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Journal Prompts
Journal Prompts
Start your class with 3-5 minutes of silent writing. Do it on the first day and set up that routine for the rest of the year.
EXIT TICKETS
EXIT TICKETS
You don't need to prepare anything to use this Exit Ticket. Just assign it, and tell the kids to fill it out. Great way to take the pulse of the class.
Ask your students to create a social media post summarizing the main idea of what you've learned and upload it to Classroom. Great for the kids who have a tough time expressing themselves in words.
Students love the memes. You'll love the data. Use this if you want to formatively assess with multiple choice questions.
This takes more prep, but it can be fun. Set up a slide that has some interactive parts. Be creative! Your students will enjoy it.
EXPLORE!
EXPLORE!
Click the picture, and navigate with your touch screen. Be sure to drag around the image with a two-finger touch. See what it does.
Timelapse lets you see changes in the Earth from 1985 to current day. See the effects of urban sprawl and climate change in just a few seconds.
Google Maps
Google Maps
Use Google Maps as an engaging hook for your lessons. Next year, our students will have full access to this amazing teaching tool.
They also have some interesting educational resources that go along with Google Earth. Unfortunately, most of these are geared toward 8th grade. But it can still be a great hook to start a lesson or a unit!
Desmos and Geogebra
Desmos and Geogebra
Set up expressions, equations and inequalities for the students to manipulate! They can visualize the effects of changing parts of the expressions. This gives them a solid understanding of what each part of the expression does.
Both Desmos and Geogebra also come with a ton of activities created by other teachers. They are GREAT for hands-on experience with math.
Hyperdocs
Hyperdocs
Setting up a Hyperdocs lesson can take a little time, but it lets you switch from focusing on the lecture to focusing on the learners. It's a great way to differentiate!
As explained in this blog post, the big idea here is that you:
Set up resources like videos, Kahn Academy lessons, Desmos activities, websites with Insert Learning activities, EdPuzzles, Google Earth activities, textbook web resources, or anything else you can think of.
Include a quick formative assessment to check for understanding.
Have the students use web tools like FlipGrid, Adobe Spark, StoryboardThat, Google Slides, or any other app that enhances their creativity to let them show what they have learned (see below).
Include a reflection piece at the end.
SHOW THEIR LEARNING
SHOW THEIR LEARNING
Bored to death of PowerPoint and Google Slide presentations? Some teachers have told their students to present in anything EXCEPT PowerPoint and Slides! Let your students show you what they know in a video, a web page, a podcast, a comic strip, a 3D model, a Google Earth Tour, and/or have it narrated by a robot in the arctic.
Unless you like being bored.
Adobe spark is similar to google slides in some ways. Well, actually, almost all ways. It's less complicated and doesn't have the option of using several slides for one project. This is very easy and simple to use and I highly recommend it.
At first, this seems rather confusing to use. If you get the hang of it, though, it's rather simple to use. There's a lot of buttons but they all do what the name says. You can make comic strips and such for work or also even for fun. It's fun to use if you know what you're doing.
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