iPad Collaboration Ideas by Subject Area

Reading

App / Activities
Create Shortcut for websites for Listen to Reading / Tumblebooks
Unite For Literacy
Storyline Online
Book Flix
Fry Words / Have students write out a list of fry words
--Find synonyms, antonyms, use in a sentence, draw a picture
iPevo / Take a screen shot of a book page
Use pens to show phrasing
Record student reading the text
Evaluate/analyze text
Magnetic Letters / Use the app in guided reading groups to practice phonics skills and sight words
Word Wizard / Practice spelling nonsense words
Claro PDF / Use the CD Rom to upload PDF versions of GHGR books
Voice Recorder / Record books for Listen to Reading
Email the recording to yourself
Upload the recording to your website
I-Nigma / Many websites such as Super Teachers and Teachers Pay Teachers have QR code activities - some are FREE!
Popplet / Record main idea/details
Mind-mapping
Character analysis
Recording story elements
ESL- matching activities to develop vocabulary
Schema activation
Inferring (inference in middle, evidence on outside)
Vocabulary
Sock Puppets / Reader’s Theatre
Analyzing/presenting a character’s point of view
Use for extension activities: retelling, text analysis
30 Hands / Retelling, Summarizing a text

Math

App / Activities
Doodlecast / Have students write their own number stories, draw a picture, number model, and explain how to solve it
iPevo / 2nd grade – Unit 6
Take pictures of each number story graphic organizer
Have students practice using different organizers to solve number stories
Use multiple organizers to show many ways to solve a problem
Explain Everything / Take a picture of a math problem
Solve it while recording a verbal explanation
Popplet / Name collection boxes
Base 10 blocks displays
30 Hands / Create problem-solving screencasts

Science and Social Studies

Chatterpix / Take a picture of continents
Record a fact about each continent
Popplet / Give facts or short biography of a US History figure
Document schema prior to a lesson
Google Earth / Map Studies: Arial perspective vs. Street view
Find pictures of urban, rural, and suburban communities
Locate geographical features
Find your state, town, neighborhood
iPevo / Vocabulary practice: Draw a picture of a vocabulary word
Air Server to have students guess what the word is
Upload the recording to your website
Skitch / Label parts of a plant
Use for diagrams and labels in science
Camera / 1st grade - Collecting images of life

Writing

iPevo / Evaluate mentor text/sentences
Record student writing/share
Popplet / Use for pre-writing
Make graphic organizers for writing
Note-taking for research
30 Hands / “Talking out” stories prior to writing
How-to writing (another way to present the writing)
Conducting and presenting research
Skitch / Grammar activities (i.e. adjectives)

Community Building: Use 30 Hands to complete “Get to know you” activities (i.e.: buddy interviews, etc.)