Explore 30 fun, constructive, and creative activities to do with built-in features of iPad (you can also use an iPhone). Designed for children in grades PK–2, these activities can easily be tailored for the whole family.

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.

In our new episode of Homeroom we are joined by, Kerri Hopkins and Anne Dibble from the Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program to discuss how all teachers can bring more art into their classrooms. We learn how arts can improve academic performance across all subjects, the need to overcome our fears when expanding into the arts, and the different programs available to Utah schools through BTSALP.

Inesired by Peter H. Reynolds’s book, The Dot, Marc Faulder encourages his young learners to use drawings, photos, and voice recordings to share their ideas about how they can create positive change in the world.

This is a lesson plan created by Diane Timothy to teach students how to create a collage of different shapes and colors for a second-grade elementary class. This is done digitally on the Pages app. on an iPad. This lesson allows students to learn the app as a class and then get into small groups and work and collaborate together. Eventually students will make a collage with 6 different shapes and colors.Teachers can learn how to use the app in section 2 of this lesson plan.Come join the fun!

In this activity, students learn about astronomical phenomena we can see in the universe and create their own music inspired by astronomical images. By performing original musical improvisations, students enhance their knowledge of what astronomical phenomena are represented in images and experiment with creative ways of representing these using music. This activity engages students in first hand exploration of music and astronomy connections.

Review the environmental factors that make the Earth habitable and compare them to other worlds within our Solar System. Use creative thinking to design an alien life form suited for specific environmental conditions on an extra-terrestrial world within our Solar System.

Everyone Can Create is for everyone — both beginners and experienced artists alike. The activities and projects encourage you to express yourself, develop your creative confidence and reveal undiscovered abilities.

Everyone Can Create is for everyone — both beginners and experienced artists alike. The activities and projects encourage you to express yourself, develop your creative confidence, and reveal undiscovered abilities.

Everyone Can Create Teacher Guide is designed to help educators integrate creative skills into the topics and subjects they teach every day. It’s the companion to the Everyone Can Create collection of project guides that contain self-paced activities that teach students how to express themselves through drawing, music, video, and photo.

Everyone Can Create Teacher Guide for Early Learners is designed to help educators integrate creative skills into the topics and subjects they teach every day. Based on the Everyone Can Create project guides and teacher guide for upper grades, this Teacher Guide for Early Learners helps teachers of students ages 4-8 use iPad to creatively express themselves through drawing, music, video, and photo.

Everyone Can Create is for everyone — both beginners and experienced artists alike. The activities and projects encourage you to express yourself, develop your creative confidence, and reveal undiscovered abilities.

This is a Wakelet collection of Google tools for personalized learning and creativity.

In honor of International Podcast Day, Jared and Dani kick off season three of UEN Homeroom with a discussion on innovation during COVID. They discuss topics such as: the innovative ways in which Utah teachers are instructing students, what innovation looks like in our current classrooms, and how to help struggling teachers to adapt the "new now" they are facing in schools.

Osmo is an app that teaches kids everything from coding to math. Osmo has been adopted in over 30,000 schools in 42 countries around the world. Teachers are raving about how their students love experimenting, exploring, creating and collaborating with Osmo.

If you really like using these Venn diagrams, try creating your own. Or better yet, why not have your students get creative and come up with some venn diagrams that will have them and others thinking deeply about mathematics! This link has a blank template and is a place for you to submit your own creations.

In this episode of UEN’s PDTV, host Katie Blunt visits Escalante Elementary in Salt Lake City to meet with the school’s Beverly Taylor Sorensen visual arts specialist, Megan Hallet. First, Megan shows us how she uses Utah’s Ed Tech competencies to create art lessons that teach beyond the classroom. Then, Katie shares insight into how you can incorporate creativity into your classroom to encourage students to connect positively to their society.

In this episode of PDTV, Host Katie Blunt travels to Park City, Utah, to see the 4Cs of education in action! Kindergarten teacher Amanda Lewing at Trailside Elementary shares how she’s had success using technology tools to develop creative and engaging lessons that encourage the 4Cs in her classroom.

Jean-Paul used the Live Loops chapter in the Everyone Can Create Music project guide to make a rap in GarageBand about one of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights articles.