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TPACK Template Mobile Applications Assignment

Mobile Application for Creating Mobile Application for Collaborating

Subject Focus on one subject Science
area

Grade Level This may be the 4th Grade 5th Grade

same or different for each app.

Learning Objective SOL 4.4 The student will investigate and understand SOL 5.5 The student will investigate and understand
The objective of the lesson is what
students will be able to do as they
basic plant anatomy and life processes. Key concepts that organisms are made of one or more cells and
finish the activity. For this objective, include have distinguishing characteristics that play a vital
use the Standards of Learning (SOL)
to say what you want to focus on.
a) the structures of typical plants and the function of role in the organism’s ability to survive and thrive in
You can find the SOLs at each structure; its environment. Key concepts include
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/
look on the right of the screen for the b) classification of organisms using physical
subjects and go from there. characteristics, body structures, and behavior of the
Content

organism;
c) traits of organisms that allow them to survive in
their environment.
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Activity Describe what the In this activity students will work in groups (of two
learning activity will be. What will the
students and the teacher be doing
or three students) to create a short movie that
with the app? includes their research on at least five different
plants. Teacher provides an iPad to each group and
show them how to make movies from pictures in the
iMovie app. Teacher will also demonstrate to
students how to record voiceover in an iMovie
project. Using the iPad, students will take pictures of
at least five different plants in the school garden,
and also pictures of the different parts (root, stem,
leaves, and flowers) of those plants. The students
will make a movie from those pictures and use their
own voiceover in the video to explain the different
Pedagogy
parts of each plant.
Technology iMovie on iOS (iPad)
The name of the Mobile
Application https://www.apple.com/imovie/
Technology
Before you submit, delete the explanatory text (the text in small italics).
In this activity students will work in groups (of three
or four students) to research the classes that
vertebrates are divided into and each group will
complete a “book” about their assigned class.
Teacher assigns one of the five animal classes
(mammal, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds) to
each group. Teacher shows students how to use the
Pages app to create the “book”. Students research
their assignment by using the Internet, textbooks,
reference books, and other resources. Students
create their book collaboratively by working on their
assigned sections that include Cover Page, Habitat
Page, Organism Page, and Fact Page. Using the
Pages app, the students create a book that includes
text and illustrations.
Pages on iOS (iPad)
https://www.apple.com/pages/