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Digital Storytellers: Creating and Sharing Our Ideas ✨ cross-curricular

Teacher: TeacherAI | Grade: 2 | Subject: Technology, Social-Emotional Learning | Duration: 45 minutes

📝 Description: Students create digital stories about themselves, share them with classmates, and practice giving respectful feedback using tablets and reflection tools.

Standards

  • TECH.2.6.c (Use technology to communicate ideas clearly to others)
  • TECH.2.6.d (Share work with appropriate audiences using digital platforms)
  • SEL.2.RS.1 (Communicate clearly and respectfully with others)

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • Create a simple digital story using drawing and recording tools on tablets to share personal ideas
  • Present their digital story to classmates using appropriate volume and clear communication
  • Give and receive feedback using respectful language and sentence starters

Supplies Needed

  • Tablets or Chromebooks
  • Chart paper
  • Crayons and markers
  • White paper

Lesson Structure

Opening (5 minutes)

Gather students on the carpet and explain: "Today we're going to be digital storytellers! We'll create stories about ourselves using tablets, then share them with our friends and practice giving kind, helpful feedback." Show the feedback sentence starters chart and model one example: "I liked how you..." Display tablets and briefly demonstrate the drawing/recording app.

Main Activity (35 minutes)

Step-by-step instructions:

  1. Story Planning (5 minutes): Have students draw a quick picture plan on white paper showing "Something special about me" - could be a favorite activity, family member, or talent. Walk around and help students focus their ideas into one clear story.
  2. Digital Creation (15 minutes): Students use tablets to create their digital story. Show them how to use the drawing tools and recording feature. They should draw 2-3 simple pictures and record 1-2 sentences about each picture. Circulate to help with technical issues and encourage clear speaking.
  3. Practice Time (3 minutes): Students practice presenting their story to themselves or whisper-practice with a partner before sharing with the larger group.
  4. Sharing Circle (10 minutes): Form a circle where 4-5 students share their digital stories with the class. After each presentation, guide 2-3 classmates to give feedback using sentence starters from the chart.
  5. Reflection Recording (2 minutes): Students use tablets to record one sentence about how it felt to share their story and receive feedback from friends.

Closing (5 minutes)

Gather students back on carpet and ask volunteers to share one thing they learned about giving or receiving feedback. Emphasize how technology helped them share their voices and connect with classmates.

Quick Check: "Show me thumbs up if you used the tablet to tell your story clearly. What's one way we gave respectful feedback today? How did it feel when someone said something nice about your work?"

Formative Assessment

During the lesson, look for:

  • Students successfully using tablet tools to create and record their digital story with minimal assistance
  • Clear communication during presentations with appropriate volume and eye contact with audience
  • Use of respectful feedback language from sentence starters when responding to classmates' work

Differentiation Strategies

Support for Struggling Students:

  • Pair with a tech-savvy buddy for tablet assistance and provide pre-drawn templates they can trace
  • Offer choice to draw on paper first then take a photo with tablet instead of drawing directly on screen
  • Provide visual feedback cards with pictures and simple words instead of requiring verbal feedback

Challenge for Advanced Learners:

  • Encourage adding text labels or captions to their digital drawings using the typing feature
  • Have them help classmates with technical difficulties and model good feedback examples
  • Create longer stories with 4-5 slides or add background music/sound effects if available in the app

ELL/ELD Support:

  • Provide sentence frames for their recordings: "This is my..." "I like..." "This makes me feel..."
  • Allow home language use in recordings with English translation help from teacher or bilingual peer
  • Use visual feedback charts with pictures alongside English sentence starters

Printable Materials

Respectful Feedback Sentence Starters Chart

When I Want to Say Something Nice: When I Want to Ask a Question:
• I liked how you...
• My favorite part was...
• You did a great job...
• I learned that... 		• Can you tell me more about...?
• What was your favorite part?
• How did you...?
• Why did you choose...?

My Digital Story Plan

Name: __________________ Date: __________


My story will be about something special about me:

Draw your idea here:


I will tell my audience:

Picture 1: I will say _________________________________


Picture 2: I will say _________________________________


Picture 3: I will say _________________________________

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