Get a Head Start on Back to School
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Engaging Early Learners with iPad
🌱 Engaging Early Learners with iPad You’ve just been handed some brand spanking new iPads and excitement levels (and maybe some apprehension) are sky high. It can be really tempting to discover all …
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Scavenger Hunt Keynote
For our back to school professional development, our principal planned a scavenger hunt around our school, but it also incorporated learning how to use Keynote! Each slide has a place that we needed …
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Welcoming New Teachers
I don't know about you but I 💗 new teacher orientation day! It is so exciting to welcome new teachers to and share all the things that make your district amazing! As part of our Instructional Techn…
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Build Classroom Community with Back to School Bingo!
Back-to-school bingo is an excellent way to build community in a classroom. It fosters a sense of connection and belonging among students by encouraging them to share personal information and discove…
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Grab and Go Syllabus Template
This free, downloadable template offers a structured framework to help you create a professional and organized syllabus.By customizing this template with your specific course details, you can streaml…
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Fun and Engaging Trivia Game for Back to School
Break free from the traditional "sit and get" first day of school routine with this fun, free downloadable activity! Let's face it, the classic teacher introduction can be a snooze fest for both you…
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Boost Engagement and Community with a Customizable Jeopardy Game!
Tired of the mundane review session? Ready to inject some excitement into your classroom? Look no further than a DIY Jeopardy game crafted in Keynote. This versatile tool allows educators to create e…
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Digital Planner in Numbers for 2024-25
Organize your daily and curricular planning with this Numbers planner. This planner is fully customizable to suit your needs. I have posted this before and have been using it for 5 years. It is a g…
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Hats Off to a New School Year - trucker hat keynote template back to school
This keynote resource can be a great back to school project to introduce keynote tools to students as well as allow teachers to get to know students better. Students can share their creativity throu…
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Back to School PD - Improving Campus Environment
A Challenge Based Learning Approach to Back to School Professional Learning Back to school professional learning can inspire and encourage teachers to start the year off on a positive note. Having te…
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Get to Know Your Students - An SEL Activity
This customizable template for iPad or Mac will help you start the school year on the right foot by getting to know your students. Students will use their voice to share information about themselves …
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Build Culture and Community with Back to School K-12 Education Activity
Use this activity with the help of Everyone Can Create Photos to set a tone for the culture of your building and/or classroom. This activity can be used with teaching staff and learners using Create…
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Swift Playgrounds: The Perfect Coding Tool for Back-to-School Community Building
Are you looking for a back-to-school community building activity or icebreaker to help you and your students get to know each other? Try something new and use the About Me app playground template in …
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Go on a Color Scavenger Hunt: A FREE Interactive Workbook for Back-to-School with Early Learners
Back to school season is upon us, and as an art teacher working with kindergarten and first-grade students, I wanted to spice up our lessons with something exciting and hands-on. That's how this FREE…
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Trading Cards to Build Relationships.
Start your year with creativity. Using Keynote, students will create an “About Me” Trading Card. Back to school means learning about a new set of students and/or reconnecting to others. What better …
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Identity collage for back to school
Although I did not attend my fellow ADE’s creativity sessions during the Canadian ADE Academy, I was still inspired by what I heard about their sessions. They gracefully shared with me what they wer…
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Data Collection Playlist: Work With Music
Sometimes you need an upbeat timer to keep kids moving along during data collection. As my 6th grade students will be collecting data on plant growth this year, I thought a 10 minute playlist could h…
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Back to School: Using Data to Tell Stories
Introduction As the new school year begins, it's the perfect opportunity to introduce students to data visualization using Keynote tools. By collecting data from students, we can make learning both p…
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From Relaxation to Innovation: How do you prepare for the upcoming school year over the summer?
With summer upon us, many of us will be taking some well-deserved time to relax and recharge. If you are like me though, summer is also your time to reflect on the last year and make plans for the up…
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Magazine Cover Template - Back to School
I have seen a few of these fabulous magazine cover templates floating around over the years, but none that quite hit my love for bright colours and layout - so I decided to pull together my own versi…
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Building Educators Capacity - Back to School Series
Building Educators' Capacity I am fortunate to be in a position that allows me to visit and observe numerous schools, teachers, and learners in my role. I thoroughly enjoy acquiring new knowledge and…
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Back to School: Create a class “All About Us” eBook
We all know how important it is for students to not just be seen and heard, but for them to feel connected. Here’s a fun and simple way to have your students to share their interests, passions and id…
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Preparing Learners Back to School
The beginning of any term is always a shift for learners. ( With the phrase learners I am referring to teachers, parents and students). Between planning and preparing for learning, there can be a wid…
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Back to School - Preparing Students with Future Skills
Getting started making your App is easier than you think. Using Swift Playgrounds on Mac is a great place to start! It's a really easy, fun and engaging way to get students creating their own real Ap…
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New School Routines
The pandemic certainly brought many challenges for us in education but one of the hardest as a new librarian was how do I share new routines with learners and families. Being a bigger school of 1000 …
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Back to School - 1st Day Ideas
I love the first day of school, the excitement and newness of it all is my favorite.The first week of school, our campus focuses on relationships. I want students to feel welcomed and excited about m…
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Back to School Quick Tips Guide
Simplify your Mac and iPad experience with this user-friendly calendar! Essential tips are broken down into easy-to-digest daily lessons, each complemented by a short instructional video. On eac…
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Getting Creative in the Classroom - Back to School Series
The Back to School Series for 2023 is upon us 🙌🏻🙌🏻 I was so excited to be asked to take part in this program for 2023, especially alongside the uber-talented Mandy Dempsey, Chantelle Sansness and…
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Back to School Science Lab - Measurement, Observations
Leah LaCrosse and I developed this investigation that includes a citizen science collaborative effort to compare bugs in various areas of the world. We used cicadas but any bug could be used for this…
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Back to School Quick Tips Calendar
This calendar is created for the month of September 2023 as Canada heads back to school. It is broken into three separate calendars. The first is tricks for iPad, the second is accessibility and the …
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All About Me - Back to School
Making getting to know your learners and settling back into school easy! Here is an interactive Pages resource for all teachers to share or teach to within their classrooms. This 'All About Me' templ…
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Welcome Back to School!
Welcome to the Class of 2022 Starting a new school year generally means we need to start new relationships. To fast-track the getting-to-know-you period, I give my students the following resource (at…
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Back to School Project- “Tour of My Brain” using Keynote
One of our favorite Keynote projects to start the school year is to create a visual “Tour of My Brain.” This project can be done either on an iPad or a Mac Computer. It is an engaging “get to know yo…
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'Back to School' Digital Journal
The ‘Back to School’ resource is a digital journal (created in Pages) which encourages students to use their device creatively by completing scaffolded challenges based in photography, video, audio a…
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Back to school history lesson starters with iMovie’s Magic Movie
The beginning of school is a busy time so I appreciate quick and easy ways to hook students on curricular topics. One engaging way to create interest without taking up a lot of prep time to introduce…
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Back to School Keynote Welcome Project
In my school, students have their first true experience learning with iPads when they enter my room in eighth grade science. I’m the only full iPad classroom in the district, and students will be usi…
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Get to Know You Choice Board
When we came back to school in September 2021, many teachers were tasked with getting to know their new students remotely. Rather than circling up face-to-face as we’d always done before, I knew I ne…
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Introduce yourself... via an app!
Introducing to your new students (if you're a teacher) or introducing yourself to your classmates (if you're a student) can be a challenging opportuinity that takes place at the start of every school…
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Apple Professional Learning Live: Back to School 2025 for Australia and New Zealand
Apple Professional Learning Live offers free online sessions designed for educators, leaders and IT professionals. You’ll explore ways of using Apple technology to advance learning in your school or …
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Kennismakingsactiviteit: Museum over mezelf
Met deze kennismakingsactiviteit bij de start van het schooljaar, stellen leerlingen zichzelf voor aan de hand van een 5-tal voorwerpen die belangrijk zijn voor hen. Vooraf Laat de leerlingen nadenke…
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STEAM Name Station Activities for Little Learners
Use the name themed activities included in this post to introduce early learners to STEAM disciplines, while practicing name recognition and formation, classroom routines, as well as fine motor and s…
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Fun Facts All About Me Activity
Objective: Teach Students how to create a Links Only Keynote Presentation for iPad. Also known as Non-Linear Presentation. There is also a Demo Keynote file that you can download to check out for …
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Moments of Mindfulness for the K-12 Classroom: Student Focused Activities
Moments of Mindfulness In the fast-paced, test driven environment of today’s classrooms, mindfulness is becoming increasingly important. Not only does it help students (and teachers too) stay focuse…
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Comprehensive Classroom Data Tracker: Student and Class Analytics
Download this easy to use digital data tracker to monitor your students’ progress throughout the year.Keeping track of student data and progress can be overwhelming with countless papers, documents, …
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Scavenger Hunt Keynote
For our back to school professional development, our principal planned a scavenger hunt around our school, but it also incorporated learning how to use Keynote! Each slide has a place that we needed …
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Grab and Go Syllabus Template
This free, downloadable template offers a structured framework to help you create a professional and organized syllabus.By customizing this template with your specific course details, you can streaml…
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Fun and Engaging Trivia Game for Back to School
Break free from the traditional "sit and get" first day of school routine with this fun, free downloadable activity! Let's face it, the classic teacher introduction can be a snooze fest for both you…
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Boost Engagement and Community with a Customizable Jeopardy Game!
Tired of the mundane review session? Ready to inject some excitement into your classroom? Look no further than a DIY Jeopardy game crafted in Keynote. This versatile tool allows educators to create e…
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Build Classroom Community with Back to School Bingo!
Back-to-school bingo is an excellent way to build community in a classroom. It fosters a sense of connection and belonging among students by encouraging them to share personal information and discove…
