Category Archives: ipad
States of Matter With iPads!
Julie Smith, one of the amazing Elementary ITRTs in Henrico County, shared this lesson and the resources with me. She is AWESOME, you should definitely check her blog out! I tried this lesson with a 3rd grade class at Kaechele Elementary School, and had a blast! I started the lesson out by sharing a …
Native American App Smash
We had a blast making videos and smashing apps in 2nd grade! The students were learning about the Eastern Woodlands Native Americans and I wanted to give them a chance to show everything they knew in a fun new way. We recently received 26 iPads from the PTA at Short Pump Elementary, so I have …
Native American App Smash
We had a blast making videos and smashing apps in 2nd grade! The students were learning about the Eastern Woodlands Native Americans and I wanted to give them a chance to show everything they knew in a fun new way. We recently received 26 iPads from the PTA at Short Pump Elementary, so I have …
Graphing With ChatterPix
Today I worked with the kindergarten classes at Kaechele Elementary. We worked with picture graphs and ChatterPix and it was great! I used some pictures from an amazing ITRT that I work with, Julie Smith! She has them posted here. We used the November pictures so we could talk about Fall and Thanksgiving…I mean who …
Shadow Plants
I recently had the pleasure of co-teaching with Ms. Gibson at Adams Elementary. Her first graders had been learning about plants and she wanted a fun interactive way to demonstrate their knowledge. After our planning meeting we decided to use Shadow Puppet Edu. This is Continue reading
Commutative and Identity Properties
In 3rd grade at Short Pump Elementary they were talking about the commutative and identity properties of addition. I wanted to make this lesson as fun as possible, so I thought to myself…hmm what could make a lesson on this more fun, maybe iPads! I really love the app Videolicious and so do the kids! I …
3rd Grade App Smash
We had a blast at Crestview smashing some great apps together! The students were learning about food chains so the teachers wanted to focus on important terms such as predator, prey, consumer, and producer. At Crestview we have enough iPads in the library and the classes to pair the students up to work on whole …
Kindergarten Insect Selfies
Today in Mrs. Rademacher’s kindergarten class at Kaechele Elementary we turned ourselves into insects! The students had just finished learning all about insects so we used PicMix to have a little fun. Mrs. Rademacher gathered a handful of pictures for the students to use and put them in a Google folder. I made a QR …
#TechTakeout Gets Creative At Carver!
Today the #TechTakeout crew went over to Carver Elementary to work with some amazing kindergarten students and teachers! We had a blast working on some Math skills on both iPads and computers. As a group we made sure to focus on particular skills that the students had trouble with throughout the year. Even though we …
3rd Grade Soil App Smash
Today in Mrs. Bagley’s 3rd grade class at Kaechele we had a great time doing an app smash covering soil! The students have been learning about the different layers and their characteristics so this was a great way to put their knowledge into action! To make our final project we used a total of 3 different apps …
