Creating A Place To Spark Writing Activities With PebbleGo and Capstone Connect!

 

I love it when our teachers come to me with new ideas. 

Last fall, one of our 2nd grade teachers asked me to come to her classroom to help with a new idea.  She wanted to create a place where her students could find several curated topics to write about throughout the month.  We brainstormed how a choice board would be perfect for this idea. 

She gave me a list of topics for October and the fall. I took the list and went back to the library to work on a choice board to meet this goal.  You can read all about this first experience here.

And now, we are onto our Winter Research choice board. 

As I created this new Winter Research choice board, let me show you the steps I took using Capstone Connect and PebbleGo. 

First, I logged into our Capstone Connect, which is the perfect place to start for a project like this.

In Capstone Connect, I can search PebbleGo, Capstone Interactive eBooks and Activity Bundles to find resources around my topics. 

I started with Winter. I found the PebbleGo article, grabbed the link (the arrow is pointing to the link), 

and added it to the choice board I created in Google Slides.  You will see that in the image above. 

I did that for every topic, and a few more that I found in Capstone Connect, to create this choice board for our 2nd graders. 

Once it was all filled in, I shared the Published Link with Staci so she could share it with her students.  

You will find this link by going to File, Share, and Publish to the Web as shown in the image above. 

I made a copy of the Pick A PebbleGo Topic To Learn More About This Fall! choice board if you want to do this for your students too. 

You will find it here to make a copy. 

I am excited to create these for our 2nd graders and others throughout the year.  I love this idea and I know our students will too.