iPods in the Classroom  

(Development in Progress...started March 30, 2011)

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”

Math

Learning Math with Music: Students work in groups to create their own rhymes and songs for an entire family of math facts. Individual students record their songs using an attachable microphone..

Science

Digital Science Experiments:This lesson can be applied to any science experiment. The teacher uses an iPod and a voice recorder to provide experiment instructions to small groups of students.

Science Fair Projects:  Second Grade Students share their science projects.

Butterflies:  Grade 1 class records a podcast about what they have learned about butterflies.

Writing

iPod Reporters: Students explore the basics of news reporting and gain an understanding of why news is news and what their responsibilities are as news gatherers. Students then plan a class newspaper.

First Graders tell their stories

Reading

Reading Fluency with iPods and GarageBand: The goal of this lesson is to develop stronger reading fluency and comprehension, and increase language acquisition skills: Using an iPod and a voice recorder.

Listening to Letter Sounds: Sounds and their corresponding symbols are taught in a series of lessons using various strategies and aided by Lively Letter cards.

Book reports and recorded students talking about their books. They have been working on story elements and retelling with a beginning, middle and end.

Flashcards of high frequency words

Kindergarten students reading sample

Non-fiction literature. Fourth graders did a project that involved students reading. In this case, it was a biography with the written outcome in the form of a friendly letter to their teacher about the person/book and including all the components of the friendly letter.

Generating flashcards to study for vocabulary quizzes   Sixth Grade students.  This technique can also be used to generate an innovative book report for students to demonstrate understanding of assigned novel. 

Social Studies

Radio Show: After reading and listening to several radio dramas, student groups write and record a radio drama based on an event or period in history.

Oral Histories: After a discussion on what it means to be an American, students use an iPod and a voice recorder to interview a family member. They then combine the interview with old photos of that relative in iMovie, and create a short video history about that person.

Personal Planning

6 Pillars of Character:  Grade 2 students created a vodcast (video podcast)

French/Other Languages

Teach someone how to speak ??? Students teach their parents how to speak Spanish!