ABSTRACT

This collection of engaging and simple to use activities will jumpstart students’ learning and help the busy teacher to reinvigorate their teaching through the use of mobile apps and activities that can be used in the classroom.

A wealth of practical activities and advice on how to incorporate over 40 lively and exciting apps into the classroom will enable teachers to deliver creative lessons. This essential guide focuses on a range of apps, including Skitch, QR codes, Comic Life, Do Ink Green Screen, Puppet Pals, Our Story and much more.

This book offers much needed guidance on creative ways to integrate apps within the National Curriculum and how they can be incorporated into the teaching of Key Stages 1 and 2. Enabling teachers to deliver effective and imaginative lessons through the use of apps and providing links to a wide range of online resources, it covers all core areas of the curriculum:

  • English, Maths, Science, Modern Foreign Languages, ICT, History, Geography and PE.

Jumpstart! Apps is an essential classroom resource that will encourage creative and independent learning in children and is the perfect solution for helping teachers, teaching assistants and students integrate apps into their daily practice, make the most of technology at their disposal and deliver imaginative and effective lessons.

chapter 1|5 pages

Tablets and iPads

chapter 2|4 pages

Creativity

What do we mean by it?

chapter 3|8 pages

Skitch

Editing and doodling on documents

chapter 4|9 pages

QR codes

Accessing and creating information points

chapter 5|9 pages

Comic Life

Your learning in pictures

chapter 6|12 pages

Personalising with the Our Story app

chapter 7|13 pages

Explain Everything

Really, explain anything and everything

chapter 8|7 pages

Do Ink Green Screen

Imagine away your classroom

chapter 9|8 pages

Padlet

Collaboration starting with a blank page

chapter 10|6 pages

Scratch

Coding, computational thinking and problem-solving

chapter 11|11 pages

Puppet Pals

I Can Animate

chapter 12|7 pages

Welcome to our digital museum

chapter 13|9 pages

Superheroes

chapter 14|7 pages

Crime scene investigations

chapter 15|15 pages

Story making

chapter 16|6 pages

‘Great British Bake Off '

chapter |7 pages

Teacher tools