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Weekly Creation Theme: Halloween
Few holidays are as exciting for kids as Halloween! The costumes, decorations – and the sugar – give them such a rush! Use this time of year to your advantage and engage your students by creating TinyTap games about Halloween. Here are a few ideas: Take your players through a haunted house, where each tap on the soundboard will lead them into a different spooky room, dark hallway, or creaky staircase Review safety tips for trick-or-treating Make a math … Read More
National Stop Bullying Day
National Stop Bullying Day is coming up on October 14th – here are some ideas on how to bring awareness and compassion into your classroom using TinyTap! Ellen Weber‘s TinyTap game based on Maria Dismondy’s award-winning book The Juice Box Bully encourages students to take a proactive stand against bullying. The lesson includes a vocabulary soundboard, narrative elements exercises, plus an extension activity allowing students to share their own experiences with bullying. Red Chair Press‘ dedicates two of … Read More
Weekly Creation Theme: Outer Space
Celebrate International Space Week (October 4-10, 2015) with TinyTap! Creator Ellen Weber is here with some ideas to make your lessons out-of-this-world: Create a shape puzzle of the solar system and have your students slide the planets into the correct order. Add video of a space mission to your TinyTap lesson to bring your students on a journey beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Of course, there are also lots of “Space” activities already available in the TinyTap Marketplace – check them out! Alternatively, … Read More
Introducing: TinyTap Smart Play
Give less thought to learning more: Choose your starting point and let TinyTap personalize a playlist just for you. With tens of thousands of educational activities created in 30+ languages by teachers from around the world, TinyTap’s Market is the place to learn about anything! … But finding the games that best suit you can be overwhelming! Enter: Smart Play. Choose any game as your starting point, and TinyTap will automagically play next best game for you! Smart … Read More
Weekly Creation Theme: Summer Reading
This week, create a TinyTap game about “Summer Reading.” Students can prepare interactive book reports or compose e-book sequels, and their teachers can create quizzes about the assigned books (like this one about The Paper Bag Princess, for example) or even a survey to see which book their students liked best. Pro tip for students: get a group of friends together to collaborate on the book report and record different voices for each character! Pro tip for teachers: … Read More
Visit TinyTap @ ISTE 2015 – booth 459
Attending ISTE 2015 in Philadelphia? Come visit TinyTap at booth 459 – we want to meet the fine educators behind our market full of lessons! Plus, we’ll be giving away stylus pens and a TinyTap Insights launch offer – special for ISTE attendees! The first 30 teachers who post on Facebook or Twitter saying they will see TinyTap at #ISTE2015 booth 459 will automatically win a stylus pen!