A Shape Is Not A Shape Unless You Add An iPad….

During Kindergarten Math workshop students listened to the story The Shape of Things, by Dayle Ann Dodds and Julie Lacome (Illustrator).

The class created a shape poster by looking around the room and finding objects that look like their shapes they chose.  Students then incorporated the iPads by taking pictures of their shape and thought about what they could add to it to make it into a digital design.  After they completed their designs, students wrote a sentence describing their picture.  Adding the finishing touches students recorded themselves talking about their shape picture using the sentence:

“A ____ is just a ____ until you add _____, then it is a ____. “

Creating the project, sharing with others, and the conversations about the learning helped to solidify student learning and build a strong conceptual base for their understanding of two dimensional shapes.  Additionally, because students saved their video in Educreations to be shared online, student projects could be re-visited time and time again to help refresh and review their knowledge of shapes.

When Mrs. Laura Janese and Mrs. Julie Peters set out to transform student learning through technology even they were amazed by the end result of 2 students in particular: Ally Peng and Kasey Dwyer.  This product not only was a classroom experience that changed student learning it became an exemplar that became a showcase product at and at TechnoExpo 2014