3. Flora and Fauna apps
Atlas of Living Australia
Museum Victoria’s “Field Guide to
Victorian Fauna”
Zoo’s Victoria “Act Wild”
Ecolinc Field Guide to the VVP
4. Voice recorder
• For reluctant writers
• Students who have difficulty with literacy
• Record predictions, observations and
explanations
• Not necessarily assessing literacy but
understanding of science concepts
5. Communication with Images
• Find creative commons images on “Flickr”
,“Getty Images” or search
http://creativecommons.org
• Take a screen shot and then crop the image
with “Crop Suey”.
• Annotate the image with “Etch Lite” eg.
Experimental equipment
• Draw diagrams with “Draw Free” or “Doodle
Buddy” eg. Water Cycle
• Images can be sent by email to the teacher or
to a “Posterous” blog.
6. Evaluate Understanding
• Students can create their own images
and videos using pictures stored in the
device or Creative Commons images
clipped from the internet.
• They can annotate photographs or
other images from the Photo Album.
• Draw your own Water Cycle or diagram
of experimental equipment and save it,
email it or post it to a “Posterous” class
blog.
7. • Students can use
“Draw Free” to create
diagrams to insert in
digital stories or email
their drawing to you
as an ‘exit slip’
•“What did you learn
today about
photosynthesis?”
• “Draw a labelled
diagram of how you
will set up the
equipment
tomorrow.”
8. Communication
• Use “Strip Designer” or
“Comic Touch” to annotate
images and create comics.
• “My Life as a Carbon Atom”
• “Journey down the Digestive
System”
• “How Rocks are Formed”
9. Skitch for annotating images
• Use an image from the
camera roll or creative
commons image from
the internet
• Annotate to label parts
or explain processes
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15. Explain Everything and Show Me
• Create short, sharp
screencasts to
explain a concept
using images,
annotations, text and
audio
16. iCard Sort for Matching
• Match key terms
and definitions
• Classify and group
• Body systems
• Rock Types
17. Thinglink – a digital bucket
• Create a dynamic,
interactive image with
links to various videos,
web pages and other
digital content.
• Use as a way of checking
student references for
projects.
18. Explaining Biology
• Virtual dissections are
possible with the
iPad, for students
who are squeamish, if
you cannot obtain
specimens or for
practise prior to the
real thing.
19. Explaining Cells
• iCell has annotated diagrams of plant,
animal and bacterial cells (iPod only)
• 3D CellStain allows users to selectively
stain different organelles.
• Vcell has animations about
photosynthesis and the electron
transport chain.
20. Exploring with QR codes
• Use a mobile phone or iPad with a camera to scan a
“quick response” code, which is similar to a bar
code.
• It allows almost instant print to mobile to web
messaging, with the code directing the user to a
website.
• Information, such as names, addresses, phone
numbers and URL’s, are stored in the code, which
can hold up to 7,000 digits.
• There are web and mobile apps which generate QR
codes, so students can create their own codes.
21. QR codes
• Use the qrstuff
website to create
your own codes
• Link to studentcreated content
and scan to share
23. Evaluate Understanding
• Students can create their own digital stories
using text, images and audio.
• “Reel Director” is a movie making app using
your own videos or images from the Photo
Album and allows you to add your own audio,
including music from iTunes.
• “Show Me” allows you to create ‘Khan-style’
video clips using drawing and audio recording.