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Dr. Seuss Technology Related Activity Ideas

For Dr. Seuss week, I wanted to share some technology activities you could implement whole class or have your students work on independently: -Dr. Seuss Digital Breakout for Grades K-2 (click on the “Holidays” tab and scroll to the bottom … Continue reading Continue reading

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Explaining 2nd grade Math using the Seesaw App

2nd graders in Mrs. Robertson’s class are learning about two digit addition and subtraction. First, students chose two word problems provided by Mrs. Robertson. Using the iPad Seesaw app, students scanned their class QR code to connect to Mrs. Robertson’s … Continue reading Continue reading

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Reviewing for Science using Book Creator

5th Graders in Mrs. Gilliam’s class are reviewing for their science benchmarks. As part of the review process, students created books on various science topics using the computer version of Book Creator. They accessed Book Creator through Clever. Prior to … Continue reading Continue reading

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Valentine’s Day Activities

Third graders in Ms. Lehman’s class chose between two digital activities related to Valentine’s Day. Templates for these activities were found at: http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2018/02/valentine-activities.html I copied the links for the Rebus Story activity and the Magnetic Poetry into the Server Shortcuts … Continue reading Continue reading

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Learning about Clean Water with Digital Tools

Mrs. Abban’s 3rd graders have been researching about the importance of clean water. Part of the research process included a Google Hangout with the founder of Ryan’s Well Foundation, Ryan Hreljac. This is a “Canadian charitable organization providing effective and … Continue reading Continue reading

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Newspaper Templates

5th graders in Ms. Hughes’s class are creating newspapers as part of a class assignment. Ms. Hughes wanted students to have options in choosing a template so that students didn’t have to create one on their own. Fellow ITRT, Karen … Continue reading Continue reading

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First Graders can code too!

With the Hour of Code week approaching, teachers have been reaching out to me to introduce their students to the basics of coding. I worked with Ms. Munro’s first grade class and introduced them to the website code.org. There are … Continue reading Continue reading

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Road Trip across the United States using Ozobots

A couple of weeks ago, students in Ms. Brennan’s class had an introductory Ozobot lesson. During this time, I introduced the Ozobots and showed them how the color coding works with white paper and markers. The students had an opportunity … Continue reading Continue reading

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Decimal Word Problems in Schoology

Fifth graders in Mrs. Gilliam’s class created their own decimal word problems. Mrs. Gilliam shared a Google slides template in Schoology that she wanted her students to use to create their word problem to share with classmates. To do this, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Decimal Word Problems in Schoology

Fifth graders in Mrs. Gilliam’s class created their own decimal word problems. Mrs. Gilliam shared a Google slides template in Schoology that she wanted her students to use to create their word problem to share with classmates. To do this, … Continue reading Continue reading

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