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Galena Park ISD - Technology Department

Primary TIPs

2019-2020 - 1st 9 weeks

Grades Kinder - 2nd

Teacher Spotlights

Carrie Cannon, 4th Grade Math/S Teacher at Tice Elementary School, is a phenomenal teacher when it comes to implementing technology into her classroom. She uses her interactive panel with her daily instruction and her students use the panel in centers independently daily. She has created multiple lessons in Math for her grade level. She has participated in the district panel lesson creation day. She has also implemented chromebooks as well as iPads into most lessons. Thank you for being such a great teacher and teaching to our future!

Stephanie Rosas is a 2nd grade teacher at Pyburn Elementary who loves technology! She was quick to volunteer for taking on an interactive panel last year. Soon she was creating her own activities and sharing with other panel teachers. She also integrates ipads and Chromebooks in her classroom instruction. Her students are comfortable using a variety of devices to show-what-they-know. This year she plans to use green screen and digital escape rooms to make learning even more fun and exciting.

Technology News, Apps, & Tools

  • Bookabi app offers fun and simple interface for younger grades. The app allows students to add images and illustrations to tell a story.
  • Classroom Screen offers customizable backgrounds and a variety of widgets to use for classroom management 
  • Flippity.net has a random name picker that makes class randomization easy.
  • Google Jamboard- Interactive online whiteboard used for collaboration.  

Kindergarten TIPs

2019-2020 - 1st 9 weeks

Language Arts 

Math

  • Khan Academy help Kindergarten to learn counting, place value, and practice comparing numbers to 10.
  • Doodle Math is a sweet introduction to a variety of numbers concepts including number names, counting, and basic addition and subtraction. Keep in mind that you can use for the technology choice board projects.
  • Math activity: Ice Cream might be fun and yummy to eat, but it can also be used as a treat that will get your child excited about practicing important math concepts!

Science

  • Learn the Science Safety Rules with a song.
  • PicCollage is an easy photo editor and drawing tool that your students can use during center to illustrate their understanding about seasons. This is an idea for a technology choice board activity.
  • Science4Us has a great online interactive activity for Matter.

Social Studies

Other

1st Grade TIPs

2019-2020 - 1st 9 weeks

Language Arts

  • Have fun with this end punctuation game by Turtle Diary.
  • This cute video on End Punctuation can be used as a brief review at the beginning of a center activity.
  • Try this capitalization game from RoytheZebra to practice capitalizing the first word of a sentence.

Math

Science

Social Studies

  • Students can illustrate one of the class rules using Doodle Buddy. This will count as one of the Choice Board Projects.
  • Use this classic School House Rock video to learn about the Constitution
  • Students can compete in teams to play this fun game about different types of jobs. 

Other

2nd Grade TIPs

2019-2020 - 1st 9 weeks

Language Arts

  • Letter writing 1 ; Letter writing 2- Use these two websites to practice letter writing. With these sites, students can enter information in each section to write a letter to someone.
  • Common Nouns-  Students can practice identifying common nouns in this game.
  • Proper Nouns- Here is a short quiz for students to complete to practice identifying common and proper nouns.

Math

  • Place Value-represent three-digit numbers as bundles of hundreds, tens and ones. 
  • Understanding Place-Value- identify the places and value of digits in different places in numbers within 1,000. 
  • Standard & Expanded Form-play this fun fruit “splat” game to practice expanded and standard forms of numbers within 1,000. Using Google Draw create a graphic organizer using a 3-digit number written in expanded form.  

Science

  • Scientific Investigation - Students can watch a short video about the Scientific Method, then take a short quiz to see what they learned.
  • Properties of Matter- This website explains the three states of matter by physical properties then culminates with a sorting activity where the student places objects into a table.
  • Changes in Properties of Matter- This activity shows students how objects change through either heating or cooling it.

Social Studies

  • Read-Aloud- Students can learn about Abigail Adams through this Raz kids book. It is read aloud and students can follow along.
  • Paul Revere- When studying about Paul Revere, show students this Liberty's Kids video titled, “The Shot Heard Round the World”0
  • During Freedom Week watch this video, “The Constitution For Kids,” to help students learn more about the Constitution.

Other

  • Ken Nesbitt's Poetry- Website of poetry for kids. Using Google Docs or Google Draw have students type a poem and insert a picture.
  • Classtools.net- This website offers a variety of student activities and classroom management resources for teachers.
  • Mensa for Kids- The high IQ society has put together a fun site of puzzles and games designed just for kids.