Tap Tap Blocks is a great app to use when working with 3D shapes. Students have to use solid figures to create new shapes. Using linking cubes and this app, students are engaged and excited. They worked with a partner. One student built something with cubes and the partner used the iPad to build the same design on the app. The app allows them to manipulate colors, size, and movement of the blocks. Check out more pictures on our blog.
This week, my class completed a lesson planned for a community presentation for our 1:1 initiative in July. I was very excited to see this lesson come to life in my classroom. I am posting 4 examples of our student product. My students were presented with a problem...Bears from the Smoky Mountains were invading our campus. They did research to find out why. We discovered open trash bins were the issue. We then researched solutions. You will notice our discovery in these projects. My class was then challenged to produce an Adobe Voice convincing our superintendent to upgrade our trash cans at SHE. We are eager to hear his response!
Research was conducted through books and videos posted to a padlet wall and an article in the app Subtext. Photographs for the Adobe Voice were accessed through a different padlet wall where students learned to save images to their camera roll and upload in Adobe. We are very familiar with padlet and Adobe but learned new tech skills accessing Subtext and moving pictures to our device. Proud moments this week in 1st grade! We have also been practicing opinion and informative writing. There were no guidelines on how long the project needed to be, simply that they needed to have an introduction, state the problem and defend the issue, present a solution, and have a closing. Check these out... http://voice.adobe.com/v/4DGT76ro3-k http://voice.adobe.com/v/66DqG6SomIj http://voice.adobe.com/v/DswIYLhbdrd http://voice.adobe.com/v/KbwR4F_BPCI |
Dee Dulin1st grade teacher infusing STEM, PBL, and 1:1 mini-ipads Archives
February 2017
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