Little Bird Tales Bloom!
Digital Storytelling for Elementary Students
Try it today!
Getting Started is Easy
- Get inspiration here by searching public tales.
- Check out this how-to guide with easy to follow instructions.
- Click on the video below to see how it's done!
- Here's how to add student accounts.
Remembering
Verbs: Tell, list, describe, relate, locate, write, find, state, name, identify, label, recall, define, recognize, match, reproduce, memorize, draw, select, write, recite
- Describe how penguins live. Include information about their habitat and food. Example
- Create a timeline of events for Jamestown.
- Identify parts of plant.
- Identify and describe the planets in the solar system.
Understanding
Verbs: Explain, interpret, outline, discuss, distinguish, predict, restate, translate, compare, describe, relate, generalize, summarize, put into your own words, paraphrase, convert, demonstrate, visualize
- Create a story summarizing the main events in the story, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs."
- Restate the steps to the water cycle.
- Demonstrate the process of photosynthesis.
- Explain how humans impact animal populations and what we can do to help them grow.
Applying
Verbs: Solve, show, use, illustrate, construct, complete, examine, classify, choose, interpret, make, put together, change, apply, produce, translate, calculate, manipulate, modify, put into practice
- Using a collection of images, solve a math problem.
- Create a story showing the life of a plant from beginning to end. Take pictures or draw pictures of each stage and explain what the plant needs and how the plant grows through each stage.
- Show how the different regions of Virginia are different from one another.
- Show how you solved single and multi-step problems using Polya's problem solving strategies.
Analyzing
Verbs: Analyze, distinguish, examine, compare, contrast, investigate, categorize, identify, explain, separate, advertise, take apart, differentiate, subdivide, deduce
- Using a collection of pictures, compare and contrast the relationship between Britain and the American colonies during the Revolutionary Era.
- Given a math word problem, determine the strategies that would be necessary to solve it.
- Review a piece of art including form, color and texture.
- Compare and contrast the importance of the arrival of Africans and woman to the Jamestown settlement.
Evaluating
Verbs: Judge, select, choose, decide, justify, debate, verify, argue, recommend, assess, discuss, rate, prioritize, determine, critique, evaluate, criticize, weigh, value, estimate, defend.
- Create a story to depict changes that need to be made to save endangered species.
- Create a top 5 list of the following people/roles ranking them in the order of their importance. Make sure to include reasons why you ranked them a certain way.
- Determine reasons why Virginia's capital was moved during the Colonial times. Choose a different location in Virginia to move the capital and justify why it should be moved there instead of Williamsburg or Richmond.
- Identify what the climate and surroundings are like for Egypt, China, the Plains in the US, the Southwest US and the Eastern Woodlands of the US. Determine which area you would prefer to call home. Explain.
Creating
Verbs: Create, invent, compose, predict, plan, construct, design, imagine, propose, devise, formulate, combine, hypothesize, orgininate, add to, forcast
- Following the format of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," create your own story. Example
- Retell the story from a different perspective.
- After studying measurement, build a bridge that can support 1/2 of a kilogram and can fit inside of a 2x2 ft. box.
- After studying force, motion and energy, using the given objects, create something that will get object A inside object B with as little force as possible.
Stacie C. Taylor
Hanover County Public Schools
BPES, CHES & LMES
Email: sctaylor@hcps.us
Website: http://hcpstech.wordpress.com/
Location: Hanover, VA, United States
Twitter: @sctaylorITRT