iPads in Education- F13

The site: Kid Science Biology Experiments this is a free app. https://tunes.apple.com/us/kids-science-biology-experiments/id467237421?mt Purpose of Lesson: Students will make intelligent Predictions, the ability to be able to form a hypothesis based on current knowledge. This app allows for many modes of delivery, the teacher could present to to the whole class, stopping the videos at opportune moments to have students make individual predictions, or if you have several iPads, students could work in pairs watching the experiments and collaborating to make a prediciton. This app fosters and allows for the following skills: Prediction, Data Collectiion, Recording Data, Evaluating, Analyzing Results, Synthesizing Information, making a conclusion based upon hypothesis (did they prove or disprove their hypothesis). Assessments: There are several possibilities:Online quizzes, students recreate lab, stop the video and perform the lab, compare their results to the video, and lab reports

Biotechnology Grades 6-8 as described I'd argue to include grade 9 and add extensions. The goals of this lesson are to fully engage students and increase their understanding of the workings of the nervous system. Students will know that the human body uses electric signals to send messages to and from the brain and that these signals permit the body to sense and respond to the world. Students will learn that computer chips or electrodes might someday repair or augment that system in ways that seem today like science fiction. This lesson introduces students to cyborg augmentation. This lesson does not directly address iPad apps but will certainly benefit from apps such as The Human Brain.

Students show what they have learned about the Gold Rush by creating a puppet show using this app.

QR codes have many different uses in the classroom. In this activity, students use the codes to go on a scavenger hunt as a way to explore their new school environment.

This is a simple lesson where students search landforms on Google Earth and make posters showing landforms vocabulary in Social Studies.