Looking for a good way to teach kids about nouns & verbs? Here’s a technology solution! Get your hands on a digital camera AND a digital video camera. Let the kids experiment with the two different cameras, guiding them to the conclusion that nouns are things you could take a still picture of – using the digital camera. Verbs are things that you would need to use the video camera for – to catch the action! Of course there are always exceptions – some words that wouldn’t quite work in this scenario, but I think you get the “picture”, and I think that kids will not soon forget the difference between a noun and a verb!
Oh, the title of this post is linked to the National Educational Technology Consortium’s website. They have a couple of publications there that talk about wasy to use technology to teach literacy.