iPads at Horace Mitchell School: ABC Tracer

ABC Tracer

ABC Tracer is a comprehensive ABC learning app.

Principles of learning:

1) Kids learn by observing

2) Kids learn better with appropriate feedback

3) Kids learn best if the material they have learned is reinforced using different fun activities

ABC Tracer:

1) Animates and shows how to write the letters with strokes in the right order on the traditional red-blue guidelines.

2) Provides fun feedback of right and wrong strokes.

3) Has a lot of re-enforcing fun activities

- Touching the image below the alphabet animates it

- Pop the 26 alphabets arranged randomly, in alphabetical order.

- Fun paint activity with tracing on corresponding spellings

- ABC Song with animated alphabets

- Find the picture that starts with a given letter

- Also includes numbers and words

Features:

1) Capital Alphabets

2) Small Alphabets

3) Numbers

4) WORD Tracing!

5) ABC Song

6) Pop the balloons in alphabetical order

7) Find picture that starts with a given letter

LESSON IDEAS:

iPad Instructions

Assign the same iPad# to the same student each time
Make sure the students hands are clean
Carry the iPads with 2 hands
No food or liquids on the tables
When you are done with your lesson, have the students return the iPad to the "home" screen by pressing the home button.
Have students "close" each app they used by pressing the "home" button twice, then swipe the apps up!
Have students wipe the screens clean with the microfiber cloths after using them
Make sure the iPad rubber cover is on nice and snug
Put the iPads back in the corresponding number slots in the cart
Have the iPads screen face the left side of the cart
Plug in the power charger cord for each iPad

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