Math Can Be Fun!

YouTube
What is YouTube?

It's a network that you can access videos from all around the world. Anyone can sign up for a YouTube account and upload their videos. Many people have become celebrities because of their videos on YouTube. It's also a great way to share videos with family and friends. This network is daily entertainment for people around the world. 

What does this tool means for me as a student in the Education Program?

I can use YouTube to help me easily learn concepts that I want to teach. There will be times where I will need to refresh my mind on certain topics. I can access videos to help me prepare for lessons. I can also use videos as a tool for my lessons.

What will I do with this tool as a future teacher?

I can use YouTube videos in my lessons to make the students more focused. Students learn better through videos more than ever if they keep their attention. This will help me to give different varieties of teaching methods. 

PROS of 

• There are so many different kinds of videos
• Easy to find videos
• Don't have to create an account to use it

CONS of

• It is hard to use YouTube on certain wifis. So it might be difficult as a teacher to use
• Can easily get distracted using it
• Sometimes there are too many options

How will I use this tool in my classroom to present information?

Like I said before students have short attention spans. Using videos will allow students to receive information in a different to help them understand.  

How can my students utilize this tool?

For homework assignments. I can tell them to watch my videos that are on the classroom blog. Then in class we can talk about what they had learned in the videos. 

1st Grade: Mathematics

UEN Standards:

Standard 1.OA.3
Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract. For example: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 =12. (Associative property of addition.) First grade students need not use formal terms for these properties.

Standard 1.OA.4
Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 – 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8.

Standard 1.OA.5
Relate counting to addition and subtraction. For example, by counting on 2 to add 2.

ISTE Standards:

Creative Communicator - I communicate effectively and express myself creatively using different tools, styles, formats, and digital media.

UEN Ed Tech Standards:

Standard 5
Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

Do You Want to Hear a Story?

Storybird

What is Storybird?

It's a fast way of creating our own storybooks. Users can pick from picture books, poem books or long story books. It provides hundreds of different art you can pick from for you theme. Once you pick a theme it has hundreds of pictures to choose from for your story. there are a couple different ways of setting up each page. It's easy to put in text as well. 

What does this tool means for me as a student in the Education Program?

I can create my own books to use for lessons to show my students that anyone can create a book. In the program, I can create books for standards that might be hard to teach on. In the Education Program, I can use my own material for presentations. 

What will I do with this tool as a future teacher?

I can show to my students how easy it is to create a book and that anyone can do it. Some lessons are hard to teach to students because it's hard for them to stay focused but with Storybird, I can teach any lesson in a picture book. This will be very convenient as a teacher. 

PROS of 

• Organizes everything for you
• Many options for pictures
• One of the easiest programs I have ever used
• Easy to share
• FUN!

CONS of

• The pictures are stacked. So you have to drag pictures to find them
• Can't preview book until after you publish it

How will I use this tool in my classroom to present information?

I can use picture books to present any kind of information I would like. When I know my students have a hard time paying attention to a certain subject, then I can use Storybird to present the information. Students will be entertained and will learn.

How can my students utilize this tool?

I can make all my books I create available online for my students to look at while at home. They can also create their own picture books about share them with the class. This tool is great for helping students be motivated to write. 

 

1st Grade: Reading

UEN Standards:

Reading: Literature Standard 4
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

ISTE Standard:

Computational Thinker - I identify authentic problems, work with data and use step-by-step process to automate solutions. 

UEN Ed Tech Standards:

Standard 5
Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. 

Time to Measure!

Piktochart

What is Piktochart?

It's a program that allows users to make info graphics. It has different templates you can select or you can create your own. Along with that, you can add your own background, insert shapes and pictures. There are many different ways you can be creative with this tool.

What does this tool means for me as a student in the Education Program?

I can use Piktochart for my lessons plans. It a creative way to mix up lessons and to get information across to students. 

What will I do with this tool as a future teacher?

I can create my own posters for my classroom for the different lesson we will have each week. The students can look at them to help them remember the material I will be covering in the classroom

PROS of 

• Organizes everything for you
• Looks professional
• Allows you to upload pictures and different art

CONS of

• Takes a long time to create
• It's difficult to make place items on infographic
• If you use it your first time, it's hard to follow at first on how to work the program

How will I use this tool in my classroom to present information?

I can use my info-graphic to show a summary of a lesson I am teaching. Also, I can print them off and have the students take them home and put it on their walls. This will allow them to remember the material when they are home. 

How can my students utilize this tool?

They take the info graphic home with them and use it to remember the information they have learned in class. Also they use look at it in the classroom while they are doing homework assignments. 


2nd Grade: Mathamatics 

UEN Standards:

Standard 2.MD.1

Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.

Standard 2.MD.2
Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen.

ISTE Standards:

Empowered Learner - I use technology to set goals, work toward achieving them and demonstrating learning. 

Creative Communicator - I communicate effectively and express myself creatively using different tools, styles, formats, and digital media.

UEN Ed Tech Standards: 

Standard 5 

Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. (3, 4)

The Early Days of Utah

Tiki-Toki

What is Tiki-Toki?

It's an organized way of creating timelines. You are able to create different stories and upload pictures, videos and links to website to add more information to the text. You add all the information and Tiki-Toki organizes it for you. 

What does this tool means for me as a student in the Education Program?

I can use Tiki-Toki when I create lessons about history. It's going to be great for social studies. It will organize all the events. Even though it took me a long time to make several slides, it makes it look professional. 

What will I do with this tool as a future teacher?

This tool will be great for students to discover history on their own. I can use my Utah's History Timeline for homework or even computer time where the students can explorer how Utah became a state. It will take time to create it, but it gives great information to the students. 

PROS of 

• Organizes everything for you
• Easy to understand
• Looks professional
• Allows you to upload videos, pictures and shows links to websites

CONS of

• Takes a long time to create
• Only shows one picture in the background
• If you use it your first time, it's hard to follow at first on how to work the program

How will I use this tool in my classroom to present information?

I would use my timelines from Tiki-Toki to create information for the students to explorer on their own. This can be homework or I can use computer lab time to let them discover information for themselves. 

How can my students utilize this tool?

My students can have access to the timelines I create and this can help them review for test, quizzes and assignments. Student can also create their own timelines for presentations.

Learn about how Utah became a state!

4th Grade: Social Studies

UEN Standards:

Standard 2
Students will understand how Utah's history has been shaped by many diverse people, events, and ideas.


Objective 2
Describe ways that Utah has changed over time.

Identify key events and trends in Utah history and their significance (e.g. American Indian settlement, European exploration, Mormon settlement, westward expansion, American Indian relocation, statehood, development of industry, World War I and II).

ISTE Standard: 

Empowered Learner - I use technology to set goals, work toward achieving them and demonstrating learning. 

UEN Ed Tech Standards:

Standard 5 
Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. (3, 4)

Choose to Keep Your Body Safe!

Animoto

What is Animoto?

It's an easy website to create videos. The website already has background music for the videos. You are also able to upload your own music if you would like. After choosing music, you can add text and pictures. Animoto makes it easy to create your own videos with the style you like. 

What does this tool means for me as a student in the Education Program?

When I have to create videos for presentations, I can use animoto to create them. It will save me lots of time while preparing for my presentations and lessons. 

What will I do with this tool as a future teacher?

This is a great tool for me to use to teach lessons with my students. Also, I can have my students use animoto to create their own videos if they ever do presentations in the classroom. My students can become excellent video makers with animoto.

PROS of 

• Music is already provided
• Easy to add text and upload photos
• Many different styles you can choose for your video

CONS of

• You can't choose the specific time you want each slide of the video to last. You can only star a slide and it will add 3 extra seconds to it.
• It would be nice to be able to write a little more on each slide. 
• Difficult to upload videos to computer and to share videos

How will I use this tool in my classroom to present information?

 I can create short videos to present information to my students. In my classroom, I don't want to lecture to my students all day. I would like to mix it up so they will pay attention. Using videos in my lessons with help students pay more attention. 

How can my students utilize this tool?

My students can create their own videos with animoto. There will be times in the classroom where they will have to give a presentation. They can use videos for their presentation to share information with the other students. 

Short Term Effects of Alcohol & Tobacco

Long Term Effects of Alcohol & Tobacco

Second-Hand Smoking

Cost of Tobacco & Alcohol

UEN Standard: 

3rd Grade: Health Education

Standard 2
The students will adopt health-promoting and risk-reducing behaviors to prevent substance abuse.

Objective 1
Recognize the health implications of alcohol and tobacco use.
Identify both the short- and long-term effects of alcohol and tobacco use.
Describe the effects of passive smoke.
Determine the financial impact of alcohol and tobacco use.

ISTE Standards:

Creative Communicator - I communicate effectively and express myself creatively using different tools, styles, formats and digital media.

Knowledge Constructor - I critically select, evaluate and synthesize digital resources into a collection that reflects my learning and builds my knowledge. 

UEN Ed Tech Standards: 

Standard 8
Use technology resources (e.g., calculators, data collection probes, videos, educational software) for problem-solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities.