Commemorative Coin Keynote

Students in Fourth Grade at Jamestown Elementary School created designs for commemorative coins as a review of the famous Virginians they studied in the Revolutionary War unit. Each pair of students chose a person from a list of five famous Virginians (Jack Jouett, James Lafayette, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson) and used their digital notebooks, in iBooks, and Safari to research ten facts about that person. They recorded their ten facts on a slide in Keynote. The opening slide of the Keynote needed a picture of the person, and this was acquired through a Google search on Safari. The students then used Drawing Pad to design both sides of a coin commemorating one important event in the person's life. Once the drawings were completed, the students imported the images into Keynote and created a slide for each. They also wrote descriptions. Once completed, the presentations were posted to DropBox to share with others.