Sarah Lucy 1
TPACK Template Mobile Applications Assignment
Mobile Application for Creating
Subject History and Social Studies
Grade Level 3rd
Learning Objective 3.2 The student will study the early West
Content
African empire of Mali by describing its oral
tradition (storytelling), government (kings), and
economic development (trade).
Activity The teacher will introduce the app StickDraw and
have the class help her make an animation with it.
Then the teacher will instruct the students to
describe Malis government or economic
development in a short essay/storytelling paper.
After the teacher has checked over the students
stories she will have the students animate it by
using the StickDraw app. The teacher will then
share the students animations on the SMARTboard
while the student explains what is going on in their
animation. This may be a multi-day activity.
Pedagogy
Mobile Application for Collaborating
3rd
3.4 The student will develop map skills by
The teacher will give a brief history of cartography
and go over the aspects of a map. The teacher will
introduce the app Padlet and show how the class
can interact and collaborate in real time on the
app. The teacher will have the class participate in a
whole class activity. The teacher will explain to the
students that on the first day of the activity they
will carry their device with them throughout the
day and everyone will take notes in Padlet on how
their school is laid out. On the second day the
teacher will start the map. Then as the week
progresses every student will make contributions
on Padlet on the class map of their school. By the
end of the week each student has to contribute 2-3
features to the map on the app. Then the teacher
will share the finished map on the SMARTboard
and the students will take turns explaining why
parts of the map were added.
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Technology StickDraw Animation Maker Padlet

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