Author Archives: Karen
Decimal Addition & Subtraction in Educreations
These 5th Grade students used educreations.com on the laptops last week to show how to solve order of operations problems. They enjoyed it so much that the classroom teacher and I decided to try to use the same resource for … Continue reading → Continue reading
SCA Voting using Google Forms
It’s that time of year when many schools are electing officers for the SCA. Rather than doing a lot of coding in Quia, you may want to consider using a Google Form. With Google Forms, you can insert an image … Continue reading → Continue reading
Word Study in Google Presentation
This 3rd grade class is using Google Presentation to complete their word study sorts. The students log into their Google account and create a new presentation. Then they click to create a new text box and type one of their … Continue reading → Continue reading
Gallon Girl
The students used Google Draw to create a creature that demonstrated their understand of liquid measurement. They were allowed to choose any shapes they wanted, they just had to make sure to create a key and use the correct number … Continue reading → Continue reading
Fall Patterns on Pixie App
Video Oct 02, 10 35 58 AM from Karen Hues on Vimeo. In this lesson, Kindergarten students practiced searching through the database of Stikers in Pixie to locate fall pictures to use in their pattern. The students created a pattern, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Getting Started with Google Drive in Your Classroom
At this point, I have helped all 5th, 4th, and most 3rd grade classes get set up in Google Drive. I would love to help 2nd, 1st, and KG as well, so just sign up whenever you are ready. Attached … Continue reading → Continue reading
Order of Operations in Educreations
In preparation for this lesson, the teacher went to educreations.com and created an account. Upon doing so, he was provided with a class code. When the students went to the educreations.com site, they clicked on register as a student and … Continue reading → Continue reading
Place Value in Google Docs with Vocaroo
This 3rd grade class has been working on place value. The students made a copy of this document in their Google accounts and then color coded their number to show which place each number is in. After that, they recorded … Continue reading → Continue reading
Plate Tectonics in Google Maps
A 5th grade teacher approached me with an idea to introduce tectonic plates to her students. In the past, she had the students plot the coordinates on an overhead sheet with the world map on it. Then they would lay … Continue reading → Continue reading
Position Words in Pixie
In math, the students have been working on position words (above, below, next to, etc.). To familiarize the students with the new Pixie app, the students created a fall scene by following verbal directions which included the position words they … Continue reading → Continue reading
