Silly Summer Glyph Activity

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What's inside this resource

This resource is a Silly Summer Glyph.

Students will get to build their own glyph by answering questions on each slide.

Tech tips and examples are included to guide students.

This activity can be assigned in Google Classroom or accessed in PowerPoint.

At the end, students will type a descriptive or narrative story about their glyph.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students translate personal survey answers (9 questions about summer plans, favorites and pets) into icon choices to build a symbolic "glyph" picture.
Students practice PowerPoint image-editing skills — copying, pasting, resizing, rotating and layering — to assemble their glyph board.
Students write a descriptive or narrative paragraph explaining their own glyph, or interpreting a classmate's.

Teaching tips

Review the Tech Tips slide as a class before starting, since students need copy/paste, resize, rotate and layering skills to build their glyph.
Use the completed "Icy Cream" example glyph and its paragraph as a model before students begin their own.
Have students exchange slides after finishing, so a classmate can practice interpreting and writing about someone else's glyph instead of only their own.

Skills covered

Digital image manipulation — students copy, paste, resize, rotate and layer icon images in PowerPoint to build their glyph board.
Data-to-symbol translation — students convert 9 personal survey answers (ice cream flavor, pets, dream destination, etc.) into a set of icons that visually represent them.
Descriptive/narrative writing — students write a paragraph explaining their own glyph or interpreting a classmate's.

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How does a student's answer become part of the glyph?

Each of the nine questions offers six icon choices; students copy the icon matching their answer and paste it onto their glyph board, then resize, rotate or layer it as needed.

What happens after a student finishes assembling their glyph?

They write a descriptive or narrative paragraph about it, or trade slides with a classmate and write about that student's glyph instead.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

glyph (data as symbols)
digital collage assembly
end-of-year reflection

Topics

May summer glyph silly summer creative writing

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Summer Activities 6th Grade Activities 2nd Grade Activities 3rd Grade Activities 4th Grade Activities 5th Grade Activities

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