Weekly App Practical- Boardmaker

I'll admit that at first I wasn't sure that I would find a good use for the Boardmaker software in my 9th grade biology classroom but Boardmaker Online proved me wrong! I created the labeling activity shown below for my students who are currently practicing labeling the parts of the cell. It took less than 30 minutes to make and was quite a bit of fun!

If you have a boardmaker account, you can actually log in and play the activity by following this link. If not, you can get the idea by viewing the screenshots below:

This first photo shows the editing mode where I created the activity from a labeling template.

This is the screen that is available to the public when searching for the activity on Boardmaker or using the URL.

Students will move the labels from the left-hand side of the screen to the appropriate boxes on the image. When they have completed the labeling, an arrow appears at the bottom of the screen allowing them to move onto the next page of the activity. 

Once the student has finished the activity, the move on to a screen that tells them they are completed and allows them to exit the screen. 

Though I will certainly use this labeling activity with my students, I don't intend to buy the software. I plan to print out the activity pages and give it to my students on paper because I don't want to get them started on something that will only last a 30 day trial. Still, I'm glad I took the time to play around with Boardmaker!