Project ideas for Wixie in the Elementary Classroom!

Design a Book Cover

Students create a new cover for a book to show comprehension and explore character, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict.

Character Scrapbook

To show what they know about a character in a novel you are reading, students create a digital scrapbook for this person.

Create a Creature

Students apply what they have learned about animal characteristics and adaptation to create a new creature and introduce it to the scientific community.

Personification Stories

Students can personify an object and write a story as part of an online book or animated adventure.

Monster Body Parts

Students engage with geometry ideas and science by creating a monster using basic shapes for body parts.

Wixie Monster Body Parts activity

Public Service Announcements

Students create a public service announcement to educate people about global warming or another issue they are passionate about.

Response to Literature

Students respond to a book they are reading, such as Grandpa's Stories by Langston Hughes.

Wixie Response to Literature template

Scientific Cycles

Students can choose a scientific cycle such as pollination and illustrate it to build and demonstrate their understanding.

Lesson Plan

Wixie 4-cycle template

Wixie 5-cycle template

Literature Adaptation

Students create their own adaptations of literature they are reading.

Interview with an Animal

Students interview animals to demonstrate knowledge of animal characteristics, diet, and more.

Illustrated Poetry

Students create visual poetry by combining images that portray the meaning of text.

Idioms

Students will illustrate and translate the meaning of an idiom to help others learn these examples of figurative language.