Effective Strategies for Technology Integration:
Grades K-3 Science
Strategies to Promote Student Engagement
Classification
Students will classify objects according to the physical characteristics using sorting techniques in Jamboard to construct knowledge and make connections to the real-world.
Scientific Fact vs Opinion
Students distinguish between scientific fact and opinion using SMART activities such as Super Sort or Shout it Out to create and analyze statements.
Digital Graphic Organizers
Students will compare and contrast the states of matter and their attributes using SMART Lumio Graphic Organizers.
Strategies to Promote Discussion and Collaboration
Categorize Through Shout It Out!
Students categorize living and nonliving things by sharing their ideas through response apps (Shout It Out) and engage in discussion to make connections among their contributions.
Collaborative Workspace
Students share their knowledge of the effects of season changes on living things by contributing to a collaborative Workspace in SMART Lumio or a shared Google Doc, while demonstrating digital citizenship.
Collaborative Experiment
Students collaborate on a digital document such SMART Workspaces, to develop an experiment outline, following the framework of the Scientific Method.
Strategies to Promote Higher-Order Thinking
Inferencing
Students collect data on temperature using a teacher-created graph in a SMART Notebook slide (using infinite cloner and gallery pictures) to make inferences about weather patterns.
Analyze Data
Students will record data and analyze results for various experiments using Google Sheets to interpret and construct knowledge.
Curate Research & Data
Students curate information to add to interactive digital notebooks in Google Slides to demonstrate their understanding of the senses.
Examples of Creative Projects and Products
Comparing Ideas
Students compare and contrast the Life Cycle of two animals by creating a poster using Adobe express.
See an example HERE.
Develop and Analyze Graphs
Students make observations and identify patterns in the weather using bar graphs in Lumio.
See an example HERE.
Explaining Phenomena
Students synthesize their learning about renewable resources in their environment using Adobe Express Animate from Audio.
See an example HERE.