**If you are unfamiliar with this project, check out my first post introducing my pilot project with LearnPads and comparing them to iPads. My first graders are spending this week learning about compound words. We began by watching the Compound Word Boogie. After this short video and gaining a better understanding of combining two words together to make one, we moved onto collaboratively practicing compound words. To summarize this activity, we used QR codes to practice building compound words. Students would scan a QR code. Upon scanning, a word would be revealed. After having the word displayed on their tablet, they had to search around the room for other classmates that had the other parts to their compound words. For example, if student one had rain, student two had coat and student three had raincoat, they had to find each other to build their compound word. Check out some of the steps below for this process. QR Codes I began by creating a new blog post for each of the words as well as their compound word. You can see the sample above. After creating a post for each word, I then took that URL and created a QR Code using QR Code Generator. These QR Codes were then saved into a Google Doc for future reference. See examples below for turning URL into QR Code and saving to Google Doc. Building Compound Words After I had created a QR code for all the words that I wanted to use, I then printed them out and gave one to each student. Students scanned their QR Code to reveal their word. When everyone had a picture on their LearnPad, I said, "Go!" and the collaboration began to build compound words. Once everyone had found their group, we read through them as a class. Students returned to their seats, passed their QR Code to their neighbor and the process was repeated again. While we did this activity on the LearnPad, the same thing could be done on the iPad as well. For the iPad, we would have used the app called Qrafter to scan the codes. Regardless of using the LearnPad or iPad, both devices would allow you to complete this activity the exact same. With this being said, I would give a tie to building compound words on the LearnPad and iPad. Check out the video below to see our activity in action Share This:
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Delores
6/5/2017 08:53:53 am
I have a question here. Would you classify "ipad" as a compound word?
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