Kidspiration is a software program that offers a visual way for elementary school students to explore and understand words, numbers, and concepts.
This program is a content exploration tool, more specifically a open-ended tool. Kidspiration provides opportunities for students to interact with the content and solve problems. This tool can be manipulated to accomodate carious content areas. In the picture above, an example of how to sort parts of speech is displayed. The students are given various vocabulary words, and then they are to sort them into the types of speech each word is. Following that, they are to write sentences using the words. The tool offers a great amount of educational value since the students are able to interact in a fun way with the subject area, in this case, language arts. Then, the subject area is reinforced by having to apply what they just did by writing out sentences.
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