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.

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.

In this lesson I will introduce 3 different I-pad apps to my class.l In the end we will have created an A-Z book together as a class using all three apps. This lesson will take about 3-4 days depending on class size and time spent during the day working on this lesson. This lesson will be done face-to-face in a whole class setting.This lesson is created by me, Brianne Anderson.

This lesson takes students through 3 iPad apps to explore and explain animal habitats. Students will use the drawing tool in Pages to complete two pictures of animal habitats, use Keynote to follow links to San Diego zoo cameras and record their own audio describing the exhibits, and finally use iMovie to record themselves in their favorite animal habitat!*The thumbnail image was taken by Lindsay Stahl at the Living Planet Aquarium

Engage students with a set of AR activities that are perfect for kids ages 8 and up. And get the full collection of AR lesson ideas to use in your curriculum and easily share with others.

Augmented reality (AR) allows students to learn about the world by enhancing how they can relate to, contextualize, and interact with it through movement and active exploration.With iPad, students can use AR to explore outer esace, immerse themselves in the wonders of the world, and examine art and historical artifacts from national museums—in any learning environment. They can visualize experiences that would be impossible to see otherwise.Whether you want to extend an existing lesson or inesire new ones, you can use and apply AR in math and science, language arts, history, and social studies to elevate engagement, deepen understanding, and make learning more personal and meaningful for students of all ages.

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.

Students will pick out the main theme for the book and discuss the elements used to make up the story. They will use the iPad App Story Creator to illustrate and write their own story. They will be learning how to take a paper illustration and put it into a digital story and add their own text. This can be adapted to 4-6 grades.

Presenting information in compelling ways is even more important when you’re not able to be face-to-face with your students. In this video we’ll show you how to use iPad built-in features to create demos and instructional videos and share them with your colleagues and students. Using Keynote, or any presentation tool, you’ll learn how to record content and create demos on iPad for use with your students.

This is a lesson plan where students create a movie about quadrilaterals and naming them by their attributes.

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 lesson dives into the life of Pocahontas and John Smith through the reading of primary sources. Class discussions take place to evaluate what students know and understand. Students utilize Ipad technology to create a pamphlet that focuses on the importance of primary sources. 

This lesson dives into the life of Pocahontas and John Smith through the reading of primary sources. Class discussions take place to evaluate what students know and understand. Students utilize Ipad technology to create a pamphlet that focuses on the importance of primary sources. 

This lesson plan has been created to help students build their annotation skills, close reading skills, and ability to identify and analyze the central idea of a text.  This lesson plan also has been created to build digital annotation skills using the Pages application for iPad.  The overall outcome of this lesson plan is to show students the benefits of annotating a text using a digital tool and then taking the information from a text and applying it to create a Public Service Announcement that will bring awareness to a real-world issue or historical event that has had a large impact on our society.  

First Grade Language Arts, Reading: Literature Standard 3--Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.  Students will be able retell the setting, characters, and major events in a story and will demonstrate this knowledge through creating a Keynote presentation.