March+Journal

Easy Chart HD Easy Chart HD allows students to enter data in order to make a graph. The first graph we made was a bar graph. We counted how many letters were in each of the 50 states and graphed that data. Next I had the students decide what they wanted to gather data on and the class decided to graph who their 2nd grade teachers were last year. I let them decide if they wanted to use a pie or bar graph. Our third graphing activity had the students picking a city anywhere in the world. They had to find the high temperatures in their city during the week of Feb. 19-25, 2012 using weather.com. Using that data, they made a line graph.

Easy Chart HD Students had to create a Show Me to demonstrate their knowledge of the graphs. Here is an example of a line graph Show Me. media type="custom" key="12931068"

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Story Spine With Story Spine students can summarize a story or create one of their own. After the students have created a Story Spine, they can email it to me where I can review it.



Here is an example of a Story Spine from one of my students after reading City of Ember.

=iBrainstorm = We are using iBrainstorm as one of our brainstorming apps. After students read a nonfiction book, they can use this app to create a map of the details in the book. Below is an example that a student created after reading a book on Abraham Lincoln.



Story Lines Story Lines is just like the game of "telephone" except you use writing and drawings to illustrate a story line. This app has prompts that the students can start with or they can start with a prompt the teacher or the students create. This works well illustrating a new vocabulary word or with figurative language. media type="youtube" key="oJNvVSKAB8Y" height="315" width="420"

Tools 4 Students

Here are some examples of students using the app Tools for Students as they are working on their individual reading goals during Daily 5 in the classroom.

Coin Toss An app to simulate a coin toss that we used to show probability. Students "flipped" a coin 20 times and recorded the results. Using Easy Chart HD app they showed the results in a pie graph.





Oh no! Fractions





audioBoo

audioBoo is an app for recording and sharing your voice. The first time I used this with my students was to record commercials for various books they were reading. We can put them into our blogs for our book club.



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= = Talking Critter Apps with Glogster =

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