Inspired by Popular Real World Platforms
Give a Classroom Twist to the Platforms Students Love
Bring a new level of engagement to lessons by having students complete activities inspired by real world magazines, social media, and shopping sites with these templates.
Amazon Listings
Students use the familiar Amazon format to share what they have learned. For lesson ideas on how to use these templates, visit Ditch that Textbook's overview.
Facebook
Use these social media templates so students can show what they know about a topic.
Instagram Template
This instagram template provides an engaging way for students to tell, summarize, or explain stories in an engaging format that they are familiar with. For ideas on using this template, click here and here.
Students create fake job applications for characters in a book, historical figures or for themselves.
Students create a Pinterest looking board in Google Slides to convey information about a concept.
Students create their own magazine complete with table of contents, articles, and images.
Students take a deep dive into a concept, book or literary character by creating a Netflix or Disney+ inspired slide deck. For ideas on using these templates, click here.
Students curate a list of music to convey a theme, or their feelings about a particular topic.
Students create their own magazine complete with table of contents, articles, and images.
Twitter
Students compose tweets as a character in a story, reflecting on the day's learning, the main idea, current events, etc.
Students can review the location that is being studies, services of a character, or even leave a review AS a character. From Ditch that Textbook.
Teachers and students can use Google Slides to create YouTube like playlists to teach content to others.
Student complete a magazine article for someone who they think should be the person of the year.
Students design a costume for themselves, a book character, or famous person in history. They design the look and list items the costume includes as symbolism.
In Wixie, students complete a music playlist for a book character, historical figure, or themselves!
Students use this template to record a video and description, as well as fill in comments, just like on YouTube!
Students use Adobe Express to create a social media post for a fictional character.