Posted in iPad, Makerspace, Projects, Roanoke County Schools, Science

What’s for Dinner Stop Motion

Mrs. Corbett’s class created stop motion videos to demonstrate their understanding of food chains and webs in various habitats/biomes. Check them out below!

All Videos

North American Forest

Desert

Savanna

Arctic

Ocean

Rainforest

Students also reflected on their creations and on the Breakout Edu game they played in class.  Check it out here:
FlipGrid Reflections 

Cross posted on the Oak Grove Digital Archive.

Posted in Fun, Ideas, Lessons, Math, Roanoke County Schools

Breakout EDU

This summer while attending ISTE, I learned about a cool new game for the classroom called Breakout EDU.  Here’s a short video about it.

Since receiving my kit, I’ve played it four times–twice with my college students and twice with fifth graders.  All ages loved it.  For the fifth grade game, I used an adaptation of two of the games on the site (http://www.breakoutedu.com/).  The game centered around missing iPads, and students had to use their knowledge of place value to decode the clues to find them.

There are many games already pre-made to use with the kits (for free) and I enjoy making them up too.  I’m looking forward to playing with some first graders on Halloween!