Weekly Creation Theme: The Ocean

 The Ocean

This week, create a TinyTap game inspired by the theme “Oceans.” Your game can be about anything: an audio/visual glossary of the ocean ecosystem; an environmental responsibility unit on the impacts of overfishing and habitat destruction; a math game on finding the sum of two schools of fish; a meteorology lesson on hurricanes and tsunamis; an exercise about what to pack for a trip to the beach … take the theme in whatever direction suits you!

 

Pro tip: flip your classroom and let students learn by teaching! Instead of assigning a game to play, assign a game to create! Just prepare a brief call-to-action.

 

Be sure to save your game publicly and write the theme #oceans in the game description or title so that the rest of the TinyTap community can play and get inspired by your creation!

 

The theme “Oceans” is part of TinyTap’s weekly series featuring designated topics.

 

Weekly Creation Theme: Colors

Colors

This week, create a TinyTap game inspired by the theme “Colors.” Your game can be about anything: an explanation of venn diagrams using primary and secondary colors; a soundboard of the color wheel; a foreign language game with color vocabulary; a science lesson on the visible light spectrum; a bible story about Joseph and his coat of many colors … take the theme in whatever direction suits you!

 

Pro tip: draw your own images with the app Paper, save them to your device, and import them into your TinyTap game.  

 

Be sure to save your game publicly and write the theme #colors in the game description or title so that the rest of the TinyTap community can play and get inspired by your creation!

 

The theme “Colors” is part of TinyTap’s weekly series featuring designated topics.

 

 

TinyTap Insights

Create groups, assign lessons, track progress

 

TinyTap is proud to launch Insights, a data management tool to leverage your favorite TinyTap lessons into quantifiable teaching resources.

Engage your students, improve grades, and save valuable time – all with this data management companion to an award-winning educational app.

 

Since its founding, TinyTap has empowered teachers to create the interactive lessons their classrooms need. It’s time to open up the hood and see real-time analytics. Which lessons did your students complete? How did they score? Are they improving over time?

 

 

When to Use Insights

  • Formative Assessments: create tests, quizzes, and lesson reviews
  • Digital Homework: assign a lesson, track who played, see how they did
  • Project-Based Learning: let students build their own portfolios of interactive presentations

 

Start Collecting Insights

1. Create a Group

Once you’re logged in, start by creating a group – for your class, family, hobby club, or any other group you want to teach.

 

 
 
2. Add members
Add group members by inviting them via email or creating unique usernames. You can also invite third parties to view your members’ performance and progress.
 

 
3. Assign lessons 
Assign your group a TinyTap lesson. Search for the lesson you want, add comments or instructions, and select a due date. 
 
 
 
4. Feed view
Your members will see the assigned lessons in their TinyTap feed and/or via email notification.
 
 
 
5. View Insights
Once your members play the assigned lesson, check “Insights” to see their data, including when they completed the lesson, how they scored, and their respective percentiles. 
 
 
6. View individual member
You can also focus on a specific group member. Click on an individual profile to see what games they have played, assign lessons individually, and check out their student portfolios.
 

 

 

Pro Tips

  • In addition to assigning your own lessons, you can assign your groups lessons created by other TinyTap creators. Peruse the collection of lessons created by TinyTap Trusted Teachers for the highest grade educational content.

 

  • Flip your classroom and let students learn by teaching! Instead of assigning them a game to play, assign them a game to create! Just prepare a brief call-to-action (for example, instead of preparing a complete lesson on sea creatures, have your students create a presentation with TinyTap). 

 

  • Refer friends and colleagues – each new user who uses your referral link to sign up awards both of you one free Insight account for a year!

 

TinyTap Get Insights

 

 

Weekly Creation Theme: Mother’s Day

Mother's Day

This week, create a TinyTap game inspired by the theme “Mother’s Day.” Your game can be about anything: an interactive greeting card for your mom; a digital coupon packet for breakfast in bed, massages, and cleaning your room; a soundboard with all the things you love and appreciate about your mom; a montage of family photos… take the theme in whatever direction suits you!

 

Pro tip: make your Mother’s Day game more personal by using your own family photos! Just import them from the device on which you’re creating.

 

Be sure to save your game publicly and write the theme #MothersDay in the game description or title so that the rest of the TinyTap community can play and get inspired by your creation!

 

The theme “Mother’s Day” is part of TinyTap’s weekly series featuring designated topics.