Christmas Pattern Game

Christmas Pattern Game is an app you can use to solve sequence and pattern puzzles and practice foundational math skills. There are 3 levels:  beginner, intermediate, and advanced.  Santa travels all over the world, so there is exposure to world geography with flags and famous landmarks, too!

Classroom Applications: 

• Recognizing, analyzing and solving pattern and sequence puzzles promotes foundational skills for math, literacy and science. 
• Recognizing patterns and sequences
• Recognizing differences in color
• Recognizing differences in size
• Practice counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's
• Exposure to world geography with country flags and landmarks

AR Flashcards - Bringing the Alphabet and Dinosaurs to Life

AR Flashcards is an augmented reality app.You will need to download and print the flashcards from their website (http://arflashcards.com/). Using the AR Flashcards app on your iPad, tap on Get Started and hold the iPad over the flashcards. You can rotate the iPad or the flashcards to view it from different angles. If you tap the projected image, it will say the letter and animal (or dinosaur name). They suggest that you print the flashcards in color but black and white will also work. The website also has AR Space flashcards but the AR Space App costs.

Classroom Applications:
Vocabulary
Letter Recognition

Bluescreen - It

Bluescreen-It! is a fun app that allows your students to "visit" and become a part of a time period or location by placing them into the scene.  Simply find your background scene, take a picture of students in front of a blue or green screen, and then mash the two together using the Bluescreen-It app. Have students dress and hold props to match the scene to really make the experience meaningful.  Just be sure that students avoid wearing green clothing if using a green screen and avoid blue clothing if using a blue screen.



Classroom Applications:  Science (ie. place students in space), Historical Studies (ie. place student on Ellis Island), Springboard for Writing, Class Posters, Import into FaceTalk or iMovie app to create a video

Kodable

Kodable is a self-guided app that introduces computer programming to elementary students.  It is just one of the featured learning experiences in the 2013 Hour of Code coming up next week during Computer Science Education Week! Be sure to look at the many learning possibilities for K-12 students available!

What's an Hour of Code?

It's a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code" and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, an innovator.

Classroom Applications:

• Learn to solve problems in sequential steps
• Introduce programming concepts and problem solving
• Set up your classroom or computer lab with learning stations which use various tutorials from the Hour of Code Day!