1. What Can 2nd Graders Do On An Ipad?
Lori Kruse
2nd Grade Teacher
Discovery Elementary

2. Apps Used: Book Creator Explain Everything iMovie Keynote Sway
Book-style format with turning pages
App to create
instructional
videos
Create and edit
movies
PowerPoint for
the iPad
PowerPoint like
App in Outlook

3. Ideas Sheet

4. Book Creator - Famous Americans
Small Group Project – October
Objective:
Research, collaborate, and share learning
Learn to use Book Creator app
Research: collaborated with librarian to use books and PebbleGo
Materials:
Planning Sheet – planned text
Storyboard - planned pictures
Illustrations - drew pictures and photographed with iPad camera
Text - wrote, typed and narrated text
Presentation:
Students presented videos to parents at American Education Week

5. Famous Americans – Martin Luther King Jr

6. Successes and Challenges
Book Creator
– Creates a nice presentation, easy to create, easy to record narration
- Difficulty sharing – only with GoogleDrive, no collaboration
How could you use this app in your classroom?

7. Explain Everything - Daffodil Project
Small group collaborative project - November
Objective:
Challenge high reading group to create a presentation about how to plant daffodils for mini-PBL project
Learn to use Explain Everything app
Research: Worked together to find and evaluate information and pictures Materials:
Planning sheet – planned narration
Storyboard – planned slides
Illustrations – found pictures on internet (with supervision!)
Text - wrote, typed and narrated text on iPad
Presentation: Students taught class about daffodils and how to plant them.

8. Daffodil Project

9. Explain Everything - Book Trailers
Partners - December
Objective:
Demonstrate comprehension - retell and give a book recommendation
Learn to use Explain Everything app
Research: Partners read books and wrote summaries
Materials:
Planning sheet – summary for narration
Storyboard – to plan illustrations and written text
Illustrations - created illustrations or took photos of pages in books with iPad camera
Text – created brief text to accompany narrated summary
Presentation: Videos shared with families on webpage

10. If You Give A Pig A Pancake
Book Trailer –
If You Give A Pig A Pancake

11. Successes and Challenges
Explain Everything – easy to use, can record while creating page or add voice over, can draw pictures on tablet or add photos
- Picture tools are simplistic, created and viewed on iPad or Mac, no collaboration
How could you use this app in your classroom?

12. IMovie – 2nd Grader Authors
Partners - December
Objective:
Read with fluency
Learn to use iPad camera to record each other
Materials:
Stories written during Writing Workshop and recorded during end of the unit celebration
Partners recorded each other reading stories
Presentation: Videos shared with families on webpage

13. Authors As Mentors
The Monster Story

14. iMovie – Visual Poetry Project
Individual - February
Objective:
Demonstrate comprehension of a poem through visualization
Edit iMovie
Materials:
Students illustrated a poem and practiced reading fluently
Storyboard – planned illustrations
Partners recorded each other reading poems with expression
Students edited movie and imbedded video into iMovie over top of illustrations
Presentation: Videos shared with families on webpage

15. Rohan’s Visual Poetry Reading

16. Successes and Challenges
iMovie – exciting to use, can add photos, lots of editing possibilities
Takes time to develop filming and editing skills
Challenges recording - have to be close to get reasonable sound quality
How could you use this app in your classroom?

17. Keynote – Body System Presentations
Small groups - April
Objective:
Research and teach class about a body system
Use Keynote to create a presentation
Research:
Students used books and on-line library resources – GoPebble, MacInVia and InfoBits
Access to materials shared through Google Classroom
Materials:
Planning sheet with storyboard – text and illustrations
Illustrations – found pictures & animated clipart on internet
Videos – Students video-taped examples of healthy exercise
Presentation:
Students taught classmates and shared presentations with parents at PBL Exhibition Day

18. Muscular System Video

19. Successes and Challenges
Keynote – very easy to find and insert pictures, templates available to create presentations
- Created and viewed on iPad or Mac, no collaboration
How could you use this app in your classroom?

20. SWAY – Life Cycle Illustrations and comparison
Small groups - May
Objective:
Demonstrate understanding of life cycle of butterfly & deer
Use SWAY (or Keynote)to create a presentation
Materials:
Planning sheet with storyboard – text and illustrations
Illustrations – found pictures & videos on internet
Presentation:
Students presented projects to classmates

21. Life Cycle of Deer & Butterfly

22. Successes and Challenges
Sway – entirely on line, created and viewed in browser, easy to use, can work on at home, easy collaboration - more than one student can work on it at a time
- Compared to PowerPoint features are somewhat limited,
Can’t download – have to share with link
How could you use this app in your classroom?

23. Things we found useful:
Explicit directions!
Story boards for planning
Texts written out ahead of time

24. Things we found useful:
Taking pictures of student drawings led to higher quality images
Practicing voice recordings & recording close up produced better sound quality
Sharing with parents on webpage and Discovery Creates

25. Exit Ticket Please tell me something you learned that you
could use in your classroom.
Please share something you liked about the presentation.
Please share something you would have
liked to see.

26. Questions!
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