First graders at Chamberlayne have been learning about the parts of a flower (SOL 1.4) and their teachers wanted to try something new with the iPads. We combined their classroom iPads together so we had enough for each student, and we used 3 different apps to make labeled diagrams of flowers. First the students could use the Camera app or the Drawing Box app to take a picture of a flower or draw their own picture. The teacher took the students who wanted to take a picture outside, and I worked with the ones who wanted to use Drawing Box. They had to include the roots, stem, leaves, flowers and maybe seeds. Since the pictures were all saved to the Camera Roll, we could access them from the Labelbox app. The Labelbox app allows you to add colorful labels to pictures. The only part that was confusing for the students was that if you drag the label the wrong way, the text is upside down! But they were able to label their pictures and we posted them all online to a site called CoMemories. It’s a great way to share projects from the iPads. You can see them all here.
