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When

  • Lesson Activity

Enterprise Skills

  • Creativity & Innovation
  • Problem Solving

Who

  • Upper Primary (Year 4-6)
  • Lower Secondary (Year 7-9)
  • Senior Secondary (Year 10-12)

Time

  • 30-40 minutes

Resources

This classroom activity has students ideate creative or new apps and think about the UX (User Experience) using a storyboard format.

  1. Watch the “Apps to make your life easier” video and use this as a provocation for the next part of the activity.
  2. Set a 5 minute timer for students to ideate based on the following the problem: “How might we make our lives easier through a phone app?”
  3. Have students select one of their ideas and get them to use the Storyboard Template (PDF) to map out the user experience if they were to bring their app to life.
DISCUSSION

Which apps make teaching (or life) easier for you?

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