Integrate Kidspiration^® Into Your Curriculum

Created for K-5 learners, Kidspiration® uses the proven principles of visual learning to strengthen reading and writing skills, build conceptual understanding in math, and develop thinking skills across the curriculum.
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Reading & Writing
Math
Science
Social Studies

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Reading and Writing

In reading and writing, students use Kidspiration to strengthen word recognition, vocabulary and comprehension. Students express their creativity and develop critical thinking skills as they combine pictures and words to retell stories or compare literature. Students expand their ideas into written expression by switching to the integrated Writing View, and then transfer their work to a word processor to finalize their project.

More reading & writing examples:

Making Connections Web: Why I Want Amelia Bedelia to Babysit Me
Planning an Autobiography: Me at School
Inferring Character Traits Web: Analysis of Charlotte's Web
Fairy Tale Venn Diagram: Tom Tit Tot and Rumpelstiltskin
Sequencing Flowchart: Duckling’s Journey
Determining Importance Concept Map: Important Thing
Forms of Writing Web: Student Journal
Drafting and Revising Sequence: My Story Starter
Inferring Character Traits Web: Primary Character
Prewriting Web: Professor Spitfire
Sequencing Beginning, Middle and End: The Raft
Book Venn Diagram: Snow White in Germany and Italy
Phonics Graphic Organizer: Sounds and Letters
Forms of Writing Web: Story of My Life
Retelling: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Retelling: Thinking Stories
Vocabulary Development Activity: Absurd

Lesson plan samples:

Phonics: Beginning Letters
Forms of Writing: Writing My First Report
Questioning: Generating Questions
Drafting and Revising: Opening Hooks 

Math

In math, K-5 students use Kidspiration's visual math tools to build problem-solving and reasoning skills by developing a conceptual understanding of mathematical procedures. Students build number sense, spatial reasoning and understanding of the four basic operations while communicating their thinking with words, numbers and math symbols. 

More math examples:

Word Problem Graphic Organizer: Adding and Subtracting
Fraction Boxes: Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Fraction Boxes Model: Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Fraction Boxes Step-by-Step Model: Adding Unlike Denominators
Base Ten Blocks Step-by-Step Model: Adding with Regrouping
Venn Diagram: Apples and Oranges Story Problem
Fraction Boxes Model: Building Fractions
Base Ten Blocks Model: Comparing Decimals
Pattern Blocks Model: Congruent Figures
Pattern Blocks Model: Defining Symmetry
Color Tiles Model: Exploring Area
Pattern Blocks Model: Repeating Patterns and Shapes
Color Tiles Model: Fact Families for Addition and Subtraction
Fraction Tiles Model: Common Denominators
Color Tiles Model: Doubles Strategy for Addition
Fraction Tiles Model: Equivalent Fractions
Fraction Tiles Model: Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Measuring with Pictures: Standard Units of Measure
Color Tiles Model: Growing Patterns
Pattern Blocks Model: Fractions with Shapes
Color Tiles Model: Related Math Facts
Base Ten Blocks Model: Representing Two-Digit Numbers
Geometry Graphic Organizer: Shape Recognition

Lesson plan samples:

Base Ten Blocks: Exploring Place Value
Fraction Boxes: Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators 

Science

In science, students use Kidspiration to explore relationships between concepts and illustrate basic scientific processes. They organize their research and explain their findings. As students create concept maps, they develop understanding of scientific concepts and relate new information to prior knowledge.

More science examples:

Similarities and Differences Graphic Organizer: Alike and Different
Describing Habitat Graphic Organizer: Animal Habitats
Venn Diagram: Birds That Fly
Describing Characteristics Web: Animal Camouflage
Using Five Senses Concept Map: My Scene
Researching Food Webs Web: Food in the Forest
Researching Energy Web: Forms of Energy
Identifying a Life Cycle: Frogs
Observation and Prediction Tree: Salt On Those Fries
Understanding Cycles: Phases of the Moon
Predict, Preview, Confirm Sequence: Forces and Machines
Planning an Experiment Tree Diagram: Electricity in Fruit
Using Five Senses Web: Winter
Research Concept Map: Soil
Research Concept Map: Stegosaurus
Weather Observation Graphic Organizer: This Week’s Weather
Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer: Tornados
Water Changes Tree Diagram: Solid, Liquid, Gas
Research Diagram: Water Cycle

Lesson plan samples:

Observation and the Senses: Five Things
Categorizing Types of Food: Balanced Meal

Social Studies 

In social studies, K-5 students use Kidspiration to visually explore and understand history, geography, civics and economics. They make connections between historical events and explore similarities and differences among cultures, countries and eras. By switching to Writing View, students further develop their ideas and then use Kidspiration's one-click transfer to a word processor to complete a writing project. 

More social studies examples:

Study Guide: American Revolution
Taking Notes: Ancient Greece
Culture Analysis: Birthdays Around the World
Civics Graphic Organizer: Terms and Powers
Explorer Web: Christopher Columbus
Venn Diagram: Colonists and Native Americans
Chronology Research: The Constitution
Historical Figure Research: Eleanor Roosevelt
Identifying Preferences Graphic Organizer: My Favorite Season
Citizenship Web: Fire Drill Rules
Research Web: African American Inventors
Historical Figure Concept Map: Marco Polo
Retelling History Graphic Organizer: Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Research Web: Oregon State History
Research Graphic Organizer: California
Communities Graphic Organizer: My Neighborhood
Categorizing Facts Web: Pilgrims
Identifying Characteristics: Primary Character
Research Web: State or Country
Communities Web: Where I Live

Lesson plan samples:

Geography Activity: How Well Do You Know the States?
Comparing and Contrasting: Native American Tribes