Description: This app lesson will develop students’ ability to engage music. Instructional Objective: Students will design their own song by using education apps to familiarize themselves with several music notation and creation devices. Step 1: Students will play music using the Musical Instrument – Lamophone app to experience the different sounds notes make and enjoy playing music. Step 2: Students will then experiment ...

Description: This app lesson will develop students’  knowledge of U.S. history and government. Instructional Objective: Students will read primary documents instrumental to the start of U.S. government, research and analyze a founding father, and then create and present a humorous meme to the class to help students remember each founding father. Step 1: Students will read from the Federalist Papers and Constitution ...

Description: This app lesson will develop students’ understanding and knowledge of outer space. Instructional Objective: Students will explore space by completing hands-on experiences, recording research, and creating a multimedia presentation from the viewpoint of an astronaut. Step 1: Students will use Star Chart to explore the sky and pick a star, planet, moon, asteroid, or other celestial body they would like to investigate ...

Description: This app lesson will develop high school history students’ understanding of border types and country shapes using the fragmentation of Europe from 1920-present as examples. Instructional Objective: Students compare and contrast European border types and analyze the reasons for their change over time from 1920 to their current shapes. Step 1: Students will view maps of Europe from World War I, World ...

Description: In this app lesson, students will learn and practice coin counting skills. Instructional Objective: Students will create and solve real world math problems by reviewing basic multiplication and coin counting skills before applying them. Step 1: Students will use the Math Workout app to sharpen their multiplication skills. Step 2: Students will use the Counting Coins app to review the values of ...

Description: In this app lesson, students gain experience with SAT and ACT questions while being creative! Instructional Objective: Students will prepare for college entrance exams (e.g. SAT and ACT tests) by completing a practice test and then explaining how to correctly solve a math and reading comprehension question. Step 1: Students will complete a practice test using the ACT® Test Prep TestBank 36! ...

Description: This app lesson develops young students’ letter-writing skills. Instructional Objective: Students will learn letter-writing skills by first tracing letters using a variety of templates before writing letters independently. Step 1: Students will use the Write – Paint Alphabets app to learn how to correctly write letters using a template.  Step 2: Teachers will upload pictures of words into the ShowMe app, and ...

Description: This app lesson develops English Language Arts and English as a Second Language students’ vocabulary and grammar skills. Instructional Objective: Students will study a literary term by selecting one from a glossary, creating a graphic that defines and exemplifies the term, and then explain how that term is part of a literary work. Step 1: Students will be assigned a literary ...

Description: This app lesson develops students’ ability to discern historical patterns and analyze them for meaning. Instructional Objective: Students will view a documentary about an important event from United States history and create a newspaper page about the event from the perspective of someone who witnessed it. Students will then pick a theme represented in the documentary and write a “change-over-time” analysis, ...

Description: This app lesson develops students’ understanding of perceptual regions. Instructional Objective: Students will illustrate and categorize their perceptions of the Northeast, South, West, and Midwest regions, and they will then contrast their interpretations and the states they included in each perceptual region with their peers before writing an analysis of their reasoning Step 1: Students will use the My World Atlas-Lite ...