Kidspiration For Grades

K-6

Meredith MartinMantua Township Schools

mmartin@mantuaschools.comhttp://www.techforteachers.com

What is Kidspiration?

• Cross Curricular• Multi Grade Level• Expandable• Customizable

Getting Started With Kidspiration

• The Starter Screen– Using Pre-Made

Activities– Picture View– Writing View

Using the Activities

• Kidspiration comes with a variety of pre-made activities in several different subject areas.

• You can add templates to the Activities area by downloading pre-made templates from the web or by creating your own.

Picture View

• Create story maps, flow charts, and outlines

• Use SuperGroupers to create Venn Diagrams and other sorting activities

• Add pictures from the Library, or import graphics saved on your hard drive

• Add text boxes

Super Groupers

• Use to create sorting and categorizing activities

• Venn Diagrams• Create you own!

Writing View

• Create outlines• Linked to picture view• Publish to Word or

Appleworks to edit and create final story or outline

Switching Between Views

• Create a flow chart or story map in Picture view

• Switch to Writing view to create an outline based on the picture

• Expand picture activities in the Writing view

Exporting Work

• Export as picture file– Can then be imported into

Word or other program

• Export as HTML– Create student portfolio

online

Create Your Own Templates

• You can create custom templates easily in Kidspiration

• Use the Teacher Menu to access the Activity Wizard

• Customize your activity settings

• Save in the Kidspiration Activity categories

Downloading Templates

• There are hundreds of pre-made Kidspiration templates available on the web

• http://www.techfor teachers.com – go to the Kidspiration link on the side

• Google – search for Kidspiration templates