iPads for Grades 3-5
J2 Training - Janet Corder and Joan Gore
Speech-to-Text Dictation
- Open Settings
- Tap General
- Scroll to the bottom and tap Keyboard
- Toggle Enable Dictation to On
- Tap Enable to agree to the privacy notification
- Tap Done
Use Speech-to-Text Dictation:
- A microphone (Dictation Key) will now appear on your keyboard
- Tap the Dictation Key
- Speak what you want to be typed
- Tap the Dictation Key again
Note: The Dictation Key will only appear if you are typing standard text. It will not appear when you are typing a URL (website address).
Favorite Apps
Adobe Slate - easily create visual stories
Adobe Voice - create high-quality voice-narrated slideshows
Chatter Pix Kids - make any picture talk
Colorfly (in-app purchases) - coloring pages
Doodle Pro - drawing app with shapes, colors and more
Dragon Dictation - easy-to-use voice recognition app
Dry Erase Board - turns your iPad into a dry erase board
Easy Timer - easy-to-read timer
Hello Crayons - realistic drawing app that works like crayons
Also check out:
Khan Academy - video tutorials
Popplet Lite - capture and organize your ideas
Seesaw - student-driven digital portfolio
ShadowPuppet EDU - Create easy videos
SnapType - (free & $3.99) take a picture of an worksheet, quiz or test and fill in the blanks on the iPad
Sock Puppets - create puppet shows by recording your voice
Spelling City - fun way to learn spelling and vocabulary words
to understand simple behaviors in daily lifeVenn Diagram (by International Reading Association) - compare and contrast information and organize it in a visually appealing way
EPIC! (eBook library for kids 12 and under- if you register as an educator, you have access to all of the books for FREE, they've added books in Spanish!)
Ninja Chicken - Tiny Chicken learns Prime Numbers - Learn prime numbers in this super cool Ninja game.
Word Clouds (free) - Remember Wordle? Now you can create and share word clouds with on your iPad with this app.
Lists of Apps:
15 Free Must Have iPad Apps for Elementary Students
Best 1-to-1 iPad Apps for Elementary School
40 Of The Best Learning Apps For Elementary Students
Shadow PuppetEDU
To create an ABC Book:
- Each student is assigned a letter of the alphabet to illustrate. They must write the letter and draw a picture of something that begins with that letter.
- After students have completed their illustration, the teacher takes a picture of each drawing.
- The teacher then has each student record the name of their letter and what begins with that letter. Example: "A is for alligator".
- You will want to create a beginning an ending slide for your book, such as a class picture or a sign that says Mrs. Smith's Class Alphabet Book.
- When the book has been recorded, you have several sharing options to choose from within the ShadowPuppetEDU app.
Click on the "ideas" icon within the Shadow PuppetEDU app for integration ideas. Here are a few of our favorites:
- Sequencing - Tell about a process or event by using transition words (e.g., schedule for the day, timeline of historical events, etc).
- Summarizing - Take a picture of the book cover. Students record a summary of the book.
- Reading fluency - Students record themselves reading the text.
- Creative storytelling - Students work together to develop a story, take photos, and record a narrative.
- Self-published authors - Students write, illustrate, and record original stories, poems, or ABC books.
- Readers theater - Student draw pictures to match their assigned part of the story. Order the pictures and have students record their lines.
- About Me presentations - Makes for a fun beginning of the year activity.
- Show and tell - Students share interesting things related to the curriculum being studied.
- How-to tutorials - Create step by step directions for how to achieve a desired outcome (e.g., how to make cookies).
- Community & culture - Create slideshows of community workers or leaders, holidays around the world, or cultures and customs.
- Math word problems - Students create word problems such as, "In this photo there are 3 red blocks and 2 green blocks. The total number of blocks is 5 because 3 plus 2 equals 5."
All About Me
1. Take a picture of yourself using the front-facing camera.
2. Open Popplet Lite app.
3. Insert your picture into Popplet.
4. Create 5 Popples (bubbles) extending from your picture. Each Popple must contain an adjective that describes you.
Animal Report
2. Upload your animal picture into ChatterPix Kids.
3. Use the ChatterPix Kids App to tell about your animal.
4. Save your creation to the Camera Roll.
Label the Insect
- Open the Skitch App.
- Take a picture of your insect (on white paper)
- Select Use.
- Use the Arrow Tool to point to the different parts of the insect that you will label.
- Select the letter a (labeling tool) to create a text box.
- Label the parts of the insect. The slider tool can be used to change the text format. The text box can be moved and enlarged.
- Create additional text boxes to add information that has been researched about the insect.
- Save your project.
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