Explore creative activities for kids ages 8–12+ that are fun to do with built-in features on iPad. Each activity is easy for students to get started on their own and can be tailored for older ages with a focus on literacy. Encourage your students to try all 30 ideas, esend a week making movies, make art out of code, and so much more. These activities are great to share with parents to keep kids creative while learning at home.

Discover 30 fun and simple ideas for using built-in apps and features of iPad. Designed for teachers, these tips can help you save time on many tasks you do daily. Use Safari to easily eliminate distractions from web pages, and quickly create a PDF of any web page to share with students. Use Notes to digitize a printed handout you already have, or create engaging interactive handouts in Pages. You’ll find a wealth of ideas to help you stay organized, manage tasks, gather instructional resources, and more.

Google folder with resources for teaching Weather and Climate Patterns, including Googles Slides and accompanying studnent journal files. Contains 4 episodes.

This is a third-grade student science experience tied to SEEd standard 3.1.1. In this experience students analyze data by looking for patterns that identify typical weather conditions during a season.
These experiences were designed to support students in engaging in science investigations with siblings and/or parents at home and then report back about what was discovered. They were created in a way that is easily adaptable for both online and printed formats. They are formatted to help students wonder about and investigate the science phenomena happening in the world around them. These experiences do not describe how students should write up and return work to their teacher. It is up to each teacher to adapt them to best meet student needs. When individualized by the teacher, a student could be asked to engage in one or more of these experiences a week and report back. This format aligns closely to the vision and expectation of the SEEd standards.

This is a third-grade student science experience tied to SEEd standard 3.1.2. In this experience students obtain and communicate information about climate patterns.
These experiences were designed to support students in engaging in science investigations with siblings and/or parents at home and then report back about what was discovered. They were created in a way that is easily adaptable for both online and printed formats. They are formatted to help students wonder about and investigate the science phenomena happening in the world around them. These experiences do not describe how students should write up and return work to their teacher. It is up to each teacher to adapt them to best meet student needs. When individualized by the teacher, a student could be asked to engage in one or more of these experiences a week and report back. This format aligns closely to the vision and expectation of the SEEd standards.

Bring the vocabulary of film to life through the processes of filmmaking. Students learn terminology and techniques simultaneously as they plan, film, and edit a short video.

Develop and use models to describe changes that organisms go through during their life cycles. Emphasize that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but follow a pattern of birth, growth, reproduction, and death. Examples of changes in life cycles could include how some plants and animals look different at different stages of life or how other plants
and animals only appear to change size in their life.

Construct an explanation showing how variations in traits and behaviors can affect the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce. Examples of traits could include large thorns protecting a plant from being eaten or strong-smelling flowers to attract certain pollinators. Examples of behaviors could include animals living in groups for protection or migrating to find more food.

This is a third-grade student science experience tied to SEEd standard 3.2.5. In this experience students create an argument for why certain plants and animals live in certain habitats.
These experiences were designed to support students in engaging in science investigations with siblings and/or parents at home and then report back about what was discovered. They were created in a way that is easily adaptable for both online and printed formats. They are formatted to help students wonder about and investigate the science phenomena happening in the world around them. These experiences do not describe how students should write up and return work to their teacher. It is up to each teacher to adapt them to best meet student needs. When individualized by the teacher, a student could be asked to engage in one or more of these experiences a week and report back. This format aligns closely to the vision and expectation of the SEEd standards.

Google folder with Googles Slides and accompanying studnent journal files. Contains 5 episodes.

Plan and carry out investigations that provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize investigations where only one variable is tested at a time. Examples could include an unbalanced force on one side of a ball causing it to move and balanced forces pushing on a box from both sides producing no movement.

Analyze and interpret data from observations and measurements of an object’s motion to identify patterns in its motion that can be used to predict future motion. Examples of motion with a predictable pattern could include a child swinging on a swing or a ball rolling down a ramp.