I have used this concept in my 5th grade class for years, as an end of the year project. We fill out "passport applications" and take pictures, the whole nine yards. We visit countries and have our passport stamped, etc. I have done it differently every year, but I have never been happy with my passport cover. The inside pages are fine, but the front of it is just not great. Does anyone have any ideas or things they could share? Instead of just doing it at the end of the year, I would like to make it at the beginning to use all year long.
that's my theme this year! i want to do passports, but i don't really know where to begin with them. i was going to use them as a homework incentive....a certain amount of stamps = free night of no homework.
I am going to be teaching 3rd, I like the passport idea. How can I fit that in with 3rd grade? I would like to hear more ideas/suggestions on what teachers are doing with this idea.
All of my files are at school, so I can't show you. I just have the page divided into fourths, with country name, capital, facts, favorite features...in the past we used the passports on our "European Excursion" Day, and the students would go around to each display board (students were responsible for a display board on their particular country, a food, etc.) and write about each country in their passport. They were then "stamped" and sent to the next country.
At the end of the year, my class also completes a "Culture Celebration" where they interview any staff member in the school. After they organize a luncheon where they play the role of host.
One or two months before the interview, every Friday a country becomes their center. They enter the "country" and their passport is stamped with a sticker. After they have experienced the center their next center consists of constrocting the country's flag in a 3 x 5 index card and in another card writing important facts or things that they learned about that country. They glue their cards into a booklet I made out of construction paper. The cover is just a large label that reads "Student Passport" and the first page is their application for the passport.
I use the countried featured in Time for Kids. I just save all of the different issues that feature a country for the end of the year.
I used passports for my class this past year as we had to study continents. I had a great book by Teacher Created Materials called Children Around the World:The Ultimate Field Trip. Here is the link http://school-toolscatalog.com/child...-p-152330.html
I used this book so much. It had info about many countries, how to say words in different languages, facts and ideas and activities related to each country, as well as, reproducables for passport stamps, luggage tags, postcard templates, etc. It also has a template to make passports in the begining.
We use "Passports to Genre" in Language. The kids get passports and each page is a different literary genre, and they get a stamp each time they read anything that fits the genre. If they get a stamp on each page, they get a little prize. The kids like it, and I've seen a few kids get into a new genre because they read a short story just to get the stamp, and ended up liking it!
This is the original file we used, though we've made some changes/added things for our grade 7/8s (those files are at school). I don't know where it came from originally - it was sent to us by someone else. It's a PDF file. I can't upload it here because it's too large. I've put it on our school website for now. If someone can let me know if it works (I'm not sure if our content management system will interfere with it loading properly) that would be great!
Hi PT Friends,
I while back I posted an example of how I used a passport idea in third and fourth grade for reading motivation with different genres. I attached a copy of what the inside pages looked like as well as attached a color copy of the passport covers I use. You used to be able to purchase the covers from really good stuff but they are now discontinued so I copied and attached it in hopes of others needing a cover could open the document and print it. Long story short you can check the busyboard as well as themes/bulletin boards for my post: Books Can Take You Anywhere-Passports. Hope this adds to your ideas.
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I did a postcard exchange last year. I made passports for the kids, and I downloaded mini license plates from each state. As we read the postcard, the students glued in that state's license plate.
I googled images/passport, and found the front cover of a passport book. I printed them out, and added blank white pages and stapled it all together.
I googled images/state license plates and found mini pictures of all the license plates.
If you are doing the world, you could put in their flags.
I like that idea...3rd grade does a state/cont. study for part of map skills and that would be a great idea to have them glue mini plates and/or flags into their "around the world and back" passports.
I would like to intergrate tech. with this idea somehow but still trying to figure that part out.
I'm loving the idea of using country flags. I'll be teaching 6th grade SS and it covers South America and Europe. Can't wait to find all my flags and create a passport.
07-27-2007, 08:59 AM
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