Allison Staak, Andrew Fenstermaker, Jill Johnson and Brian Scott are gamifying their 4th and 5th grade classrooms this school year. In Legacy Quest, villages are competing to rule the Kingdom of Panthepard. Badges are awarded to individuals while quests provide opportunities for villages to gain XP. Only one village will be chosen to rule Panthepard.

Lisa Hall and Jackie Biger capitalized on a 6th grade class's love of board games by creating Journey Through Time - as students move through sections of the History Alive textbook, students can earn "wedges" for completing different tasks based on rubrics created as a class.

Melissa Nies uses Fantasy Geopolitics to make learning about countries and current issues competitive and fun for her 9th and 10th grade students. Much like fantasy sports, students draft and trade for their ultimate team of countries to earn points based on current events and then challenge each other to knowledge-offs to steal to try to generate the most points.

Google Slides is a simple but effective way to have students work together to share their learning. Create one Google Slideshow and share with students so they "can edit" and assign each student one slide to complete. The slides could become the pages of a class authored eBook, flashcards for vocabulary review, or a collection of examples of mathematical patterns in nature.

Does your school have a green screen? Some green fabric? A blank wall that could be painted green? Then you should get the $2.99 app called Do Ink Green Screen! Students could transport themselves into the setting of a novel, create "on the scene" news reports, or create Instagram "posts" from the point of view of a character or historical figure!

Recap App allows teachers to ask a question and encourages students to reflect and respond by recording short video clips. Clips are then arranged into in a mini video to share with others!