Two Apps Are Better Than One!

Two Apps Are Better Than One!

In this blog I am going to share how my grade 2 class used one app to create our math and used another to explain it.

In another posting I mentioned our Olympic learning block.  This covered language and math as well as our social studies.  During our shared reading on the SmartBoard, we discussed each days events, medal count and athletes that participated.  This knowledge transferred into our math, giving us real data for our surveys and bar graphs.
Together, we created a survey listing the top 5 favourite olympic sports on tv.  Each student had to survey 10 other students in the class and record the data with tally marks (shown below).

Then we used Graph (click link to find out more about this App).  This App can be used in a variety of ways and for different grade levels.  We selected the bar graph, and inputted our data from our surveys into the Graph App. With a little time and effort, the App created the bar graph for us.  The App allows you to save an image of your graph to the camera roll on your iPad (see below).

Can you guess what we did next??? That's correct, we added all the images into Explain Everything.  Slide #1 was a title page, slide #2 was the student survey and slide #3 was the bar graph.  To the bar graph,  students added photos of each sport next to the appropriate bar.  Finally, they recorded their thoughts, and explained the survey relating to the bar graph.  Here they used pointers and arrows ( a fave among the class), to show what they were discussing.

As the paper and pencil practice continued (work sheets), the students added more graphs and explanations into their presentations.

So as you can see... two apps are better than one!