Digital Formative Assessment in Mrs Wallace's Year 6 Science Class

The Year 6's in Mrs Wallace's Science class used their iPad devices to demonstrate their understanding of the concept of Animal Migration using a padlet board.
Teachers
To create a Padlet collaboration board first create an account at Padlet.com. Then create a padlet board on the topic of your choice (it is recommended to use the Grid format initially). Under the share tab either print or display the QR code to allow anyone on an iPad device to access your padlet board. When students gain access to your padlet board ensure that as a protocol of using the board they write their name where it says 'Title'. Otherwise the teacher will delete it.
After the task has been completed on the board it will always be able to be located the dashboard using your password. Further, it can be saved as either a PDF, image, link or emailed to others.
Students
Direct students to open the Padlet app. Then proceed as a guest. A prompt to scan QR code will appear. Then they can either scan the printed QR code or come to the projector screen and scan the QR code you have displayed. They will now be able to make contributions to the board as the teacher monitors. If the connection drops out, simply re-scan the QR code.

A formative task Padlet board saved as a PDF

Research with Mr Hort's Year 6's

The Year 6's in Mr Hort's class have been working on a project for HaSS about the contribution of individuals and groups to Australian society.
The students used the Book Creator app, which they had used before, to organise their research of an individual or group of their choice.
It was great to see all of the class using Advanced Google search to do their research.
Here are some samples of their research in progress.

Character Development in Mrs Hooker's Year 5 Class

As part of their work on developing characters for story genres the Year 5's in Mrs Hooker's class were shown how to use their book work to create a character in Puppet Pals HD app. The students drew an image of how their character may look; took a photo of this using the Camera app on the iPads; then they cut an outline of their character to place in the character selection board of the app. The final step will be to create a relevant background (referred to as backdrop in the app) for their story to then be able to create it as a short video.

Synthesizing Research about Adaptations in Mrs Capelli's and Mrs Brown's Year 4 Classes

The year 4's have been working hard to research how animal adaptations relate to the characteristics of the environment or Biome where they live.

They created stories using animals they had researched as characters and biomes they had researched as backdrops to allow the characters to explain the reasons why/why not they chose to live in a certain biome.

Kenny the Koala explaining how he would definitely not want to live in the desert.

Here Kenny is explaining how this temperate rain forest biome is more suited to him but not perfect.  

Creating Characters and Settings in Context in Mrs Adam's Year 5 Class

Following from the activities and lessons about self esteem the students were tasked with independently creating characters and settings for a story about someone with low self esteem getting help. Students created these in various ways ranging from drawings to images sourced via a Google Advanced Search.

The students created their story narratives using the Puppet Pals HD app.

Many students drew characters for their story-line.

Using the camera app. to take a picture of a drawn character and import it into the Puppet Pals HD app.