Category Archives: Padlet
#TechTakeout Delivers Some Math To Baker Elementary School!
Friday the Tech Takeout crew had the great opportunity of taking over 4th grade at Baker Elementary School! Math has been one of the focus areas of the school so we decided to bring the math in our activities. We had such a great day filled with fun hands on technology infused stations. …
Tech Takeout MEASURES Up @ Adams Elementary
Last Friday the #TechTakeout crew went to Adams Elementary to do some awesome technology lessons with the fourth graders. As a group we planned four different interactive math stations for the students using digital tools such as Google Earth, Google Draw, CheckThis, and ActivInspire flipcharts. Everyone had a blast throughout the day! Check out what …
Making Change Video Story Problems
Today in Mrs. West’s third grade class at Short Pump Elementary School we made video story problems! They are currently learning about making change, so we used a few different tools to create our making change video story problems. First, the students planned their problem on paper by figuring out what they were going to …
Affixes iPad Palooza!
Today, JG and the Boys (Ryan Stein, Jim Covais, Julie Goode, and myself) took the show on the road to the 3rd graders at Highland Springs Elementary! Our focus was on affixes: prefixes, root words and suffixes. We kicked off the lesson by rocking out to Flocabulary‘s Prefix Rap. After a quick review of prefixes, suffixes, and root […] Continue reading
JG and the Boys on Social Media
Let me start off my saying that I absolutely love when I’m able to work with my fellow ITRTs. Yesterday I had the pleasure of working with Julie Goode, Tyler Hart and Ryan Stein. We call our ITRT teacher group…..(pause … Continue reading → Continue reading
Padlet Walkthrough
Here’s a video to get you started using Padlet in your classroom. I walk you through how to create a wall and share it out with your students. Have fun! Padlet Walkthrough from Jim Covais on Vimeo. Continue reading
Jamestown Rockers!
I had an awesome time co-teaching with my fellow ITRTs at Chamberlayne Elementary. It was a fun filled hour of instruction. Check out the video below.
Enhance Your Vocabulary Instruction
The main topic at our Friday Staff Development K-12 ITRT meeting was on vocabulary instruction. We focused on Marzano’s Six Steps to Vocabulary Instruction. After lunch, we had the entire afternoon to build and come up with some new strategies and ideas that teachers could use in their classroom. The elementary ITRTs threw togehter this […] Continue reading
