K-6 Tech Integration:


Software:

i-photo book
• Use pictures from a comera or the internet and/or words to create a book

Some ideas are:
• Students write a story using the same pictures from a class event
• ABC book
• Word family book
• Autobiographies—students scan pictures of themselves
• Poem with photos
• Recipe Book
• Relate math to real life situations using pictures from the community/internet
• Class Yearbook

Garage Band
• Students create background music for projects—no need to be concerned with copyright laws

i-movie examples
• Tell a story
• Create their own examples related to a skill (ex. Author’s Purpose— examples to persuade, inform, and/or entertain using voice, pictures, text, etc)
• Claymation—movement of objects to tell a story
• Demonstrate Science Projects/Experiments
• Class Yearbook—document/reflect on the year
• Present information on a topic

i-tunes
• Store music, voice, or sounds to use in projects

i-dvd
• Show a finished i-movie and/or picture slide show

Podcasts
• Using garage band and i-tunes, students demonstrate how to do a math problem, reading skill, etc
• View sample podcasts on the i-tunes store

Kidspiration
• Use a template to organize thoughts before writing or to complete an activity
(Examples: Venn Diagram, Categorize/Classify Chart, etc.)

Kidpix
• Human body template for health/science
• Write a story, poem, advertisement, nonfiction information, etc. with words, pictures, backgrounds, animations, etc.

i-cal
• Record the phases of the moon
• Record exercise for a month
• Schedules/Vacation Days
• Teach the calendar

Appleworks
• Spreadsheets-- Line/bar/double bar graphs
• Powerpoints—present information on a topic/skill or create a quiz to prepare for a test
• Brochures

Calculator
• Check answers to problems
• Use paper tape to see entire problem
• It will say what students click
• It will perform conversions

Dictionary
• It will provide the definition of any word within a definition by clicking on it

Photo Booth
• Take a variety of pictures for projects

Stickies
• Easily take notes

Promethean Board