Description: This app lesson develops English Language Arts students’ comprehension, research, and testing skills. Instructional Objective: Students will practice their reading comprehension skills by first answering questions about different text passages and then choosing articles to create their own questions for their classmates to engage. Step 1: Students will use the QuotEd Reading Comprehension app to engage different texts and answer text-dependent ...

Description: This app lesson develops students’ understanding of the scientific method. Instructional Objective: Students will complete a scientific experiment by first viewing videos of experiment before recording themselves conducting a scientific experiment on their own. Step 1: Students will view scientific experiments using the Video Science app in order to see a model of the type of video they will create. Step ...

Description: This app lesson develops students’ decimal division and measuring skills. Instructional Objective: Students will watch an instructional video on dividing decimals and will measure (to the nearest tenth of an inch/centimeter) two objects they find in the classroom. Students will then create flashcards representing the division of each measurement and demonstrate their understanding of dividing decimals by completing their division ...

Description: This app lesson develops students’ creative writing, parts of speech, grammar, and vocabulary ability. Instructional Objective: Students will review parts of speech and engage in a creative writing activity by completing practice Mad libs before researching an article, converting it to a mad lib, and then posting it to a class website. Step 1: Students will complete 1-3 exercises using the Mad ...

Description: This app lesson develops students’ historical thinking and analysis skills. Instructional Objective: Students will analyze a current event/policy being dealt with in U.S. government and report on this event/policy, connect it to a previous in U.S. history, demonstrate their understanding by creating an interactive video. Step 1: Students will use the Briefing Room section of The White House app to research ...

Description: This app lesson develops students’ knowledge of elements in addition to atomic structures and levels. Instructional Objective: Students will choose a periodic element and study it BY constructing it at the atomic level, researching uses for the element and listing three facts about it, and then creating a detailed model of it. Step 1: Students will use the NOVA Elements app to select and ...

Description: This app lesson develops English Language Arts and Early Literacy students’ ability to identify story structure and analyze storytelling elements. Instructional Objective: Students will select and analyze a short story by completing a storyboard graphic organizer and by justifying if they did or did not enjoy the story. Step 1: Students will use the 301+ Short Stories app to select a story. ...

Description: This app lesson develops students’ workout and nutrition knowledge. Instructional Objective: Students will research nutrition and workout plans and exhibit their understanding by creating and demonstrating on video their student-generated nutrition and fitness plans. Step 1: Students will use EBSCOhost to research nutrition and exercise science articles with a partner to create a foundation on which to create their workout plan. Step ...

Description: This app lesson teaches students’ muscular and cardiovascular health. Instructional Objective: Students will complete a weekly circuit of exercise and nutrition apps and demonstrate their understanding of healthy eating and training by logging their progress in a workout/nutrition tracker. Step 1: Students will input their BMI information into the BMI Calculator to track their body mass index progress week to week. ...

Description: This app lesson develops students’ art analysis skills, creativity, and art genre knowledge. Instructional Objective: Students will research a work of art/style/genre and demonstrate their understanding of the nuances of that art by creating their own piece inspired from their research. Students will then write an analysis of how they implemented the researched style into their creative piece and post both ...