RSS Class Explores Egypt via EdTech

RSS students explored Egyptian religion more in depth this past week, researching a god or goddess of their choice and using various EdTech options to create a product.  Students used a research template created in Google Docs to gather background information on their god/goddess.  They then chose from the following four product options:

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    • Design a children’s story about an Egyptian god or goddess, completed via a Docs presentation (with words and pictures).

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     Create an online game using Scratch that contains factual information about your Egyptian god and how he or she interacted with the other gods.

  • Make a commercial for your god and his/her product using GoAnimate.
  • Create a picture/trading card/sports card that portrays your god as a modern person.

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    Click here to view student cards.

    Use Google Draw to help you combine images into a cool picture.

Students presented their products and evaluated each other using this rubric.

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