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This section of the blog is designed to give you fast access to some suggestions of the many uses for iPads in the classroom. Some links will take you directly to examples of children's work using an App. Others will link to suggested uses, or lesson examples.
Apps have been split into two categories 'Recommended Apps' and 'Computer Games'
Recommended Apps & Suggested uses:
Puppet Pals:
A fabulous app for creating short, puppet show style, animations. An excellent speaking and listening tool. A must for all iPad enthusiasts.
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/puppet-pals-an-ipad-essential.html
PicCollage:
Moving Beyond Posters: http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/piccollage-moving-beyond-posters.html
Photo editing: http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/pic-collage-bring-the-world-to-you.html
Posters: http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/today-we-visited-a-theme-park.html
Collecting Children's Work using Airdrop
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/airdrop-quickly-collecting-class-work.html
iMovie:
Creating persuasive television adverts:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/imovie-television-adverts-for-a-theme-park.html
An example of iMovie - A Christmas music video:
http://vimeo.com/81261793
The story behind the video:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/feed-the-world-our-charity-single-raises-nearly-50.html
Tiny Tap: Turning Moments into Games:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/tiny-tap-game-creator-turning-moments-into-games.html
Book Creator: (includes Virtual support)
A fantastic App that allows the creation of digital books:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/book-creator-creating-digital-books-ibooks.html
Padlet: A fantastic web based resource accessed via iPads - Collaborative working
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/padlet-combing-thoughts-collaborative-thinking.html
Padlet examples:
http://padlet.com/wall/layeinkrpm - Direct and Reported Speech
http://padlet.com/wall/f6x8i51hqw - Numeracy lesson starter
http://padlet.com/wall/sb7swyp2d - Literacy: Talk Homework (Years 5 & 6)
ShowMe: Providing Virtual Support:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/showme-providing-virtual-support.html
Class Dojo:
A colourful and attractive way of awarding praise and keeping track of the positives happening in class. Follows a monster theme.
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/class-dojo-portable-praise-record-sheet-free.html
Puffin Academy: Enabling Educational Websites That Use Flash:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/puffin-academy-enable-flash-on-ipads.html
Spellosaur:
A great way to tackle those tricky spellings for FREE! Suitable for children of all ages:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/spellosaur-a-great-way-to-practice-spellings.html
Squeebles Addition & Subtraction:
A quick look at a fun and engaging way to practice addition and subtraction skills (KS1 & KS2):
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/squeebles-addition-subtraction.html
Montessori Maths Challenge (Mental and written maths skills)
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/montessori-maths-challenge.html
Skitch:
A simple, yet effective app for annotating photographs and maps:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/skitch-annotation-app.html
Safari: Suggested use
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/safari-accessing-the-world.html
Popplet:
Representing knowledge in Science:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/year-5-year-6-science.html
Decide Now and iSpin HD:
Quirky Apps desinged for randomly selecting:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/decide-now-ispin-hd-selection-apps-choosing-whos-turn.html
Puppet Pals:
A fabulous app for creating short, puppet show style, animations. An excellent speaking and listening tool. A must for all iPad enthusiasts.
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/puppet-pals-an-ipad-essential.html
PicCollage:
Moving Beyond Posters: http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/piccollage-moving-beyond-posters.html
Photo editing: http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/pic-collage-bring-the-world-to-you.html
Posters: http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/today-we-visited-a-theme-park.html
Collecting Children's Work using Airdrop
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/airdrop-quickly-collecting-class-work.html
iMovie:
Creating persuasive television adverts:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/imovie-television-adverts-for-a-theme-park.html
An example of iMovie - A Christmas music video:
http://vimeo.com/81261793
The story behind the video:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/feed-the-world-our-charity-single-raises-nearly-50.html
Tiny Tap: Turning Moments into Games:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/tiny-tap-game-creator-turning-moments-into-games.html
Book Creator: (includes Virtual support)
A fantastic App that allows the creation of digital books:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/book-creator-creating-digital-books-ibooks.html
Padlet: A fantastic web based resource accessed via iPads - Collaborative working
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/padlet-combing-thoughts-collaborative-thinking.html
Padlet examples:
http://padlet.com/wall/layeinkrpm - Direct and Reported Speech
http://padlet.com/wall/f6x8i51hqw - Numeracy lesson starter
http://padlet.com/wall/sb7swyp2d - Literacy: Talk Homework (Years 5 & 6)
ShowMe: Providing Virtual Support:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/showme-providing-virtual-support.html
Class Dojo:
A colourful and attractive way of awarding praise and keeping track of the positives happening in class. Follows a monster theme.
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/class-dojo-portable-praise-record-sheet-free.html
Puffin Academy: Enabling Educational Websites That Use Flash:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/puffin-academy-enable-flash-on-ipads.html
Spellosaur:
A great way to tackle those tricky spellings for FREE! Suitable for children of all ages:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/spellosaur-a-great-way-to-practice-spellings.html
Squeebles Addition & Subtraction:
A quick look at a fun and engaging way to practice addition and subtraction skills (KS1 & KS2):
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/squeebles-addition-subtraction.html
Montessori Maths Challenge (Mental and written maths skills)
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/montessori-maths-challenge.html
Skitch:
A simple, yet effective app for annotating photographs and maps:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/skitch-annotation-app.html
Safari: Suggested use
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/safari-accessing-the-world.html
Popplet:
Representing knowledge in Science:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/year-5-year-6-science.html
Decide Now and iSpin HD:
Quirky Apps desinged for randomly selecting:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/decide-now-ispin-hd-selection-apps-choosing-whos-turn.html
iPads and the New Curriculum - Coding:
Coding (Programming) features heavily in the 2014 Curriculum. In this section, you will find suggestions for how to combat some of the new coding skills, that are required in Primary schools, through the use of iPad apps.
Coding Apps suitable for KS1 and Lower KS2:
This post gives an over view of some of the apps suitable for coding with younger children: http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/coding-apps-for-ks1-lower-ks2.html
Coding (Programming) features heavily in the 2014 Curriculum. In this section, you will find suggestions for how to combat some of the new coding skills, that are required in Primary schools, through the use of iPad apps.
Coding Apps suitable for KS1 and Lower KS2:
This post gives an over view of some of the apps suitable for coding with younger children: http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/coding-apps-for-ks1-lower-ks2.html
Using iPad Computer Games in the
classroom:
This section will provide links to examples of units of work / lessons where iPad computer games have been used to help stimulate and motivate learning.
Angry Birds:
Using Angry Birds in Numeracy.
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/ipads-in-education-angry-birds-using-a-computer-game-in-numeracy.html
Temple Run:
Using Temple Run to stimulate writing. (Literacy and Geography)
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/ipads-in-education-temple-run.html
Theme Park:
A virtual theme park visit as motivation for writing.
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/ipads-in-education-using-a-computer-game-as-a-writing-stimulus.html
The impact: http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/nathan-super-writing.html
Minecraft:
Exploring the potential of Minecraft as a teaching stimulus. Motivating children to write outside of their time in school:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/minecraft-yes-or-no.html
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/minecraft-yes-or-no-score-update.html
Minecraft lessons: Literacy and Numeracy:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/03/minecraft-literacy-and-numeracy.html
Minecraft in the New Curriculum - History - Norman Castles:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/blog/minecraft-history-and-the-new-curriculum
FIFA Ultimate Team:
An example of using Fifa Ultimate Team as a platform to revisit and assess knowledge / understanding of fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/fifa-ultimate-team-applying-knowledge-of-fractions-decimals-percentages.html
Example Lesson Planning for the Units mentioned above can be found here:http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/02/ipads-in-education-using-games-as-a-stimulus-example-planning-short-units.html
iPad PowerPoints (CPD archive):
A powerpoint looking at some of the uses iPad computer games have in the classroom and their impact: (Speed Learning Event from 20.10.13)
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/ipads-in-education-using-ipad-computer-games-as-a-stimulus.html
classroom:
This section will provide links to examples of units of work / lessons where iPad computer games have been used to help stimulate and motivate learning.
Angry Birds:
Using Angry Birds in Numeracy.
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/ipads-in-education-angry-birds-using-a-computer-game-in-numeracy.html
Temple Run:
Using Temple Run to stimulate writing. (Literacy and Geography)
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/ipads-in-education-temple-run.html
Theme Park:
A virtual theme park visit as motivation for writing.
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/ipads-in-education-using-a-computer-game-as-a-writing-stimulus.html
The impact: http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/nathan-super-writing.html
Minecraft:
Exploring the potential of Minecraft as a teaching stimulus. Motivating children to write outside of their time in school:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/minecraft-yes-or-no.html
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/minecraft-yes-or-no-score-update.html
Minecraft lessons: Literacy and Numeracy:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/03/minecraft-literacy-and-numeracy.html
Minecraft in the New Curriculum - History - Norman Castles:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/blog/minecraft-history-and-the-new-curriculum
FIFA Ultimate Team:
An example of using Fifa Ultimate Team as a platform to revisit and assess knowledge / understanding of fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio:
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/fifa-ultimate-team-applying-knowledge-of-fractions-decimals-percentages.html
Example Lesson Planning for the Units mentioned above can be found here:http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2014/02/ipads-in-education-using-games-as-a-stimulus-example-planning-short-units.html
iPad PowerPoints (CPD archive):
A powerpoint looking at some of the uses iPad computer games have in the classroom and their impact: (Speed Learning Event from 20.10.13)
http://5tanfieldlea.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/ipads-in-education-using-ipad-computer-games-as-a-stimulus.html