Integrate Visual Learning with Kidspiration® 3 into your Curriculum

 
 


Overviews
Kidspiration Quick Tour Interactive Whiteboard Support

This Quick Tour multimedia presentation illustrates the key features of Kidspiration. See how students express their creativity and develop their thinking skills with pictures, words and numbers.
 
Quick Tour system requirements
 






How to Use
Picture View Writing View Math View

Atomic Learning offers several additional tutorials to help educators and students learn to use Kidspiration quickly and successfully. PC users and Mac users, visit Atomic learning to find out more.





On-demand Webinars
Keep Your Students Learning Till the Final Bell with Kidspiration 3
Keep your K-5 grade students learning right up until that final bell with a hassle-free end of the year project. Get tips on how to keep your students engaged and celebrate a successful school year while they plan, write and publish a yearbook.

 

Teaching STEM and 21st Century Skills with Kidspiration®
Students in the first grade this year will graduate in the year 2020. Will they have the skills necessary for success in the 21st Century? According to the State Educational Technology Directors Association's (SETDA) recently released Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education, early exposure to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) is critical to success in the 21st century and should be integrated throughout the curriculum for all children starting in kindergarten.

 

Learn to Use Kidspiration®'s Visual Math Tools
Kidspiration 3 has five visual math tools to help K-5 students build their conceptual understanding in math.

 

Writing to a Prompt with Kidspiration® 3
Graphic organizers are an effective tool to support students as they learn how to write to a prompt. Learn how your students can learn to write on demand using Kidspiration.

 

Individualizing Early Literacy Instruction with Kidspiration®
Learn how Kidspiration supports the teaching and learning of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development and reading comprehension, all components of effective reading instruction.

 

Making Sense of Fractions with New Math Tools in Kidspiration
Use fraction tiles, pattern blocks, color tiles, base ten blocks and fraction boxes to develop conceptual understanding of fractions. Represent and compare fractions; add and subtract with like and unlike denominators; and work with mixed numbers, improper and equivalent fractions.

 

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Curriculum Applications
Beginning Sounds Using Pictures to Write a Story Listening Comprehension Exploring Equivalent Fractions Addition with Regrouping Categorizing Information Common Denominators Comparing People and Places Subtraction with Regrouping Counting with Tiles Early Reading Comprehension Growing Vocabulary in Writing Making Decisions Similarities and Differences Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators Multiplication with Base Ten Blocks How Do You Use Energy? Modeling Fractions Pattern Block Fractions Activities for Cinco de Mayo Activities for Earth Day A Celebration of St. Patrick's Day Across the Curriculum Read Across America with Dr. Seuss Teaching Word Choice Read for the Record with Corduroy A Poem in Your Pocket Research on Climate Change Area Models for Multiplication Modeling Division Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions

These videos showcase Kidspiration at work in the classroom in several content areas, giving you some great ideas for integrating visual learning throughout your lesson plans and curriculum.





 

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Textbook Connections: Many leading education textbook publishers have chosen graphic organizers as a core strategy to improve learning outcomes. They use graphic organizers within textbooks to present new information and concepts, and they give recommendations on how to use graphic organizers with student activities in their teacher guides and classroom materials. Access these resources here.

 

Visit the Inspired Learning CommunityTM for curriculum integration ideas created by educators.

 

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