Lesson Plans
We’ve provided a collection of educator-created lesson plans for you to use as idea starters for using iPod in your classroom. These wonderful examples come from educators like you, who are using iPod to enhance their curricula and student performance.
Learning Math with Music
Students create songs for families of math facts and then record their song onto an iPod using a voice recorder.
Grade level: Primary and Elementary
Subject: Math
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Listening to Letter Sounds
The teacher records a lesson onto an iPod using a voice recorder. Students follow the lesson and use an iPod to practice recording and listening to letter sounds.
Grade level: Primary and Elementary Remedial Education
Subject: Reading and ESL/ELL
An Audio Travel Album
Students learn about a different country by interviewing a recent traveler. They record the interview with an iPod and voice recorder and then create a digital travel album.
Grade level: Elementary and Middle School
Subject: Language Arts, Social Studies and Foreign Language
Newcomers Learn Local History
English Language Learners create a presentation about their community and use an iPod and a voice recorder to record it in both English and their native language to share at a family night event.
Grade level: Middle School
Subject: Language Arts, Social Studies and ESL/ELL
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iPod Audio Tours
Students use an iPod and voice recorder to create an audio tour from a trip to the zoo. They add original music created in GarageBand and save their project onto iPods for use by zoo visitors.
Grade level: Middle School
Subject: Language Arts and Science
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Digital Field Trip Report
On a field trip, students use an iPod with a voice recorder to take notes and a digital camera to take photos. They then create a guided tour in iMovie.
Grade level: Middle and High School
Subject: Any subject area
Oral Histories
With an iPod and a voice recorder, students interview relatives about their life histories and then combine the audio interview with family photos in an iMovie project.
Grade level: Middle and High School
Subject: Social Studies and Language Arts
Radio Show
Students write a radio drama based on a historical event and record their show (complete with commercials) using an iPod and a voice recorder.
Grade level: Middle and High School
Subject: Language Arts, Social Studies and Performing Arts
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Learning World Languages
Student pairs use an iPod and a voice recorder to record a conversation in the language they are studying.
Grade level: Middle and High School
Subject: Foreign Language
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Digital Science Experiments
Students listen to instructions prerecorded by their teacher on an iPod. They then record their science experiment using a digital camera and an iPod with a voice recorder and create an iMovie project.
Grade level: Middle and High School
Subject: Science
iPod Reporters
Students use an iPod and a voice recorder to interview sources for articles for a class newspaper.
Grade level: All
Subject: Language Arts and Journalism
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Speech and Language Samples
Using an iPod and a voice recorder, the teacher records each student telling a story and then saves the recordings in iTunes for assessment purposes.
Grade level: All
Subject: Speech and Language, Special Education and ESL/ELL
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