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iPad Grammar: Phrasal Verb Machine

22 Mar

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Perfect for upper elementary and middle schoolers, The Phrasal Verb Machine is a fantastic free app for grammar practice.  Students can create their own phrases and watch each one animated (with an accompanying definition and example too!).  After playing around with the machine students can test their knowledge with exercises that pair pictures and examples.

Check out my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan using this app!

Check out my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan bundle for teaching ELA in the classroom! (Here’s bundle #2 and bundle #3!)

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Draw Symmetrical Figures on iPads

20 Mar

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There are great free math apps for fractions, math facts, graphs, math terms, and geometry. An app I love for drawing symmetry is Grid Drawing for Kids Lite.  Full of puzzles for students to solve, this fantastic free app is perfect for practicing symmetry!

Check out my Common Core aligned lesson plan using this app in the classroom!

Here’s a bundle of math iPad lesson plans aligned to the Common Core!

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MindSnacks: Kids Vocab

18 Mar

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I’m always looking for ways to improve my students’ domain specific vocabulary. Kids’ Vocab by MindSnacks is a new app that is engaging and rigorous. It provides a pronunciation guide, practice games, and lots of colorful graphics.  Kids’ Vocab includes free levels and the option to upgrade – check it out!

Check out my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan for using this app in your classroom!

Here’s a bundle of Common Core aligned iPad lessons in case you’re teaching different skills this week!

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Revolutionary Resource

13 Mar

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There are lots of resources for gathering information on the iPad.  For a different take on an encyclopedia try the Revolutionaries of the Past Century app.  This free app allows users to explore influential (and controversial) figures of the 20th century from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Raul Castro.  Search by movement or keyword to access a biography, photo, audio, and links to more information.

Here’s a Common Core aligned lesson plan that is perfect for biographies!

Check out this Common Core aligned lesson plan for another biography activity!

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iTooch for iPad Learning

11 Mar

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image_1There are lots of great apps for literacy and math practice and iTooch by eduPad is a platform that gives students lots of choices!

The free starter version has skill based questions for Language Arts, Math, and Science.  This free content is perfect for students ages 8-11 and the upgrade has even more. Your students will love the simple interface, lesson details (with vocabulary!) and scratchpad to work out their answers.

Check out my bundle of Common Core aligned iPad lesson plans for teaching math in your classroom!

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Oh No Fractions

8 Mar

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There are lots of great math apps I love using in my classroom, but my favorites are usually the ones that focus on one skill.  The simply designed Oh No Fractions is an excellent free iPad app that focuses on one skill – comparing fractions using models.  Perfect for reinforcing basic skills and helping students gain a conceptional understanding of fractions.

Check out my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan using this app!

Check out my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan bundle that includes a lesson using this app!

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Presidents vs. Aliens

6 Mar

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Stack the States is one of my favorite iPad geography games and Presidents vs. Aliens is a fun app that teaches facts and trivia about the presidents of the United States. It’s interactive and informative and a great way to use transition times between subject areas, as a behavior management incentive, or to kick off a unit on United States History.

Check out my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan using this app in the classroom!

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Math Graphs Test Prep

4 Mar

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I love using apps that foster collaboration in the math classroom. Make your preparation for state exams interactive and engaging with the free Graphs app. Students can answer questions based on bar graphs, line graphs and pie charts. It’s great test prep and a fantastic way to extend or review a unit on statistics and data.

Here’s my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan for using this app in the classroom!

Check out my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan bundle that includes a lesson using this app!

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Tellagami for Story Telling

27 Feb

There are so many great screencasting apps that I use in my classroom.  Tellagami is a fantastic free iPad app takes it to another level by allowing users to create their own avatars and place themselves anywhere they’d like (I’m “standing” in my classroom now.)  If you’re flipping your classroom, leaving a message for students to play when you’re pulled out for a meeting, or just looking to start off a lesson in a new way, you have to try Tellagami.

Check out my Common Core aligned lesson plan using this app in the classroom!

Use this app with my Common Core aligned lesson plan for the iPad camera!

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No More Rubber Bands: Virtual Geoboard

25 Feb

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There are so many tools I used as a student that are now available virtually on iPads.  One fabulous free app that fits into this category is the Geoboard.  Forget about rubber bands snapping around your classroom.  The virtual geoboard has everything you need to teach polygons, area, scaling and symmetry.

Check out my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan using this app!

Check out my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan bundle that includes a lesson using this app!

 

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Math Terms Glossary

22 Feb

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It’s important for all students to use math vocabulary when describing how they’ve solved a problem. Math Terms Glossary is a free app that students can use to access definitions of math terms.  Most entries include pictures and a Spanish translation of the definition.

Check out my Common Core aligned lesson plan bundle  for teaching math on iPads!

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Dropbox: Fill it up!

20 Feb

photo (7)I love using Dropbox  in my classroom, in fact I can’t live without it.  Dropbox is fantastic if you’re looking to conserve resources or save time making photocopies.
Here are just a few things that are in my students’ Dropboxes right now:

  • Vocabulary reference charts
  • Reader’s Theater scripts
  • Reading passages
  • Project Rubrics
  • Activity sheets that can be completed in other apps
  • PowerPoint/Keynote presentations

Check out my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan bundle with activity sheets that can be completed in other apps on your iPad!

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Financial Literacy: iPad Football

15 Feb

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I love using sports in my classroom and if you’re teaching economics you’ll want to check out Financial Football. This free app includes lessons for middle and high school students and a football game to test their skills.  It’s a fun way to introduce your students to financial literacy!

Not teaching economics? Check out my Common Core aligned bundle of Social Studies lesson plans for other iPad apps!

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TapQuiz Maps Geography Game

13 Feb

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I’ve shared some of my favorite apps for learning US geography and world geography. TapQuiz Map is a free game that tests your knowledge of the globe.  The player can focus on one region of the world at a time and see what countries and US states they can locate on a map. It even quizzes your knowledge of Canadian provinces.

Try this app with my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan!

Here’s another Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan that works great with this app!

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WatchUp to Customize Current Events

8 Feb

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There are lots of great ways to explore current events and I’ve shared some great free apps for accessing multimedia informational text.  One of my favorite news apps that I use at home and school is Watchup.  This free app allows you to create your own news program by choosing short clips from different news sources (EuroNews, AP, PBS, etc.).

I love customizing any tool to fit the need of my students and Watchup is a fantastic free app that allows you to do just that!

Use this app with my Common Core aligned iPad lesson plan on current events!

 

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Synonym Practice on iPads

6 Feb

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There are lots of great apps for teaching literacy to your students and here’s another to try out in your classroom. In Find Synonym the user unscrambles letters to spell out a synonym for the word presented.  It includes definitions for each word and you can even unlock the antonym level if you answer enough questions.

 

Check out my Common Core aligned lesson plan using this app in the classroom!

Here’s a Common Core aligned lesson plan for teaching literacy using iPads in your classroom!

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Documentaries for the iPad

4 Feb

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If you’re looking for a good resource for documentaries, SnagFilms is a fantastic app.  Completely free, with no requirement to sign up, SnagFilms offers a great variety of award winning documentaries.  Whether you’re looking to extend a lesson, kick off a unit or just learn more about a topic before teaching, you’ll want to check out this fantastic free app!

Check out my Common Core aligned lesson plan using this app in the classroom!

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Pic Collage to Make iPad Posters

30 Jan

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You might have used a app like this to create a scrapbook page of family pictures but it can be easily used in the classroom.  Pic Collage is a free app that allows users to take multiple images and place them on a blank canvas or within borders and add text and captions.  Students in my class use pictures that they’ve taken themselves or gathered from Google Image search.  They can save their “posters” to their Camera Roll and email their work.  These make great bulletin board items!

Check out my Common Core aligned lesson plan for using this app in your classroom!

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iPad MadLibs

30 Jan

Screen shot 2013-01-27 at 3.55.20 PMForget about the way you completed Mad Libs as a child – there’s an app for that!  The official Mad Libs app offers 21 free stories that can be used to reinforce literacy skills.  Have students identify parts of speech and create their own fill in the blank story.

Check out my Common Core aligned lesson plan using this app in the classroom!

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SnapGuide for How-Tos

28 Jan

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I love learning new things and SnapGuide is a fantastic free app that you must explore! Pinterest is a great place for gathering new ideas, and SnapGuide takes this concept to a whole new level.  SnapGuide is full of how-to guides that show step-by-step instructions on how to complete a variety of tasks.  You and your students can even create your own how-to guides using this free service!

Check out my Common Core aligned lesson plan for using this app!

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