Category Archives: Examples
iPad Apps- Juxio
Tutorial by Karen Hues, ITRT
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Differentiation Using Keynote
One of my Kindergarten teachers, Vicky Rauchle, used Keynote to help differentiate writing instruction in her classroom. The idea is very simple and it won’t take long for you to replicate this idea for your students. Vicky found a variety &#… Continue reading
Famous Americans Kg Style
Mrs. Rhyne’s students made Story Kits on the famous Americans that they study. I love how Mrs. Rhyne uses the open ended apps for her students to show what they know. Here is a sample of their work.
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Changing the way we teach
Maggie Hos-McGrane is a veteran teacher with lots of international teaching experience. I read her blog all of the time, she is one of the people in my google reader where I spend all of my spare time catching up with the great things people are doing in education. This post really caught my eye […] Continue reading
Editing Practice Success
Necessity is the mother of invention for sure. While working with a grade 5 class and trying to go through some anchor papers to instruct students on why writing samples are scored the way they are; I got the idea that I could use google docs for this. I created a short writing sample (taken […] Continue reading
Jamestown
This lesson was done in Cheryl Ives’s 4th grade class at Glen Allen Elementary. The lesson has been submitted to Henrico 21 for the 2011-2012 school year. In my opinion, this project is a great example on how to integrate … Continue rea… Continue reading
Catapult Creations
Fourth graders in Mrs. Doyle’s class have been immersed in a cross curricular project this week. Combined with their study of Jamestown, and the Force, Motion, Energy unit in science, they are creating catapults. You can keep up with the entire project from her blog: http://blogs.henrico.k12.va.us/ddoyle, but I thought I would spotlight some aspects of […] Continue reading
Visiting the Moon with Wall-E
The graphics and videos used by NASA DLN are unbelievable. Our students got to hear, see, and speak with NASA today about the moon, the planets, and how the probes are giving us information. The students are blogging about it here: http://blogs.henrico.k12.va.us/pagross/sample-page/question-1/ There are two other pages of questions as well. Continue reading
Nasa Digital Learning Network
If you have not checked out the Nasa Learning Network please take a moment to look at the many many opportunities that are there for distance learning. Next week, on Dec. 13th, along with some very excited fourth graders, I will be mapping the moon with Wall-E. Nasa supplies the lesson plans prior to the […] Continue reading
