Popplet

Popplet is a valuable app for making graphic organizers.  It is especially great for making webs or flowcharts.  Students have used it to make webs about types of sentences, character traits, and many other things at our school.

To use Popplet you tap in the screen to make a "popple".  You can use text to type or even insert a picture.  Then, you touch the small circles next to your popple to make a connection line to a new popple.  (The popples are bubbles that contain the words or pictures you are using.)  Then you insert your words or picture into the new popple and repeat the process as needed.

Ideas for use at home:

• Have your child make a web about a character in his or her favorite book.
• Use popplet to show the sequence of events in a story or process.
• Create a web to brainstorm ideas for writing.
• After completing a multi-step math problem, your child can create a popplet showing the steps he or she used to solve the problem.
• Use popplet to organize notes about a project.

Popplet is available in the iTunes store for $4.99, but at school we use Popplet Lite which is free and works just as well for our purposes.  Popplet is not currently available in Google Play, but it is available on the web.  Visit popplet.com for more details or click the logo above.

Have ideas for how to use popplet?  We would love to share them.  Leave us a message in the comments below!