Lemon Tech Tidbits

  Escape rooms are a great way for students to practice resilience and creative thinking. There are many different digital escape rooms available. I thought I would share a few here that are ready to be used for the winter season: Snowman Math for 1st-2nd graders (I created this one for math review) Find the Abominable Snowman for 6-8th grade (I created this one for math review) Iditarod Digital Escape Room for 3-6th grade (another one of mine) Mr. Popper’s Penguins (I created this to go with the book) Winter Breakout (easy level) Snowman Stumper (harder level) Merry Merry Breakout  for 4th-8th grade Elf on the Shelf Google Form Breakout for 3-6th grade Christmas, Hanukkah, and Around the World Breakouts (with answers) from Matt Miller Deck.Toys Holiday Digital Escape Rooms (search by grade level and holiday) Cracking the Christmas Code for grades 6-12 (free download from TpT) Finding Rudolph for elementary students

  AntiMatter is not just a science term, it is a company that was developed with a simple idea: “if a student really understands a topic, then they will be able to make a meme about it.”  Students can make a meme using the built-in generation tools built into the system. They then share them with each other over the curriculum topic. A teacher can assign a prompt and have the students create a meme around that prompt. They can then discuss the memes created together. Another activity available is the ability to create a text conversation between two characters using the “New Phone, Who Dis” application.  Now, Antimatter has released their AI version called Sorcerer . (it is still in Beta form). The idea behind this new project is the ability for students to see what they know or need to know about a topic. The students would start by naming their Sorcerer. They then put in the topic they are currently learning in class. Once everything is set up, they then “visit” their named Sorcerer

  Keeping with the Gratitude theme, there are a few other blog posts that I thought I would share with you. These could make wonderful activities to do with students in this short week before Thanksgiving vacation.  WeAreTeachers has a post about creating Thank You letters and cards to teachers. Included at the bottom is a link to download all 19 thank you cards. Another post includes 13 thank you cards for those extra special people in a school building such as cooks and janitors.  Ronnie Williams from Greenbush has shared a post over Awesome Thanksgiving Resources to be used. Canva for Education has many already created templates you can use with your students to talk about Gratitude. For example, here is a template for a gratitude jar worksheet. On a Facebook group titled Teachers Teaching With Tech, Christina Peet Nunez shared an Attitude of Gratitude Hyperdoc lesson ideas for elementary through high school students to use. You can access it here .

  One of the hot new tools right now is Figjam for Educators. It is basically a white board in which all students can participate from their iPads or Chromebooks. I previously talked about Figjam in the Tech Tidbits before. Hopefully, you have explored this new tool.  Recently, Alice Keehler has been doing a deep dive into Figjam on her blog. She recently had a post about how to save a background image to Figjam so students don’t accidentally move any key features. Another blog post is where she shared a template ready to be used over Gratitude which is perfect for the Holidays. To find more templates ready to be used, you can search this site: https://www.figma.com/@education or see the ones Alice Keehler has created by going here: https://www.figma.com/@alicekeeler

  What is it? Khan Academy Kids is a comprehensive early learning program created for students between the ages of two to eight years old. It was created to help provide individual practice for foundational skills. Once installed, students will have individual learning paths to help guide them through the activities. Teachers can check in on them to see their progress or provide them with individual activities from the library of resources.  How much is it? Like all Khan Academy apps and websites, this app is FREE! What does Khan Academy have? A few of the activities include reading comprehension worksheets, teachers tools such as setting up a class or finding resources by state standards, circle time of youtube videos with interactive stories and much more. Where can I find more info? Watch this quick introduction video about the app or watch this video to see an example of one of the activities.

  Curipod has recently announced two updates created for elementary students. One is titled Word of the Day . It is a vocabulary building activity. The students learn a new word, get to make a sentence with the newly learned word, and practice synonyms and antonyms. It was created for grades K-4. The other one is Paragraph of the Week. This activity was created for students to practice writing a paragraph based on an interesting prompt. It was created for grades 2-6. If you have not spent any time exploring Curipod, I would strongly recommend you do. Not only can Curipod create an interactive slides to add into your presentation (thanks to AI), but there are so many already completed and ready to use lessons and presentations available in the Discover library. Not only are the lessons engaging but they tell you exactly how much time it would take to go through the presentation. Curipod is free for teachers to use with some limits. One of the limits is you can only have five presenta