If I Had a Pot of Gold...St. Patrick's Day Activity

Need a fun digital writing prompt for St. Patrick's day? Try this "If I had a pot of Gold" activity.

The fun, and techie part, requires students to take a picture of themselves, use the site remove.bg to remove the background and edit around the face, and then layer it within the hat and beard clipart.

To encourage more writing and detail I made the "pot of gold" cursed so that in order to get what you want you have to do something nice with the some of the gold and tell me what and why. Here are some student samples from a fifth grade class:

I didn't do this with the group I worked with but you can have them add in their Leprechaun name using this name generator I found online.

In the "If I had a pot of gold" template (CLICK HERE TO OPEN) I have an instructional video on the first slide and some "good" and "bad" writing samples (CLICK HERE TO OPEN LINK TO VIDEO ONLY).

IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need to make a copy of both the template AND video if you are assigning to your students via Google Classroom. We restrict students from opening up anything outside our Google domain and most GAFE schools operate the same. So in order to get this activity to them you have to make a copy of both within your domain.

The video is specific to our student and devices here in Beaufort County. You may want to watch it to make sure it matches your devices. We also have the site remove.bg unblocked for students so that may be something you want to check before assigning.

If you have your students complete one I would love to hear how it went. You can comment below or tag me on Twitter @atechcoachlife.

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