Grade 1
Allows the students to create their own storybooks with photos and illustrations. It allows students to work creatively with this platform to show off their learning in fun and engaging ways.
Here are some activities to do in the classroom with this app:
An app that allows students to play fun games that help teach students common spelling words. It allows students to work with words and learn them indiviudally and in a class setting.
The creators have created so many resources for teachers to use in addition to the app:
An app perfect for grades K-2, filled with hundreds of games that allow students to practice math skills.
A platform that allows students to engage with by taking pictures, draw, record videos, and keep a portfolio which all can be shared with their teacher.
A website that provides teachers will access to an entire library of "brain break" videos.
A platform that allows students to have access to over hundreds of books to help engage them through games and videos along with reading.
Grade 2
A program that allows students to annotated and interact with documents online and offline anywhere. They can work on documents that they created or even pre-generated ones that the program has.
Here is a really good lesson plan to get started with the students:
https://www.commonsense.org/education/lesson-plans/annotating-with-kami
After this lesson, you will be able to use Kami in all sorts of lessons as well as in peer editing situations.
This website allows students to watch videos on certain topics revolving science, math, social studies, health, reading, and writing. There are also games, quizzes, and interactive activities that the students can do.
Here are some good lesson plans using this website:
An app perfect for grades K-2, filled with hundreds of games that allow students to practice math skills.
This is a platform that has so many e-books available to kids that are right for their reading level. This platform allows them to work on vocabulary and take reading quizzes.
A platform that allows students to engage with by taking pictures, draw, record videos, and keep a portfolio which all can be shared with their teacher.
This is a great website filled with so many different science lessons. It gives lesson plans to teachers but it allows the students to watch the video on their own and have the directions virtually.
Grade 3
This app publishes daily interactive current events articles that students are able to work with and read. All the articles cover different topic and helps try to bring different perspectives and ideas to the students.
The creators of this awesome app have also provided some lesson plans to use along side of it!
The teacher is able to create recording and writing prompts that the students are able to access. The students are then able to respond by typing or recording their answers. Their answers are then sent to the teacher, from their the teacher can keep them just for themselves or there is an option to share with others.
A website that allows students to learn math, geography, and vocabulary through different games.
An app that teaches students about environmental issues and how to solve them when they occur on their virtual island.
A website that allows student to log, review, and rate books. It also allows them to look at books and get other student reviews on them.
An app that allows the students to explore anywhere in the world and learn more about the animals, indigenious people, and more of a specific area.
Grade 4
This is such a good tool for the kids because it is super interactive and fun. It has many activities as well as a TV show that they are able to watch.
PBS also provides so many good resources to use in the classroom along side this tool. One of my favorites is a text sent to teachers with weekly activities all year long!
This is a program that allows the students to interact through an adventure that has them work on their math skills at their own level. It is done individually and allows the students to work at the level and ability at which they are at.
https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/lesson-supplementation-tool/
This website allows students to answer multiple choice questions that work on different subject areas. If they get the question right then 10 grains of rice are donated to the UN World Food Program.
This website allows students to watch videos on certain topics revolving science, math, social studies, health, reading, and writing. There are also games, quizzes, and interactive activities that the students can do.
A website that provides teachers will access to an entire library of "brain break" videos.
A website that focuses on the student's skill level and then adapts. It works through fun and interactive games that cover all sorts of math topics.
Grade 5
This is a great website filled with so many different science lessons. It gives lesson plans to teachers but it allows the students to watch the video on their own and have the directions virtually.
Great at this age so they can also start to write their own procedures in their science notebooks.
Here you can ascess all the lesson plans:
This program allows students to work at their level of understanding in math with fun games that increases their engagement and their learning.
The creators have created lesson plans that teachers can use allow side the program:
An app that allows the students to explore anywhere in the world and learn more about the animals, indigenious people, and more of a specific area.
A website that provides teachers will access to an entire library of "brain break" videos.
A website that focuses on the student's skill level and then adapts. It works through fun and interactive games that cover all sorts of math topics.
A webstie that is a great tool to help with basic information about things. It is such a great tool to use at home when students are stumped on a topic.
Grade 6
This is a game program that allows teachers to create interactive trivia game about any topic. From there, students are able interact in a whole class setting as well as now individual with the special game code.
Another game program similar to Kahoot. This allows teachers to use a created Quizlet to play an interactive game. Students work in teams to work together to get all the cards matched the fastest.
https://ditchthattextbook.com/6-new-ways-to-play-a-quizlet-live-game/
A program that allows students to annotated and interact with documents online and offline anywhere. They can work on documents that they created or even pre-generated ones that the program has.
This program allows students to create slide presentations about any topic. It saves automatically and they are able to access it on any device and share with anyone.
A website that allows students to view other videos for additional support and more information on a topic. This is super helpful with at home use when doing homework when there is confusion.
This program is connected to their Google accounts and allows them to be in multiple classrooms. In these classrooms teachers are able to post announcements and assignments that all the students are able to access.