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 ...
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Guess the Capital – App Lesson
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 ...
Read More »Fitness Trackers – App Lesson
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 ...
Read More »Read and Write! – App Lesson
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 ...
Read More »Comparing Colonies – App Lesson
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 ...
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