Literacyhead's submission to No Right Brain Left Behind

1. A versatile suite of tablet
applications designed to help
students of all ages creatively
process new learning.
Creative Apps + Creative Teachers = Creative Students
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2. Featured App
Sample
Teachers or students “deal” 1-4 cards with Teacher: Open artnalogy and deal yourself 4 cards.
visuals representing common objects. How is photosynthesis like one of these objects?
Make a comparison to content area
Student: Well, the basketball has a barrier like a cell
understanding using one of the images. membrane. Material passes in and out of a cell and
air goes in and out of a basketball.

3. Sample
Teacher: Deal 3 cards. Pick one image to
compare to the branches of government.
Student: The parts of a bike are like
the three branches of government. The
pedals provide power to the bike. They
are like the executive branch which
makes sure that laws are carried out.
The handle bars steer the bike. They are
like the legislative branch which makes
the laws to guide the country.
The brakes stop the bike. They are like
the Judicial Branch because they provide
checks that make sure laws are created &
executed in line with the Constitution.
Images used with permission:
Kevin Bierbaum The Missing
Melissa A. Robinson Feather
Jeff Mahorney Honey Jar

4. Featured App
Students and teachers access a gallery of Sample
visual art for connecting to writing and Teacher: Locate images that represent a
reading. Teachers ask students to write horror story and a mystery. Compare and
stories about images or to locate images contrast the similarities and differences
between the images you select.
that connect to themes or genre.

5. Sample
Teacher: Pick an image that could illustrate
a narrative or non-fiction piece. Discuss
the differences in the two genres and how
the image might illustrate each of them.
Images used with permission:
randyky Street Market
Narin Village Bakers
Naomi Lees-Maiberg Cookie Monster
Gina Hief The Lonely Girl by the Window

6. Featured App
CITY | HOUSE | ROOM
Students design rooms, houses, or cities to Sample
represent their understanding of content. Teacher: Build a house with a room
For each of the building modes, students representing each character from To Kill
A Mockingbird. When finished, record and
activate a digital recording function and
send explanations for your design.
must explain their thinking.

7. Sample
Teacher: Build a room with a piece of
furniture to represent each part of the
circulatory system. When finished, record
and send your explanations for your design.
Image used with permission:
Melissa Bryant Group Therapy

8. Featured App
Students and teachers access a gallery of Sample
visual art for connections to mathematical Teacher: Locate images that demonstrate
concepts and applications. symmetry and asymmetry.

9. Sample
Teacher: Find an image that shows more
than three acute angles and more than
three acute angles. How many of each
are in the image you found?
Image used with permission:
Brooke Appler Bike Web

10. Featured App
A take on the 1980’s PSA, this app offers Sample
students a way to anonymously register Teacher: Rate your level of understanding
with teachers their levels of understanding. of yesterday's lesson.

11. Sample
Levels of Understanding
Scrambled: Confused
Over Easy: Understand Somewhat
Over Medium: Understand Pretty Well
Hard Boiled: Thoroughly Understand
Benedict/McMuffined: Making Connections

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Developed by Literacyhead for 2011
No Right Brain Left Behind Challenge
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