SeeSaw Ideas

 

SeeSaw Ideas

For those grades piloting SeeSaw (PreK, 3 and 5) this year here are some ideas on how to use SeeSaw in your Classes:

• Record your student reading a passage
• Have students take a picture of a completed work and then record their voice explaining why they selected this piece
• Have students take a picture of a book they've read and write a review for the book
• Take a picture of students having an experience and then write or record about what they were feeling.

The link at the top takes you to the SeeSaw Ideas page where you can search by grade level to find ideas on way to incorporate SeeSaw into your classes. 

SeeSaw PD

BrainPop Jr

 

BrainPop Jr

For those in grades K-2 we have a BrainPop Jr account.  Why should those in grade K-3 not use BrainPop?  The videos and activities on BrainPop Jr are geared to younger students are are free from any developmentally questionable material.  They also use vocabulary that is easier for younger students to understand.  The activities are created with younger students in mind, unlike BrainPop which gears it's videos and activities to older students in Middle and High School. 

Looking for ways to use BrainPop Jr in your classroom?  Here are some great ideasfrom BrainPop on how best to use the Junior versions. 

Looking for lesson ideas, BrainPop Jr has lots of great lesson planning ideas for you.

Time Lines

There are a lot of digital Time Line tools out there, here are a few of them that could prove useful in grades 3-6.

Sutori is an online timeline creation tool allowing you to add images, video and quizzes.  Even though it is intended for schools, you can set up your family as a “class” to keep all the timelines in one place.  Sutori claims to integrate closely with Google Classroom, which enables you to import classes and students directly onto their platform. 

Read, Write, Think "allows students to create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line. Timelines can be organized by time of day, date, or event, and the tool allows users to create a label with short or long descriptive text. Adding an image for each label makes a timeline more visually appealing."

BrainPop: Time Zone X is a series of timeline games from BrainPop.  They have an offline version of the game where students use blank Time Zone X cards to create their own game! This printable resource is designed with 4 cards to a page.

 

Human Body iPad App

The Human Body by Tinybop is a one of our newer iPad apps it is on the lap iPads which can be used by booking the lab. 

"Explore an interactive model Dive into the skeletal, muscular, nervous, circulatory, respiratory, and digestive systems. The heart beats, guts gurgle, lungs breathe, and eyes see. 

Discover how hearing works. Play music or talk into the microphone to send sound vibrations through the ear canal. Travel into the intestines. Feed the body a feast and watch out for burps, barfs, and farts!  

Learn in 50+ languages. Interactive labels in over 50 languages, including Chinese, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Japanese — and more!"

ChromaKids

 

ChromaKids

ChromaKids is inspired by the work of author/illustrator Todd Parr. The ChromaKids app invites  children to become storytellers! Discover an interactive artistic experience for children ages three and older. ChromaKids ignites fun and excitement in a creative and collaborative exchange of stories. 

Creators at my use sticker and drawing tools to create original art work like the beloved author/illustrator Todd Parr.