TOOL #1 - GIMKIT

Gimkit is a quiz application that allows students to practice any skill that they have learned in class, while allowing them to also compete one on one, in team settings, or against the clock as a group.
In my class, I use Gimkit in several different ways. When practicing multiplication and division fluency, students have to beat the clock in a game of the floor is lava. Each class competes against the other to answer their facts correctly and quickly in order to increase the number of blocks and outpace the lava that increases in speed the more time passes. I also use the Jeopardy function to all students to pick categories to review word problems based on the standard that they are currently working. There are around 15 to 20 different kinds of games that can be played, including a spin on the popular Among Us video game.
Gimkit allows teachers to make their own quizzes or choose from a vast library of premade quizzes that can used to fit our needs.
My students particularly love the Floor is Lava and have made it a competition between classes to see who can get the best time.

Tool #2 Ed Puzzle

Ed Puzzle is a video application that allows you to take a video from another website and create questions for students to answer as they complete the video.
You can use Ed Puzzle as an activator, part of the work section, or even as a summarizer to check for understanding.
You will need to set up the answer sheet, but Ed Puzzle will also grade the assignment for so that there is no need for the teacher to go back through the assignment to grade, unless they wish to set it up that way.
Ed Puzzle is also allows teacher to provide immediate feedback to students after each answer

Tool #3 Blooket

Blooket is another quiz application that allows students to practice.
It has several different games, that students can play to practice fluency, review content, accelerate, or remediate.
The Cyber Hack game is particularly popular among my students as they are trying to figure out each others game code in order to sabotage them and increase there status. In order to do that, the must correctly answer the questions.
Blooket give immediate feedback, allowing students to see incorrect answers as they progress through the game.

Flocabulary allows students to practice using proper terminology for any content.
Flocabulary also provides great instructional videos that help explain the content.
It allows them to play unique games that help them understand the vocabulary of the content.
It also allows them to quiz over the content that they just learned.
I have used Flocabulary as an introduction into a unit to help students learn and practice using the vocabulary.

Nearpod is a unique site that allows students to interact from there chromebooks directly with the presentation on the screen.
Nearpod allows for teachers to create presentations, quizzes, poles, and many other kinds of interactive assessments. It also provides Immediate data on problem that the students just completed.
Assessments can be presented to the class in person or assigned to them to work directly from their home computer or chromebook.
Nearpod has a huge library of premade content as well, so teachers don't have to recreate resources.
In my class, I have used Nearpod to allow students a more interactive way to participate in content and I have used Nearpod's data collection to get an immediate feel on if my class is understanding a concept or not.

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