Tip into Interactive Media with Tiny Tap
Michelle Brunkhurst
Roosevelt Elementary School
Santa Barbara Unified School District
Description:Using technology, students can create and share their own online portfolios of learning. They will design their own portfolios to demonstrate and share science vocabulary.
Project outcomes:Students will design an electronic gallery of their learning using the iPad to represent their learning of how earth materials can be compared and classified based on their observable properties and how we use these materials.
Target student grade level:2nd grade
Time required:2 hours
CA Content or Common Core State Standards addressed with this project:
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Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.w.2.6 With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.w.2.7 Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g. read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).
Science:
2-PS1-1 Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
Assessments:To assess students, I will review the portfolios they created with TinyTap. I will look at each portfolio and listen to each audio file that the students recorded to go with the images. By listening to what students recorded about each image in their portfolio, I can have an understanding of their content knowledge.
Materials: 5 ipads
Apps: TinyTap & PicCollage
Sentence frames for each group
Pencils, Paper
Lessons:I will use the FOSS Science kit for Grade 2 that focuses on the investigation of pebbles, sand, and silt. This lesson will incorporate language arts into the context of a science investigation.
Students have previously investigated several types of rocks and other earth materials. In class we have already observed, sorted, and described rocks and earth materials. Prior to this lesson, students will have had the opportunity to photograph earth materials in use around the school, using an iPad. This will give every student the opportunity to find an earth material in use.
Students will have used the scientific process to research earth materials, and science notebooks to record their learning. Students will reference their science notebooks to create a final writing piece showing their knowledge of earth materials.
Students will play a computer game from the FOSS website to show their knowledge of where we can earth materials in use outdoors.
I will remind students of my expectations when they use the iPad and the apps PicCollage and TinyTap. In dyads, they will re-teach each other the class expectations when using technology.
In groups, students will use the iPad app PicCollage to create a slide showing photographs of earth materials in use around our school. They will record the properties of the rocks.
TinyTap is a kid friendly, free iPad app designed to have users create interactive books and games. In 2014, TinyTap won $1 million from the Verizon Powerful Answers Award, proving itself as an education tool with potential. Students can upload their own images from their own camera roll or the web and add narration, music, text, and more. Both teacher and students can create activities, quizzes, and portfolios that are highly visual and auditory.
Projects can be set to public or private access.You can browse public projects to find inspiration or other examples from teachers. My favorite use of this app is to have students create a game to show their knowledge at the end of a unit.
I had students create slides showing different groupingsof rocks we had studied. Throughout the unit, students practiced sorting rocks based on multiple properties such as size, color, texture, or luster.
Using the provided sentence stem, students will tell me what earth material they saw being used around the school and it is a good choice of material for use.
This is ______being use for ______.
It is a good earth material to use for this because ______.
It has the property of ______.
As a whole group students will share their collages and sentences. Students will upload their collages into the iPad app TinyTap to create an electronic gallery of their learning for this unit. They will use their writing as a script to record a voiceover to go along with their slide.
Students will share their final projects.
When I use this app students are eager to participate. They wouldn’t dare risk missing their chance to use the iPad. They take turns and help each other problem solve. Students are proud to show their finished products. They can create slides by themselves or in groups. They get a kick out of hearing their peers narrate the slides.
Student work samples: