Today we introduced the app Educreations to create some riddles in science. We are studying balls and ramps in science. Below is the format that we used to use the app.
Background about science
We just started balls and ramps. The first task is using our senses to describe a variety of balls. I created riddles as examples for the students. Ex--I am white, I am small, I bounce, I have dimples. What am I? Students were to create the same type of riddles.
Steps for creating riddles.......
1) Put students into groups of 4
2) Gave each group a brown paper bag with a ball in it, a clipboard and a paper to write riddle
3) Each student in group writes one clue about the ball
4) iPads are handed out to groups (With this being the first day, the Educreations app was opened by the teacher and a question mark was inserted via Dropbox.)
5) One student was in charge of pressing record (we called this person the start/stop person)
6) Start/Stop person pressed record, each student read his/her clue, start/stop person pressed stop.
7) Riddles were saved as public.
Sample Riddle Below
Background about science
We just started balls and ramps. The first task is using our senses to describe a variety of balls. I created riddles as examples for the students. Ex--I am white, I am small, I bounce, I have dimples. What am I? Students were to create the same type of riddles.
Steps for creating riddles.......
1) Put students into groups of 4
2) Gave each group a brown paper bag with a ball in it, a clipboard and a paper to write riddle
3) Each student in group writes one clue about the ball
4) iPads are handed out to groups (With this being the first day, the Educreations app was opened by the teacher and a question mark was inserted via Dropbox.)
5) One student was in charge of pressing record (we called this person the start/stop person)
6) Start/Stop person pressed record, each student read his/her clue, start/stop person pressed stop.
7) Riddles were saved as public.
Sample Riddle Below
8) Riddles were placed onto Kidblog (Teacher embedded the riddles on Kidblog since it was the first time---eventually kids will do this independently).
9) Students logged into Kidblog, listened to each riddle and commented with their guess of which ball.
See a sample http://kidblog.org/1F2012-2013/mrfsfirstgrade/mystery-ball-e/
9) Students logged into Kidblog, listened to each riddle and commented with their guess of which ball.
See a sample http://kidblog.org/1F2012-2013/mrfsfirstgrade/mystery-ball-e/