Document Cameras & Projectors: Cool Use #3 ELA & MATH “ABC 123″

ABC 123

CONTENT AREA: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATH

GRADE LEVELS: ELEMENTARY OR MIDDLE SCHOOL

A document camera can be used to bring life to sequencing activities such as

practicing alphabetical order or numbers on a number line. Students love to come to the

document camera and see their work projected for the class.

MATERIALS

- Document camera

- Projector

- Cards or small pieces of paper with words to be put in alphabetical order (or numbers

to be put in order)

PROCEDURE

BEFORE

1. Label each small piece of paper with a word to be placed in alphabetical order.

DURING

2. Give a student several slips of paper with words to put in order under the document

camera.

3. Give another student several additional slips of paper to add to the previous words.

4. Continue until all words have been correctly added in order.

5. Discuss as a class, clarifying and making corrections as necessary.

Document Camera Use #3 ABC 123

AFTER

6. As a review activity on a separate occasion, mix the cards and pass out to different

students, repeat activity as listed above, adding a shortened time constraint.

7. As an assessment, project selected numbers using the  document camera, have

students write the numbers in order on their own papers.

ADAPTATIONS

- This activity can be easily adapted for practice in other sequencing activities, such as

days of the week, months of the year, or how to put words in alphabetical order.

- This activity adapts well to content areas such as math or science, i.e. teaching

students where fractions and positive and negative numbers fit on a number line, or

the stages of the development of a butterfly.

- Have each student create several cards with concepts to put in order.

Special Thanks to the author, Dr. Karina Clemmons