5th Grade – Teaching with Technology

Designing Animal and Plant Cells in Minecraft Edu

Image• Posted on January 20, 2019October 24, 2022 by Tina Coffey

Fun, Ideas, Lessons, Math, Roanoke County Schools

Breakout EDU

Posted on October 16, 2016July 5, 2017 by Tina Coffey

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!

Augmented Reality, iPad, Roanoke County Schools, Science

NASA Spacecraft Lands at Oak Grove

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Tina Coffey

NASA Spacecrafts visited Oak Grove in Mrs. Becker’s 5th Grade Science class last week. Okay, so they didn’t actually visit for real, but virtually they did, thanks to the augmented reality iPad app called Spacecraft 3D. This app allowed students to view 3D digital replicas of the spacecraft and explore them in the classroom environment.

It’s easy to make it look like a spacecraft has landed near you!

Students blogged about their experience with this activity. Check out their posts on their blogs.

Cross posted on the Oak Grove Digital Archive.

English, QR Codes

High Tech Snowmen at night

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Tina Coffey

Students in Mrs. Osburn’s writing classes introduced their new class blogs with high tech snowmen! They created snowmen based on the book, Snowmen At Night, and wrote short blog posts about them. Then, they created QR Codes to attach to their snowmen. When parents came for the 5th Grade Music program, they were able to scan the QR codes, read the corresponding blog posts, and leave comments for the students.

Check out their blogs here:

Rotation 1

Rotation 2

Rotation 3

Would you please leave a few comments for these new bloggers?

iPad, Lessons, Music, Projects, Roanoke County Schools

Sock Puppet Music

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Tina Coffey

Socks in Mrs. Howell’s class have been singing! Not student’s real socks, thank goodness, but virtual socks on the iPad app Sock Puppets! Take a look:

Sock Puppet Music from Tina Coffey on Vimeo.