One of the second grade teachers I work used the iLearn Continents app with her students today.  She put them in partners and had each play on “Game” mode, since that mode both keeps track of number correct and incorrect as well as times them.  As each finished his or her initial round, we recorded their number correct and incorrect.  They then competed for best time.  The class “high score” for time was 45.  While I collected the ipads, she hooked her ipad to the projector and opened Doodle Buddy.  The class helped her construct a picture graph number of students who scored which number incorrect.  Although the key did not fit on the screen, students helped her decide that each Earth symbol would represent 2 students since ten students had perfect scores.  The teacher used the eraser tool to erase half of an Earth when the number of students for a particular category was odd.

She finished with some analytical questions.  She asked which category had the most students.  She asked which had the least.  We could also have figured out how many students were in the class, then checked it by counting students in the room.  This lesson reviewed continents and ocean labeling as well as graphing.