W1 - Third Grade

Teaming up with the third grade team I was informed they wanted to do a project involving saving pictures from the internet onto the student's iPads and using those pictures in an iMovie.

It's great to have the big picture, but with third graders I had to make sure the students knew how to do simple things like opening the app Safari and typing in a web address.


I used direct instruction to show the students how to open Safari, type in the website kidrex.org, search for pictures of wolves, select a website link, select an image, and save that image to their photos. This process of instruction and then letting the students practice took about 15 minutes. Once the students saved one photo of wolves I had them save photos of biome animals and plants that they researched.

After the 15 minutes was up, I showed students how to find the photos they just saved in the Photos app and create a photo album of their photos to separate their photos from everything else in their Camera Roll.