Adobe Reader App
Annotating in the Middle School Classroom
How can you use the Adobe Reader app in your classroom?
Think about the many PDF documents you can either find online or create and share with your students. Imagine the possibilities across different curriculum areas.
- Math (Give students a math problem worked incorrectly and let them find where it went wrong.)
- ELA (Students can annotate fiction, nonfiction, poetry, identify story components, fact vs. opinion, etc.)
- Science (Give students an article showing the scientific method applied incorrectly and let them make corrections.)
- Social Studies (Imagine what your students could do with primary source documents!)
- Art (Give your students a PDF of a famous piece of artwork and have them identify certain components in their annotations, such as the artist, time period, medium, etc.)
- Health (Give students "a day in the life" article of a typical student, with good and bad choices and have your students annotate both, including why they think they would classify them as good or bad choice.)
- Etc.
Once your students annotate the document, then what? How can they share it with you? In our school district, we encourage teachers to use Edmodo for student/teacher workflow, assignments, etc. Almost all apps have a share icon now. Students are encouraged to share their annotated document by adding it to their backpack in Edmodo, similar to a digital portfolio. Once they add the annotated document to their backpack, they can attach it to the assignment and turn it in to you within the Edmodo app! Very simple workflow!
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:-) Danielle
Danielle S. West
Horry County Schools
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