Pixie Samples and Lessons CD
Pixie 2 Introduction Video
Software Features of Pixie
Pixie is exciting creativity software students can use to further their exploration of the world around them. Whether students demonstrate their understanding and knowledge through activities and directed work, or showcase their creativity and imagination with original art and writing, Pixie is the only canvas they need.
Classroom Integration Ideas for Pixie
You can use Pixie creativity software to meet your curriculum goals across multiple subject areas. Students can explore existing activities that teach and assess student understanding and create original work that demonstrates comprehension of classroom topics. You can also extend observation, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills with student-created projects that incorporate painting, matching, writing, storytelling, narration, and more. Explore the resources below to learn more about Pixie, find correllations to your state curriculum standards, and explore sample student projects.
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Activities
Pixie 2 includes more than 500 curriculum activities to help teachers and students connect their technology work to the classroom curriculum. To access the Activities, click the Open button and choose Activities. If your computer is connected to the Internet you will see additional activities from the media server. |
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Trading Post
The Trading Post is the place to share your Pixie ideas and find new ways to inspire your students! You can search the Trading Post for Pixie Activities, templates, ideas, and sample student projects. Do you have a unique Pixie project you created to help scaffold student learning? Share it with other teachers at the Trading Post! |
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Lessons
As you build expertise and confidence with technology, you and your students can move to more open-ended and creative projects. To explore sample lessons using Pixie, click here. |
Standards
Use the fields below to view content standards correlations for Pixie specific to your state, subject, and grade. Since you can meet each standard in a variety of ways, next to each standard you will see columns for Pixie Activities, Pixie Tasks, and Pixie Lessons. For more information on how to read these standards documents, click here.
Sample Student Projects
View the samples below to get a few ideas that will help you integrate Pixie into your classroom curriculum. Click the sample image to open the image at full size, play the movie, or launch the web site.
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To practice initial sounds, have students choose a letter of the alphabet and create a Pixie page that includes a "Cool Letter", stickers that represent words that begin with this letter, and narration about this letter. |
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Have students retell and illustrate stories they have read, or go even further and have them create new endings or even new versions of the same story. |
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Have students work in small groups to create preposition stories. Have them come up with a character and setting and then create a page for each prepositional phrase. |
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Have students retell fables, fairy tales, tall tales, or myths and legends. Making them characters in the story can help engage them and promotes fluency skills. |
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Have students choose a scientific cycle, such as the butterfly life cycle or water cycle, and illustrate it. |
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Have students create their own nonfiction books for plants, animals, or biomes. |
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After students learn about an artistic style, have them create their own masterpieces in this style. |
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Training Tools for Pixie
You've watched the intro video, have Pixie installed on your computer, and are ready to strike out on your own. Use the resources below to get an overview of what you can do with this exciting creativity tool, find answers to specific questions, and learn how to customize Pixie for universal access and whiteboards.
Pixie - Creativity software to engage young minds
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Pixie 2 Introduction Video
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