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 * ||  || **Ideas for Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum**

**Lewis and Clark** **Historical event** **Authentic stories** **Our community** **Regional or local stories** **Inventions** **Animals** **Farming** **Authentic student writing** **Fiction** **Math Ideas** **Health** **PE** **Art** **Teachers** **Re-enact** **Technology** **Instead of just images of the students as they graduate**
 * Social Studies**
 * Be one of the explorers and tell the story from their perspective
 * Groups of students tell their version of what happened making connections to the other student’s stories (weaving in the events bringing out the connections)
 * Compare and contrast current events to historical events
 * The decades project adapted, but with various “voices” (Each decade needs to find people from that decade to interview and explain significant events)
 * Meet our community
 * Looking at our town, how have we changed?
 * Important people that have shaped our community
 * Midwest, what is it like to live here?
 * How does weather affect the way people live, work and play?
 * Tell the “wild weather stories” from Illinois
 * Create a commercial and sell your region to the visitors bureau
 * Mr. Mayor you should know this
 * Science**
 * Explain how inventions and discoveries are important to others
 * Simple machines, how have they changed the world?
 * Tell the story from the butterfly’s point of view
 * Focus on descriptive words or anticipation
 * Informational story, follow the monarchs etc.
 * How have animals adapted?
 * Tell the story of the fading small farmer
 * Challenges then and now
 * Technology on the Farm
 * Language Arts**
 * Students write stories and then illustrate or act out
 * Family tree stories (think about point of view of someone else)
 * Take a character to court, students are judge, jury etc.
 * Change the setting, how would it be different today?
 * Compare and contrast fairy tales from various regions
 * Change an ending to a favorite tales
 * Bring a set of characters to life and act out the story
 * Take a geometry walk and show and tell what you found
 * Math is all around the town, really where? Split up in groups and find out
 * Explain to others a concept like adding fractions using real life examples
 * Act out math problems using various strategies
 * Specials**
 * How do we stay healthy? (Interview doctors, others)
 * Story from a different point of view, inside the heart, the opinion of the bones why we all like the circulatory system (tell the story about all working together)
 * Public service announcement about the importance of sleep, tell from the point of view of a sleepy driver, crabby sleepover breakfast, student in school. Embed science facts.
 * Nutrition portion size from what we should have to most restaurants, calories have two groups one healthy nutrition other fast food junkies, junkies try to get everyone eat not healthy.
 * Fitness, who cares?
 * History of a sport
 * Sell the PE teacher on something new
 * Create an Eye Toy ad for the couch potato
 * There are artists everywhere, meet some of our local artists
 * Meet the masters
 * Our artist changed the world because..
 * This is how graphics are created on the computer
 * General Ideas**
 * Tell stories from the front line
 * Moments you will never forget
 * Moments you wish you could forget!
 * A piece of literature
 * A picture book
 * An event in history
 * Abraham Lincoln is more than a big statue in Washington
 * Study and debate issues important to students in the class
 * Gathering accurate information on the Internet
 * Technology tools then and now
 * How we have grown…
 * Who were the teachers?
 * Scan some of the art projects
 * Funny things students remember
 * How the building changed
 * How has the world changed?
 * New products or changes (see the decade project)
 * Interview where we hope to go ||