Illustrate ideas in a quick sketch.
Before beginning a lesson on any topic, help students show what they already know by using iPad and Keynote to make a quick sketch from memory, such as a place, story setting, scientific process, or sequence.
Before beginning a lesson on any topic, help students show what they already know by using iPad and Keynote to make a quick sketch from memory, such as a place, story setting, scientific process, or sequence.
To activate prior knowledge, have students spend ten minutes drawing a map from memory to begin a geography lesson. Encourage them to include as many details as possible.
Label, resize, rearrange, or redraw objects as needed.
Consider using quick sketch activities in any subject area.
Have students add more details to quick sketches after learning more.
Get ready to try this activity. Learn how to draw in Keynote for iPad and learn more about sketching in Chapter 2 of the Everyone Can Create Drawing guide.
Have students apply the Line Draw animation to their sketches in Keynote and include audio of themselves describing their thought process.
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