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Modeling Handheld Use in the Classroom
As an educator, you know that having the tool does not lead to improved learning. Integrating the tool within the lesson as a way of assisting students understand, collaborate, build their knowledge and expertise, and express their own creative thinking and problem solving abilities is the ultimate goal.
Ideas for using the handheld are many and varied. Moving from the idea to implementation takes time for lesson development. As listed in 101 Great Educational Uses for Your Handheld Computer by Karen Fasimpaur, there are more than 101 ideas for using the handheld in the classroom. Some of those ideas are:
Read eBooks |
Keep Journals |
Brainstorm Concept Maps |
Use Probes to test temp., water, light, pH, heart rate, etc. |
Draw a picture |
Make a concept map |
Form, visualize and solve equations |
Record observations on a field trip |
Find locations with a GPS |
Study and compose music |
Graph data |
Conduct a stock market simulation |
Use a tutorial for self-study |
Take notes and write a research paper |
Study a foreign language |
Take part in a collaborative simulation |
Listen to speeches |
Record interviews |
Take pictures and make a photo album |
Manage a collaborative project |
Study for a test |
Read about the latest current events |
Ceate an outline |
Create fitness records |
Create a database of endangered species |
Write an eBook and share it with others |
Make a presentation |
Record voice notes |
Access online educational events |
Collaborate on a graphic organizer |
Several model lessons were created to be used in the South Dakota workshops. You will find the pdf documents for each lesson listed below:
Children's Illustrated
eTales
Subject Area: Language Arts
Grade Level: Lower Elementary
Student will learn there are different ways to read literature and that
the lvoe of reading can be an anywhere, anytime activity. Students will
also learn to compose their own stories from illustrations.
The Dark Mark
Subject Area: Language Arts
Grade Level: Middle School
Students will demonstrate comprehension of a literary piece by doing a
prereading activity, use reading strategies and make connections with
text in order to answer questions about the passage.
What Country Am
I?
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade Level: Middle School
Students will learn research skills, use writing skills to create a mystery
quiz, and then write reports combining writing with geography knowledge
about map skills.
Checks and Balances:
Our Government
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade Level: High School
Students will break up into groups to make concept maps about the branches
of U.S. government. These concept maps are then used for assessment purposes
or as a framework for advanced essays.
To Eat or Be Eaten
Subject Area: Science, Language Arts
Grade Level: 2-4
Students will display a food chain and a food web of an animal to display
their knowledge of the relationships of plants and animals in the goal
to survive.
Traveling Through the
Atmosphere
Subject Area: Science
Grade Level: 6-9
Students will demonstrate the order of each layer of the Earth's atmosphere
by illustrating what objects might be found in each layer beginning at
the troposphere and endcing in the exosphere.
Bright Lights
Subject Area: Science
Grade Level: High School
Students investigate how light inensity changes as they alter the distance
between themselves and a light bulb.
Fraction Flowers
Subject Area: Math, Art
Grade Level: 2-4
Students will demonstrate their understanding of simple fractions being
a part of a whole through drawing and coloring of flower petals.
Tessellation Creation
Subject Area: Mathematics, Visual Art
Grade Leve: Middle School
Students will learn the basics of geometry and use this knowledge to create
a tessellation following the rules of geometry.
Discovering Y-intercept
and Slope of a Line
Subject Area: Algebra
Grade Level: High School
The student will explore different equations of lines. Through this exploration
they will be able to draw the connections between the slope-intercept
form of a line and what the graphs of those lines look like. The students
will be able to graph a line given an equation in slope-intercept form.
