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=Unit Plan and Lesson Ideas:=

To begin my work with Inanimate Alice, I contacted the original home page of Inanimate Alice and downloaded their Teacher Education Pack.



Once I had the Education Pack to look over, I decided to pick out some lesson ideas that I thought would be fun and interesting for my students and still have educational value.

__**Here is the Digital Novel Study outline I set up for my students:**__



Here is some of the samples of the work my Gr. 8 students did on these booklets (keep in mind we ran out of time and did not complete the final project!):





After viewing 2 episodes of Inanimate Alice, I wanted to see how the Gr.8 students were feeling, so I set up a Lino- it site for them to leave their comments on sticky notes: Inanimate Alice Gr.8 Reflections

Inanimate Alice Gr.8 Reflections (2)

Since I had run out of time for the final projects, I had my students create Vokis of Alice. The students did this in one period and were only asked to introduce Alice...I would love to have expanded this lesson further!
 * Here is an example of a Voki:**

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After working with the gr.8 students, I thought it would be interesting to see how the __**gr.7 students**__ would react to Inanimate Alice. I had even less time working with them so we went straight into the episodes with just oral group discussions. However, I did one quick assignment where the students had to do a //**character sketch of Alice**// after Episode 3. Here is a few samples:





After having only really viewed the episodes on their own, I wanted to get a sense of what they thought about Inanimate Alice, so I prepared a Google Forms survey for the students to take. You can view the survey here:

INANIMATE ALICE FINAL REFLECTION

Although we never made it to the creation stage of making our own Inanimate Alice episodes, I found several that were done by other students on another teacher's wiki: http://aliceandfriends.wikispaces.com/IA+Student+Work Teachers: edgar.margo.i@edumail.vic.gov.au story.kate.e@edumail.vic.gov.au This is another amazing resource for finding ideas to implement Inanimate Alice in your curriculum!