Story+Starters,+Ideas,+Lesson+Plans,+&+Projects

= Story Starters & Prompts = Story It Scholastic's Story Starter Machine The Story Starter Sentence Generator Story Starter Jr. Writing Fix Promote Thinking with Stories Online Magnet Links Links to Idea Generators Prompts from the Maine Writing Project

= Ideas for Stories =

21st Century Teaching Ideas for PhotoStory3 Portal Ideas for Digital Stories Across the Curriculum Portal
 * Create a VoiceThread like this one featuring photos and questions about each that that can be used for ideas.Cog Dog Roo VoiceThread
 * Create a set of pictures from Flickr and show with projector
 * [|Sunrise]- a time to re-energize, start over
 * [|Road] - a theme of travel, movement, going somewhere
 * [|Despair] - devastation, loss of hope, travesty
 * [|Grandmother]- someone special in your life
 * Favorite childhood pet
 * Memorable vacation
 * Place you would like to visit
 * Adventurous thing you have done

= Grade Level Ideas =

For Elementary Students

 * What you did last weekend
 * Fantasy story
 * Important event in your life
 * Story to illustrate math concepts

For Middle School Students
> For High School Students:
 * Biography/Autobiography
 * Story about an environmental problelm
 * Story as told by historical figure (Confucius, Joan of Arc, etc)
 * Multiending Story
 * Fictional narrative
 * Story to illustrate a loaw of physics or scientific theory
 * Create a story that identifies social or political problem

= Lesson Plans & Activities = 9 MovieMaker Lesson Plans Web English Teachers Digital Storytelling Resources Eduscapes Digital Storytelling Resources Technology-enhanced Learning grade level activities Creating A Digital Documentary8th grade TrackStar Storytelling Activities & Lesson Plans TrackStar Links for Teachers TrackStar Story Arts PBS Multimedia Storytelling Story Arts Lesson Plans and Activities

= Projects = Celebrate Kansas Voices Our Progressive Stories Life 'Round Here ePals Digital Storytelling Project Educational Snippets