Description: This app lesson will develop middle school students’ understanding of graphing data and regional weather patterns. Instructional Objective: Students will apply math concepts with real-world data, graphing weather information for a particular region. Step 1: Students will pick an area of the world they know nothing about using Google Earth. Step 2: Next, students will investigate this area’s weather patterns –precipitation, ...

Description: This app lesson will develop physical education students’ activity, knowledge, and understanding. Instructional Objective: Students will collect and analyze their health data and monitor their physical activity, sharing their progress with a reflective video. Step 1: Students will use MyFitnessPal to record their caloric intake and steps taken in a day for 14 days straight. Step 2: Students will use the Nike+ ...

Instructional Objective: Students will develop a KWL chart, review the American Revolution, analyze the development of the branches of government, and then play an interactive game. Step 1: Students will create a KWL chart and write down the things that they already know about the American Revolution using the Drawing Desk app. Step 2: Students will open The Revolution: Interactive Guide app and ...

Description: This app lesson will develop elementary school science students’ solar system understanding. Instructional Objective: Students will develop an understanding of the Earth’s solar system. Students will recall the names of all of the planets and then be able to reproduce a model that represents their knowledge learned from the standard in a 3-D Model. Step 1: Students will read Section ...

Description: This app lesson will develop elementary students’ Underground Railroad understanding. Instructional Objective: Students will research the Underground Railroad and create a video demonstrating their understanding. Step 1: Students will research a specific stop on the Underground Railroad and listen to the narrated account of the stop’s significance using the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway Audio Tour app. Step 2: Students will ...

Description: This app lesson will develop middle school students’ American history knowledge and understanding. Instructional Objective: Students will pick an American history event and recreate it in their own words. Students will present their recreation/explanation to the class. Students will then take a quiz on the events explained in the presentation. Step 1: Students will become an expert on a specific event ...

Description: This app lesson will develop social studies students’ knowledge of the United States capitals. Instructional Objective: Students will identify, recall the U.S. capitals, and prepare a presentation that describes one particular capital. Step 1: Students will study the state capitals, making flashcards with the StudyBlue app. Step 2: Students will use the Google app to research two state capitals assigned to them ...

Description: This app lesson will develop students’ dietary understanding and physical fitness. Instructional Objective: Students will be able to track what they eat, create a physical activity schedule, and analyze how to make healthier choices. Step 1: Students will use the Fooducate app to input everything they eat and drink for a week. Step 2: Students will use the 7 Minute Workout app ...

Description: This app lesson will develop elementary students’ reading and writing levels. Instructional Objective: Students will recall the alphabet and spell basic words. Step 1: Students will learn the alphabet in both lower and upper case, tracing letters and practicing their shapes in the My First Alphabet Phonics app. Step 2: Students will learn to write words by selecting everyday objects in categories ...

Description: This app lesson will develop social studies students’ early American history background knowledge. Instructional Objective: Students will research Spanish, French, and English colonies in the Americas, creating both a poster on one of the colonies and a compare/contrast essay analyzing the differences between the three different American colonizers. Step 1: Students will break apart into groups of 3. Students will then ...