Are you looking to integrate Seesaw into your classroom, but worried about the initial challenges of teaching your students how to use the app effectively? In this blog, I share a FREE and interactive method that turns learning the Seesaw tools into an engaging game for your students. The step-by-step approach breaks down each component of Seesaw activities into manageable chunks, making it easier for your students to grasp. Whether it’s learning to use the Seesaw tools, recording themselves, or connecting with the Seesaw Family app, I’ve got you covered! Plus, you’ll find valuable tips from my experience as a Seesaw Ambassador to enhance using Seesaw in your classroom.
The Seesaw Tools Are Just Too Much Fun!
As a teacher, you might have some hesitation about teaching your students new technology. Keeping an entire group of young students on the same page while they have a device in front of them with some fun new things to play with is a bit like herding cats.
And when we’re talking about the Seesaw app, there are some super fun things that they can do right away, so it’s hard to keep them from going rouge and experimenting with silly selfies and fun drawings. So you need to figure out a way to teach your students to use all these Seesaw tools as learning opportunities instead of playtime.
Make Teaching The Seesaw Tools Into A Game!
So why not make teaching the Seesaw tools into a game? It’s a great way to help your students pause before getting too carried away. I did this in my classroom for years with great success. And when I was in the teacher’s lounge, sharing how much fun my students were having with Seesaw, I got the question HOW quite often.
It occurred to me that this would be something other teachers would love without the hassle of creating it themselves, so I started taking notes on what I did to teach my students how to use the Seesaw tools. The more I wrote certain tasks down, the more it looked just like a scavenger hunt.
About The Seesaw Scavenger Hunt
This is a resource that I’m extremely proud to share. Ideally, you’d like your students to know how to use more than one of the Seesaw tools for a single lesson. But you need to teach each one individually. So I’ve broken each of the Seesaw tools down into digestible bits for you and your students. Each part takes only a few minutes. This way, you aren’t overwhelming your kiddos. And let’s face it, you don’t have TONS of time at the beginning of the school year. It’s easier to find a few small chunks of time to teach the Seesaw tools rather than try to find hours to teach the whole thing!
Included in the Seesaw Scavenger Hunt, you’ll find instructions to effectively teach your students how to personalize their account with an animal avatar, how to take both forward facing pictures as well as selfies. They’ll learn how to add text to a project along with the really fun drawing tools. Then, there’s the recordings. They will learn how to be concise with both the audio and video recordings they can add to their Seesaw project.
Seesaw Tips For Teachers Too!
The Seesaw Scavenger Hunt also helps you as the teacher, It’ll teach you how to add each of your student’s families to their Seesaw family account so parents can see what their children are doing in your classroom. I’ll also give you great Seesaw tips along the way for ideas on how to use Seesaw for your lessons.
Get It Here
Download the FREE Seesaw Scavenger Hunt here, and get that confidence to teach your students the Seesaw tools. Using this method means that your students will correctly and properly use the Seesaw app right away, so less digital headaches for you!
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