Brochure Making on Pages

I was approached by one of the fourth grade teachers to find another brochure making tool that will allow students to create their own brochure and print out the brochure they made for a research project. Last year, the fourth grade class used an old Microsoft program called "Publisher." We no longer use the MS Office Suite with students and instead have iPads available for students to use. What better way to get the fourth graders ready to use pages in MS then to have the students learn how to make brochures on the iPad! I created a lesson to have the students explore brochure making on the iPad, changing the backgrounds, adding images, editing fonts, and organizing their columns and sections for their content. It 's great to allow the students to explore making the brochure on their own before I provide a little more details or specific ways to do something.

Prior to working on pages, I did some extensive work with Keynote on the iPads with the fourth grade class, and many of the menu options and functions transfer pretty well when students switch from Keynote to Pages because of the Apple Work suite.