Student Sensory Posters

Earlier in the month I wrote about making Black History Month Sensory Poster with Google Drawings. I did the activity with third grade students and they did such a good job (a few of their projects are featured above).

The students were able to follow along with my video tutorial and the teacher and I were just there for technical help. My favorite part of the day was one of the students, when packing up, said "That was way more fun than we normally have in ELA." 🤣

To be clear, I think he was talking about putting the project together tech wise and not the researching and writing part.

The hardest part, obviously, was getting the students to put in quality facts in their graphic organizers. Like most student projects some were good and some needed extra help and guidance.

Another teacher, also third grade, tried it on his own with his student and they did it together as a group and he had them put in three sensory facts vs. the five or six on the graphic organizer and that seemed to work with his group (so the activity can be modified up or down as needed).

Another teacher, and I really liked this idea, did a poor version of a sensory poster with students and then had them work whole class to come up with a better (more facts) version before she sent them on their own to do their Black History projects.

Anyway you do it with students it is a super cute EASY project to do that teaches a lot of useful tech skills for future projects.

If you try this idea, or adapt it in anyway, please feel free to post how it worked for you and your student in the comments or tag me on Twitter @atechcoachlife.

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