ThingLink and the 13 Colonies

I recently had the opportunity to work with some of our fifth-grade team to help students create ThingLink images about the 13 colonies. I had never seen ThingLink in action before but I was amazed at how easy it was to create with and learn how to use.  I created the image below to practice how it is was done.






When it was time to talk to students about ThingLink, I showed them another practice image and we let them run with a practice ThingLink. They were allowed to select any topic they wanted but had to include a few different media to practice the process.

On Day Two, we gave them the learning requirements, their randomly selected colony them set them off on a new adventure. The next few days involved a lot of learning about colonies and how to utilize the technology of ThingLink.  Then it was time to present their learning to their classes.

Almost as an afterthought, it hit us that presenting these would cause some problems. It takes time to log out of a website so someone else can log in, and no one wants that kind of lag time in their classrooms.  I quickly created a spreadsheet with the names of all 100 5th graders and shared them with the teachers. The teachers dumped that spreadsheet into Google Classroom... and viola! We had a means of turning the project in and a quick link to all images.

I thought you might like to see some of the ThingLink images our students created.  Here are a few of the best.  Let me know how you are using ThinkLink in your school.