3rd Grade Patriotic Symbols

I'm staring on a cross curricular project in 3rd grade.

The project is going to incorporate using the internet, reading, writing, social studies, and possibly sound recording. It also incorporates the class website I use with my classes as well as the one created by the 3rd grade teachers.

Students will use a jog the web (link posted on the computer class wiki website). The students will find the definitions for "patriotic" and "symbol" and be prepared to discuss what a patriotic symbol is.

The jog will then take them to the 3rd grade class site, where they will each be responsible for looking up one of the patriotic symbols--these are listed on the site, and are pictured on the classroom rug.

Each student will take a five question quiz about their symbol. They will be able to check their answers online. Once they have all the answers correct, they will record the correct answers to three of the questions on a worksheet.

In Language Arts class, the 3rd grade teacher is going to have students turn their questions (some are multiple choice, some are matching) into sentences. The students will then write a short writing piece. During the next computer class or two they will practice Word Processing--typing, saving, retrieving a file, etc.

Then, depending on time, the 3rd grade teacher and I will work to get each student to record him or herself reading their piece. Pictures will be taken of the symbols, and I hope to put the student audio files with the pictures and create a short movie from it--that can be posted on both sites to be shared with parents.

I'm pretty excited about this. I think at this point the biggest obstacle might be students missing class from the flu.