Interactive Story Maps: Design, Maker & Legends with 3rd Grade Part 3

The final step of the Native American Interactive Story map project was for 3rd graders to share their final project. Student wanted to be able to share their maps with not only their classmates but with the whole third grade. We were able to find a shared time for the whole grade and they were able to share with everyone. The interactive story maps were setup around the library. Students connected their elements, started their maps up and then walked around to see their classmates creations.


Everyone did a wonderful job with this project. Students really embraced the idea of creating an interactive map for their Native American legends study. They worked at all the stages of this project from the summarizing, ideating and designing, testing and reworking to creating a final project. What was also wonderful was that some of the projects had some technical difficulties but the students embraced that as well. They figured out how to make the project work in a new way. The fact that the students were able to take their original idea and rethink it when it did not work to find a way to make it work was, I think, one of the best outcomes of the project. I also feel it was another example of how the maker culture and movement can fit with literature and literacy studies.