KidPix (http://www.kidpix.com/) is a multimedia program for students.  It's best used with grades K-3, though lessons can be modified and used with older grades as well.  There are several parts of KidPix:  KidPix (graphics), Moopies (moving pictures), Stampimator (animated stamps), and Slide Show.

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Let students use drawing tools or stamps to reinforce a lesson on community helpers.  They can also use these tools to discuss career choices and what they want to be when they finish school.  Exact method will vary with age level.  Use stamps with K-2, and drawing tools with upper grades.  Some ideas are police officers, firefighters, and pilots.
Integration:  Social Studies - Community Workers

Make posters for Earth Day (in April) to convince people to save our planet.
Integration:  Science - Conservation

Students can make maps of various places:
Bedroom
Classroom
School
Playground
Etc.
Lower grades can use stamps as symbols.  2-3 grades can add basic use of a map key.  4-5 grades can do maps related to topics of study, and use more involved details and map keys.
Integration:  Social Studies - Maps

For a good dental hygiene exercise, find a picture of a tooth and scan it.  You might even have students draw pictures of teeth (they need one large tooth).  Save the pictures to their diskettes.  Have them open the picture files in KidPix, then use the stamps to find food that is good for your teeth.  They can stamp those foods on the picture of the tooth.  If they find foods that are unhealthy for the teeth, have them stamp the foods outside the tooth.
A variation is to put all the foods on the outside of the tooth and use the moving van tool to put the healthy foods inside the tooth.
Integration:  Science - Dental Hygiene

Take the letter you are working on and have the kids write, type or stamp it and then find stamps that begin with the same sound and have them stamp those pictures. Take their pictures and make them into an alphabet slideshow.
Integration:  Language Arts - Alphabet/Letter Recognition

Stamp numbers and next to them stamp the correct number of one of the stamps, or make 5 circles (or squares) using the shapes tools.  One idea is to make a spring counting book using the slideshow option. First list spring things.  Write them on a chart and draw a small picture next to them.  Have each child pick a number (numbers 1-20) and first on paper have them write their number and the number word.  Then let them pick a spring thing and draw that many.  After they finish planning on paper, have them go to the computer and recreate it in KidPix.  Save the files and put them together to make a slide show.  Be sure to use the applause effect and list the authors' names on the last page.
Integration:  Math - Number recognition

Let students use the drawing and shape tools to reinforce what they know about shapes (circle, square, rectangle, etc.).  Call out a certain shape for them to draw.  Call out a certain color for them to use to fill the shape.  They can also use the pattern tools at the bottom.  You can turn this into a shapes lesson, a colors lesson, or a patterns lesson.
Integration:  Math - Shapes

Select the eraser, then the question mark and have the children erase the screen to reveal the hidden picture. This is a good exercise in mouse control, and the children can then learn to print and save these pictures. They may show their pictures to the rest of the class and tell everyone about them.
Select the letter stamp with the option key depressed to access the keyboard. Have the children practice writing the alphabet from the keyboard. This reinforces their knowledge of the alphabet while it introduces them to the QWERTY keyboard.
Use the stamps and the various drawing tools to illustrate stories the children have read. Teach them how to edit the stamps as an introduction to the concept of editing.  (By Kathy Hagar)
Integration:  Technology - Computer skills

Students make addition and subtraction problems using stamps.  Can use them to show various mathematical properties.
Integration:  Math - Addition, Subtraction

Counting Small Numbers - Use the shift, option and control keys to enlarge the stamps. Stamp several onto the page and count as you go. Use the number stamps to stamp a number on each object on the screen. Teddy Bears work really well. At largest size, their bellies are just the right size for a number.
Counting in Tens - Use the star paintbrush to paint a large numb of stars onto the screen. Select the pencil tool and a color, and then have the students tick off 10 of the stars together. Draw a loop around the group of ten. Repeat this with a different color until all possible groups of  ten have been made. The fill tool can be used to further highlight the different groups. Use the number and alphabet stamps to write how many tens and how many ones are left, then the actual number. You can make some wonderful number charts using this technique. The other stamps can be used instead of the paintbrush tool.
Integration:  Math - Counting/grouping by tens

Practice spelling words, using the letter stamps.  Do sorting and patterning activities using the picture stamps. When learning place value stamp as many of one object (i.e. stars) as you can in one minute.  Then go back and use the pencil tool to circle groups of tens, count the ones that are left over, and stamp the total number.  Make up + and - equations using the stamps.  Stamp the pictures, then write the number equation to go with it.
Integration:  Language Arts and Math
 
 

Take each child's picture with a digital camera.  Save the pictures onto each child's disk, then when the students go to their computer, have them open the photo using KidPix.  Let them use the eraser to erase all the background behind them, leaving only their face showing.  They can use other tools to draw an endangered animal body around their face.
Integration:  Science - Endangered animals and why they need to be protected.

Students can write poems. Choose "Alphabet Text" from the Goodies menu. Then have them type their poems in simple sentences. "I like ice cream.....or....Mom is great.........." Then click "ok".  Go to the paintbrush and draw a picture. The sentence will appear on the screen as their picture. They can drag the paintbrush several times and the sentence will continue.
Integration:  Language Arts - poetry

Students can use the line tool to divide the screen into four blocks.  They can use the typewriter tool to type labels in the box.  Then they use the stamps to stamp objects in each section.  Some ideas are:
Zoo animals - farm, birds, ocean, mammals
Colors - yellow, blue, green, red
Seasons - fall, winter, spring, summer
Ideas aren't limited to just these.  You can classify any number of objects using the stamps.
Integration:  Science - Sorting and classification

Line Maze - It is pretty simple to create a maze, and it is a great idea for hand-eye coordination. Use the line tool to draw borders, identify a starting point (e.g. bike stamp) and a finishing point (e.g. the house stamp), and have the child use a pencil to draw the path through the maze.
Informal Maze - For an easier activity along the line of the above, just stamp a few trees in the middle of the screen and have the students draw a line from the starting point to the finishing point without touching the screen.  If the above mazes are all to hard, simply stamp a starting and finishing point on the screen and don't worry about obstacles.
Integration:  Math - Mazes

To learn all about KidPix tools, go to Learning Space.

To learn how to make a slide show in KidPix, go to this page at Learning Space.

Graphics-you can import graphics from other programs. Just copy them onto the Clipboard. When in Kid Pix, go to Edit and Paste. You could also import photographs from programs and scanners.

Changing Stamp Sizes- There are four sizes to stamps. The smallest is the regular stamp. Then, if you push the "option" key it gets bigger. If you press the "Shift" key, it gets bigger, and if you press "Option" and "Shift"at the same time, it gets even bigger.

Editing Stamps- If you double click on a stamp, it will take you to the Stamp Editor. You can use it to make new stamps. In addition, you can always go back to the original stamp.