Bring Creative Technology to Fourth-Grade Classrooms!
Whether you have Chromebooks, iPads, PCs, or Macs in your classroom, you can use technology to engage and inspire your students in the curriculum.
Here are seven great ideas for using technology in your classroom, including student samples, lessons plans, and template. Use these ideas and tweets from classroom teachers to inspire technology integration in your fourth-grade classroom.
"Using Wixie allowed me to assign graphic organizers and assignments virtually, both in the physical classroom as well as the online classroom. I could make decisions and differentiate the assignments to meet the needs of specific students and was able to see the students' work at all stages from the beginning to completion of the assignment. With everything in one place, Wixie made it easy to keep track of each student and helped me avoid the need to look for lost papers."
Kim Beasley
Grade 4 Teacher
Anne Arundel County PS, MD
Design a Book Cover
Subject: Reading & Writing;
Skill: Comprehension, Symbolism
Students create a new cover for a book to show comprehension and explore character, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict.
Design a Book Cover Lesson Plan
Interview a Historical Figure
Subject: Social Studies;
Skill: Research, Informative Text
Imagine interviewing a colonist from Williamsburg, or Paul Revere's horse, or Ferdinand Magellan to share what you know about history.
Public Service Announcements
Subject: Science & Writing;
Skill: Research, Persuasive Writing
Students create a public service announcement to educate people about global warming or another issue they are passionate about.
Mind Mapping
Subject: Writing, Science, & Social Studies;
Skill: Communication, Comprehension, Organization
Students can use Wixie's mind mapping tools to brainstorm ideas and organize information. Combining text, visuals and connections in mind maps helps students show how ideas relate to one another.
Idioms
Subject: Reading & Writing;
Skill: Comprehension, Symbolism
Students will illustrate and translate the meaning of an idiom to help others learn these examples of figurative language.
Scientific Cycles
Subject: Science;
Skill: Research, Modeling
Students can choose a scientific cycle such as pollination and illustrate it to build and demonstrate their understanding.
Give Students Choice
Subject: Social Studies;
Skill: Research
Use this state report choice board to put students in charge of how they will demonstrate their learning.
Fourth-Grade Curriculum Guide
Wixie's tools are perfect for project work and the library of activities makes it easy to find assignments that match fourth-grade learning goals.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Animations of the Solar Eclipse
@APendilhe @LovettsvilleES @ElissaMoritz @TextorisLCPS @AshleyBarkley 3rd gr Ss collaborated and created Where in the World “talkie” projects in Wixie. pic.twitter.com/xzZuofJkOS
— Tansy Wetmore (@LOVlibrarylady) October 11, 2023 -
Designs to Promote Reading
In celebration of "Read a Shirt Day" for PARP Week, Mrs. Strack's 4th grade class at Vanderbilt designed shirts on Wixie during computer class that promoted reading. Read these shirts to get inspired! #HHHCSD pic.twitter.com/WyCkemUK1D
— Half Hollow Hills CSD (@OfficialHHHCSD) March 10, 2024 -
Video Game Design
4th grade learned about how to keep playing video games fun & friendly and how to handle "greifers". They are applying their learning by making a video game with rules of their own on Wixie! 🎮🕹 @MartinBlvdES @BCPSLMP @CommonSenseEd #bcpslms #digitalcitizenship pic.twitter.com/FuSzoX4mpl
— Mrs. Taylor (@MrsTaylor_5) September 27, 2023 -
Publish Books
@Jennife20928054 Fourth graders used Wixie to create their own library books for others to read. They included a table of contents and cited their sources in a bibliography. Great way for them to be Communicators and Contributors! 📖 @HorizonElem pic.twitter.com/6eekyJaXJX
— Miss Staples (@HRZIFT) February 15, 2023 -
Klimt's Tree of Life Digital Book
https://t.co/lqDHxN9a9F
— Visual Arts - Online Learning Program (@Art_OLP) March 24, 2023
Check out this amazing book by Ms. McCrimmon's fourth grade class! They used the Wixie template for Klimt's Tree of Life to create their own tree drawings. @Tech4Learning #Wixie @MsTelisaW @mbb0809 @RTwentey @sfisherBCPS @cgibson5bcps -
Talking Limericks
Creativity abounds @CSCElemAACPS in Ms. Garrett's 4th grade class as our #aacpsawesome students compose and publish limericks in @Wixie_T4L, complete with a talkie animation that recites the poem! #BelongGrowSucceed #aacpsfamily pic.twitter.com/zdyvG5DLAG
— Tech Infusion with AACPS PLOA (@aacpsoit) March 6, 2024 -
State Geography
4th grade ESOL students using #Wixie to create postcards about their favorite Maryland region to visit @Tech4Learning @AACountySchools @EngLangAcqAACPS pic.twitter.com/9rVKYeRiIa
— Jodi Bennett (@MrsBennettESOL) June 14, 2021 -
Visualizing Text
My favorite shared reading text of the year! Love hearing our class discussion of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Some readers used Wixie to share their visualizations. @the_corner_lcps pic.twitter.com/GvIpzj6GxR
— Nicole Taruc (@NicoleBTaruc) January 5, 2021 -
Food Webs
4th graders create food webs using @Wixie_T4L @CIT_PWCS pic.twitter.com/IZ6NGchn0W
— Mrs. Martin (@EdTechieMeg) February 26, 2025 -
Addressing Cyberbullying
Wow! I’m a little late posting, but my 4th graders did an amazing job with their cyber bullying wixie projects! ??#digitalcitizenship #bekind #practicesafety @HolabirdSTEM @BCPSLMP @vkearns_M @MrsBallardHSP @CosgroveBree pic.twitter.com/bP6RWf2Nyr
— Amy Levengood (@Levengood_reads) October 31, 2020 -
Mythology Trading Cards
Recent 4th grade Wixie creations: trading cards that share fast facts about the mythological characters that they researched. @Tech4Learning @WindyHillElem pic.twitter.com/pERRPnOikB
— WHES Media Center (@WHESmedia) May 4, 2018 -
Artistic Design
Playful Pointillism Perfection @CalvertESCCPS @Tech4Learning #wixie #fourthgradershttps://t.co/pNvkKnGw6nhttps://t.co/PyCsnwqazg pic.twitter.com/1mQjEK80BS
— Calvert Elementary (@CalvertESCCPS) June 21, 2018 -
Create a Creature
Our fourth grade students are creating a new animal on Wixie based on research they’ve conducted with Mrs. Taylor our Media Specialist. @AACountySchools @aacpsoit pic.twitter.com/z84ohdDZND
— SolleyAACPS (@SolleyAACPS) March 29, 2022 -
Book Promotions
What book would you promote in the library? These students did a fantastic job with their book reviews using Wixie! @HolabirdSTEM @vkearns_M @MrsBallardHSP @BCPSLMP #lovemyjob pic.twitter.com/JRTO2F1TEA
— Amy Levengood (@Levengood_reads) March 9, 2022 -
Word Problems
Using Wixie to create word problems. pic.twitter.com/ZJh9JS4sSG
— fabulousin4th (@OES4thgrade) October 5, 2017
