Seesaw: Ideas for Use
For Encore, Intervention, and Other Non-HR Teachers
>> Art <<
- Take pictures of your students working, tag the students in the photo, and post to their Seesaw journals.
- Let students take a photo of something they learned or accomplished today. Add their voice to the photo to explain their choice.
- Exit ticket: students can write or film themselves speaking about one thing they learned and a question they still have about the day's lesson.
- Have students sketch their goals in the built-in whiteboard. Every week, month, or semester let students revisit those goals to update their progress.
- Student A holds the iPad to record Student B demonstrating a skill.
- Students can app-smash to depict a timelapse video where they show each step in a project they complete. Turn the video into Seesaw.
- Send links to kid-friendly webpages or videos regarding famous artists or techniques you're studying.
- Consider allowing students to take home only their best work and just take and upload photos of everything else.
- Upload a drawing-starter template for students (like a drawing of just two lines) and have students complete the drawing using the built-in whiteboard.
- Allow students to create some of their art projects on/with an iPad. You can use apps such as iMovie, Paper 53, Book Creator, Adobe Spark Video, Koma Koma, Explain Everything, MoMA Art Lab, or a green screen app. Then upload the final project to Seesaw.
>> CARE <<
- Take pictures of your students working, tag the student in the photo (make sure it's not more than one student -- for privacy purposes), and post to their Seesaw journals.
- Let students take a photo of something they learned or accomplished today. Add their voice to the photo to explain their choice.
- Exit ticket: students can write or film themselves speaking about one thing they learned and a question they still have about the day's lesson.
- Have students sketch their goals in the built-in whiteboard. Every week, month, or semester let students revisit those goals to update their progress.
- The teacher (or another student) holds the iPad to record a student demonstrating a skill.
- Record students reading. Students can use this video to hear themselves speak (and compare it to your speaking), track their improvements over time, and critique their writing to make sure it makes sense.
- Create a word sort in Activities and allow students to sort key words by patter.
- Let students drag letters to create words of their own. (See slide 40 of this presentation for an example.)
- Give students templates for how to build words, and let them annotate on top of the template to work on spelling. (See slide 43 of this presentation for an example.)
- Ask students to take a picture of the cover of the book they're reading and then use the built-in microphone to record themselves retelling the story. (You could also upload a graphic organizer to the Activities and let students annotate on top of it for this assignment.)
- Ask students to draw a picture of the main character in a story they're reading. Afterwards, they can use the text labels to add character traits around their drawing. Finally, use the built-in microphone to record an explanation of why each character trait was chosen.
- Use Activities to create a rhyming challenge. (See slide 9 of this presentation for an example.)
- Let students use Seesaw as a way to submit book snaps.
- Give letter assessments inside of Seesaw (Example 1 - slide 35, example 2 - slide 36, example 3 - slide 37)
- Ask students to work on beginning or ending sounds by dragging emojis into different columns.
- Ask students to identify the number of syllables in a word by dragging emojis into different columns.
>> Computer Lab <<
- Take pictures of your students working, tag the students in the photo, and post to their Seesaw journals.
- Let students take a photo of something they learned or accomplished today. Add their voice to the photo to explain their choice.
- Exit ticket: students can write or film themselves speaking about one thing they learned and a question they still have about the day's lesson.
- Have students sketch their goals in the built-in whiteboard. Every week, month, or semester let students revisit those goals to update their progress.
- Student A holds the iPad to record Student B demonstrating a skill.
- Create items inside Google Drive and drop them into Seesaw to show the files off to parents.
>> ESL <<
- Take pictures of your students working, tag the student in the photo (make sure it's not more than one student -- for privacy purposes), and post to their Seesaw journals.
- Let students take a photo of something they learned or accomplished today. Add their voice to the photo to explain their choice.
- Exit ticket: students can write or film themselves speaking about one thing they learned and a question they still have about the day's lesson.
- Have students sketch their goals in the built-in whiteboard. Every week, month, or semester let students revisit those goals to update their progress.
- The teacher (or another student) holds the iPad to record a student demonstrating a skill.
- Record yourself reading a book in English. If you use Shadow Puppet to create the recording, you can show a finger tapping on each word as its read. Afterward, upload it to your Seesaw journal. You can either tag students in the work so they can listen to the story, too, or you can generate a QR code for students to scan and listen to the book whenever they want.
- Ask students to draw an English word they struggle with (using the built-in whiteboard), write the word on top, use labels to add the definition and record their voice speaking the correct pronunciation.
- Students can take pictures of classroom/school scenery and then use the labels and/or voice recording to identify the items in the room.
>> Language Science <<
- Take pictures of your students working, tag the student in the photo (make sure it's not more than one student -- for privacy purposes), and post to their Seesaw journals.
- Let students take a photo of something they learned or accomplished today. Add their voice to the photo to explain their choice.
- Exit ticket: students can write or film themselves speaking about one thing they learned and a question they still have about the day's lesson.
- Have students sketch their goals in the built-in whiteboard. Every week, month, or semester let students revisit those goals to update their progress.
- Use Pic Collage to let students show you the mouth formations for words. Save those images to the camera roll. Upload to Seesaw, using the voice recorder to explain the pictures.
>> Library <<
- Take pictures of your students working, tag the students in the photo, and post to their Seesaw journals.
- Let students take a photo of something they learned or accomplished today. Add their voice to the photo to explain their choice.
- Exit ticket: students can write or film themselves speaking about one thing they learned and a question they still have about the day's lesson.
- Have students sketch their goals in the built-in whiteboard. Every week, month, or semester let students revisit those goals to update their progress.
- When students finish a book, they can ask a partner to help them record a <5 min video book trailer to entice other students to read the book. Post it in Seesaw. Then generate the QR code to that book trailer, print, and attach it to the inside cover of books in your library or a bulletin board up front.
>> Music <<
- Take pictures of your students working, tag the students in the photo, and post to their Seesaw journals.
- Let students take a photo of something they learned or accomplished today. Add their voice to the photo to explain their choice.
- Exit ticket: students can write or film themselves speaking about one thing they learned and a question they still have about the day's lesson.
- Have students sketch their goals in the built-in whiteboard. Every week, month, or semester let students revisit those goals to update their progress.
- Student A holds the iPad to record Student B demonstrating a skill.
- Have students create (and then play) their own song by providing a blank sheet of music paper. (Check out slide 328 of this presentation).
- Have students create rhythms on the built-in whiteboard, and then record themselves speaking the rhythm with the microphone.
- Send an image of pitches or a rhythm to students, have them label it, record their voice to explain, and turn it in.
>> PE <<
- Take pictures of your students working, tag the students in the photo, and post to their Seesaw journals.
- Let students take a photo of something they learned or accomplished today. Add their voice to the photo to explain their choice.
- Exit ticket: students can write or film themselves speaking about one thing they learned and a question they still have about the day's lesson.
- Have students sketch their goals in the built-in whiteboard. Every week, month, or semester let students revisit those goals to update their progress.
- Student A holds the iPad to record Student B demonstrating a skill.
- Let students showcase exercises or stretches in a video with them explaining how to perform the move and why it's a good idea.
- During station work, record a short video of yourself either participating in the station as an example or telling directions. Post the videos in your Seesaw class and print the QR code to each post. Put the QR codes at each station so group members can scan the code and get an instruction refresher.
- Post clues to winners of Jump Rope for Heart or Box Tops for Education and to stir up engagement -- let students and parents try to guess who the winners are before announcing at school the next week.
>> Speech <<
- Take pictures of your students working, tag the student in the photo (make sure it's not more than one student -- for privacy purposes), and post to their Seesaw journals.
- Let students take a photo of something they learned or accomplished today. Add their voice to the photo to explain their choice.
- Exit ticket: students can write or film themselves speaking about one thing they learned and a question they still have about the day's lesson.
- Have students sketch their goals in the built-in whiteboard. Every week, month, or semester let students revisit those goals to update their progress.
- The teacher (or another student) holds the iPad to record a student demonstrating a skill.
- Record the teacher speaking a word, pausing to allow the student to repeat it, and repeating. Push the video to a student's journal. Now the student can practice saying that word or set of sounds repetitively.