I chose this particular assignment as my first artifact because I liked how it fit in with what our 5th graders already do in their classroom setting. Our 5th grade team has students create portfolios at the beginning of the year so that they can add simple artifacts throughout the school year as a lead-up to their Spring conference, in which they lead. Each teacher shows their class how to create a Google Site and how to upload something as an artifact. Because of this background knowledge, I knew my students would be able to handle this assignment with very little difficulty. In this assignment, I asked them to create another tab on their site titled "Physical Education," similar to their other tabs of Math, Reading, Writing, etc. I asked them to provide an artifact for 2 out of the 3 areas that we focus on in Physical Education; Fitness, Teamwork, Skills. After they choose their artifacts, I asked them to use several different Google tools to provide their examples. I gave an example of a student writing a short story about a teambuilding experience that they did in class and how they were placed in teams and had to solve a problem. I gave another example of a student taking pictures of themselves doing a skill correctly and then placing the pictures in a Google Slide deck to explain. This assignment was an easy transition for students because of their prior knowledge of the G-Suite tools. This assignment gave me confidence to assign similar projects in the future and to possibly try them with younger grades!
Portfolio Assignment
It is so very cool that students have a PE tab for their spring student lead conferences. When you build on what students already know, the task is not overwhelming. If your students are like mine, PE is one of the highlights of their day, so having that in their portfolio is wonderful!
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