and then added it to their list. Finally, we shared the information with the entire class.

       I really like to use the "" talk to your neighbor" technique with my 5th graders.  Then when I call on a student, they have some information to tell the class instead of saying, "I  don't know."  It takes the pressure off of children that aren't sure of their abilities and makes them more confident.     

     Interactive note taking has been very successful with my fifth graders.  I hope you will be able to give it a try. Please send me a note if you get the chance.  I'd love to hear how lit works in other classes.


Beti

Interactive notebook Indians of Desert Southwest

        Desert Southwest

       This post is related to a previous post concerning the Native American Indians of the Desert Southwest of the United States. Here is the link.
http://betikempa1.blogspot.com/2015/09/desert-southwest-pueblo.html 

     As my students learn about more Indian tribal regions, I have them work on their interactive notebook pages.  Today's topic was Indian tribes of the Desert Southwest.  The kids learned about the Hopi, Zuni, Anasazi, Taos, and the Apache tribes.  Our discussion included climate, location, food, beliefs,  clothing, and shelter. 

     We glued together the base page and the top to illustrate the outside and inside of an adobe pueblo.

Base page

Top flap

     After the page was glued together, the students added information to describe the illustrations. The students could choose to write numbers or letters on the top and/or bottom sheet. Next, under the illustrations, a numerical or alphabetical list was made to label the activities or locations pointed out in the illustrations.


Climate Regions
       Another activity concerned the climate regions. These are illustrated by the students.  This shows the climate region of the Desert Southwest.  The names of tribes are written in the space under the region. I always encourage my 5th graders to add color to their illustrations. This helps the students to spend more time looking at the information which will help them hopefully retain the information. During a test, you can look back into your "mind's eye" and see and remember  an image or color to help bring back the related information.

      My 5th grade students like to work on this type note taking in addition to traditional note taking.

I would love to read your comments on this activity.  Would you use something like this in your class? 

Beti

Interactive Notebook- Inuit Indians

     Fifth grade Social Studies includes a unit on Native Americans.  I like to have the kids working with interactive notebooks.  We start with all the information printed out for the students.  This gets them used to making and working on the pages.

    The base page has all the information.

This page will have holes punched in it.

The top sheet will need to be cut out.

The next step is to glue the outside of the igloo on the base page by matching the X's.

My students last year really like learning about the Inuit Indians by opening and closing this igloo.

More interactive pages to come on the blog.

      The last part added to this section of the student notes is the student drawn illustrations of knowledge concerning the Inuit Indians. You can see that the students are interrupting the information in their own way.

                                     STUDENT        ILLUSTRATIONS

          I encourage my students to label their illustrations.  All this added information helps the children recall on tests and later in the future.  Many of my students have joined the Quiz Bowl teams when they reached 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.  They come back to say that they remember the Social Studies questions from 5th grade.  

       Today I linked up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for the Five for Friday Linky.
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Enjoy your day!

Beti