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The ABCs of Our Community O’Neill

The ABCs of Our Community, O’Neill on Apple Books Store O’Neill Elementary’s 3rd Grade Reading class, under the direction of Mrs. Julie Pistulka along with help from Katie Morrow, ESU 8, recently published their latest version of an annual community history research project. This year, the creative student authors compiled and shared their information in […]

Amazing Animal Books by Verdigre 2nd graders

Mrs. Bev Krutz’s 2nd grade authors at Verdigre Elementary created digital books to share their research about amazing animals. They created the digital books in Pages on iPad and utilized some newer creative features including shapes, drawing, and audio recording to enhance their writing. You can view the finished products at the site below: Amazing […]

Augmented Reality “Important Book”

Mrs. Pistulka’s third grade reading class at O’Neill Elementary brought their local community history research to life by authoring a book enhanced with augmented reality. Katie Morrow from ESU 8 worked with the class to assemble the research narratives students wrote and the illustrations they created into a book modeled after “The Important Book” by Margaret Wise Brown. […]

Honeybees in a Hologram

West Holt 4th graders researched honey bees and creatively shared what they learned through a hologram! Original video: HoneyBees Hologram video: Honeybees Hologram Read more about the creation process and use of green screen in this post.