Stories inspired by the Quiver app for International Dot Day

My Grade 1-3 classes have thoroughly enjoyed being part of a team blog doing activities together for International Dot Day on the 15th September 2018. The lesson I am going to describe now is possibly the last activity we'll do for Dot Day seeing that today is already the 13th September! Dot Day is based on the inspiring children's book written by Peter Reynolds. You can find it on YouTube here.

On our collaborative team blog the Australian classes formed themselves into teams. Each team wrote some words on dots and challenged us to make a story with the words. They called this activity 'Connect the Dots'.  Here is one of the Australian teams:

Team Shark
pen, splash, China, shark, potato

This is what today's activity sets out to do - create those stories. However, in a previous lesson we used the wonderful AR app called Quiver and those 3D balls that my class loved viewing through the app led to the inspiration for the following stories.

The task:

• Using the provided world map (which is royalty free map) write a quick imaginative story about the journey of your dot as it comes alive and leaves the classroom taking you with it.
• Make sure you use the words from your assigned Australian team. Underline or colour the words that they ask you to use.

The result

I was really pleased with the outome. The class wrote some imaginative stories showing the dots travels, I have embedded them below using PowerPoint online.