The Monster Project

My awesome friend Chad Lehman just posted an article on his blog about The Monster Project he just did with his 3rd and 4th grade classes.  While he chose to do it with 3rd and 4th, it could easily be adapted to other grades as well. Take a look at what he wrote on his blog (sorry, his blog is blocked for SCS teachers so I had to copy and paste):

"My third and fourth grade classes are participating in the Monster Project. All five of my classes are connecting with classes in Illinois, California, Florida, and Alberta. The project is rather simple, but really, really fun. Students create and draw a monster. Then, they write a descriptive paragraph about their monster. The writing is shared with another class and the new classes draws the monster based on the written description. Then, the monster drawings are compared. If the students do a great job in their writing, the monster pictures should look pretty similar. If not, the students can take a look at their writing and see where they could have improved. Pretty cool, huh?"

Great project and he used Google to do it.  You could use Google Drive to write the descriptions and use Google Drawings to draw the monsters!  If you attempt a project like this, I'd love to hear about it!