Author Archives: Alex Fegely

World War You – App Lesson

Description: This app lesson will develop history students’ understanding of why the U.S. became of world power, the country’s dealings in world affairs, and problems that were happening on U.S. soil between the first and second world wars. Instructional Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the cause and effect factors leading the U.S. into World War II and events of ...

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Solve It! – App Lesson

Description: This app lesson will develop middle school students’ algebra understanding. Instructional Objective: Students will demonstrate their algebra understanding by creating their own word problems and algebra posters. Step 1: Students will watch instructional videos on the necessary algebra concepts in the Khan Academy app. Step 2: Students will practice the algebra concepts of multiplication and division in the My Math Flash Cards ...

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Doodle Reading – App Lesson

Description: This app lesson will develop ESL students’ reading proficiency. Instructional Objective: Students will be able to read a short article, identify the words they do not understand, and correctly use them in their own sentences. Step 1: Students will be given a search term to find a specific news article using the app Newsela. The app will give them an article ...

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Planets, Constellations, and You! – App Lesson

Description: This app lesson will develop elementary students’ knowledge and understanding of planets, constellations, and the Sun’s orbit. Instructional Objective: Students will be able to describe a planet in the solar system and its relation to the sun. Students will be able to diagram a constellation and explain its position in the night sky over the course of a year. Step ...

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C.He.M.I.S.T.R.Y. – App Lesson

Description: This app lesson will develop science students’ chemistry knowledge and periodic table understanding. Instructional Objective: Students will be able to identify ten elements on the periodic table, understand their reactions, and conduct an experiment. Step 1:  Students will use the app Chemical Elements Quiz to test their understanding of the elements that they have learned about throughout the semester. Students ...

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Yoga-ta Do It! – App Lesson

Description: This app lesson will develop gym students’ knowledge of yoga through research and practice. Instructional Objective: Students will research yoga and create presentations on the muscle groups and benefits of specific yoga poses/exercises. Step 1: Students will research the benefits of yoga with the Google app. Step 2: Students will use the app YouTube to research different real life stories of kids ...

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Periscope

[asa_item id=”972909677″] Periscope is a live streaming app from which users can broadcast content and comment in real time. Periscope integrates into users’ Twitter accounts. To begin, users title and tweet out a link to their Periscope session, and the live streaming of the Periscope session begins immediately. If users do not want to tweet out a link to their ...

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Glogster

Freemium! Glogster allows users to create infographics on their computer. After logging in, users choose their glog’s theme and themes include: Personal, Social Studies, Science, Math, Art & Music, Language Arts, Health & Fitness, and Resource & Tools. Each theme contains multiple glog options within it that can be accessed by tapping the “Show All” button. When ready, users must ...

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Edmodo

Free! Edmodo provides users with an online learning environment that is similar to popular social media websites. To register with Edmodo, users must create either a teacher or student profile.  To work properly, teachers  create a class that students join. For teachers, Edmodo allows them to post assignments and quizzes, poll their students, store course materials in folders, make announcements to an entire ...

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School of Rock – App Lesson

Description: This app lesson will provide hands-on practice for music students to expand their songwriting, mixing, and composing understanding. Instructional Objective: Students will write an original song and compose an accompanying musical piece for it utilizing a combination of the piano, drums, and guitar. Students will record their piece to demonstrate their understanding. Step 1: Students will pair up and write a ...

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