Here is a drag and drop activity on which students assemble a Spanish Mission and label all of the parts. It could be kicked up a notch by having students add additional slides that explain the purpose and significance of each part of the mission.
This is a Google Slides activity designed to be assigned in Google Classroom. In this activity students will write a poem about fall and use the shapes tool to turn their pumpkin into a digital Jack-o-lantern.
Thanks to Mrs. Woodard for finding this trick to actually see the results to your Google Form in google Classroom.
Mrs. Schroeder won the drawing of all the teachers who completed their Innovation Badge chart last year. She was awarded with a $200 gift card to Teacher Tools in McKinney.
January 14, 2020|Beautify, Blended Learning, EdTech, ELAR, Elementary, ELL, Kinder, Math, Review, Science, Secondary, Social Studies, SPED, Tools, Youtube
https://www.classhook.com/how_it_works
Classhook allows you to search for video clips from popular TV shows and movies that are educational and relevant to your topic. There are filters to narrow down your search based on grade level and clip length.
This looks like a great resource to find relevant and engaging video clips to enhance your lessons.
I searched for Solar System and found short clips from TV shows like National Geographic,Ready Jet Go!(PBS Kids), Ice Age, Bill Nye, Animaniacs, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Magic School Bus, and Beakman’s World.
I searched Characters for ELA and got results that included clips from Pay it Forward, Matilda, Despicable Me, The Big bang Theory, The Breakfast Club, etc.
For Fractions I found results from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Maths Mansion, Cyber Chase, etc.
For The Industrial Revolution I founds clips from America The Story of Us, Newsies, Seabiscuit, The Prestige, The Simpsons, The Great Gatsby, Titanic, and Gangs of New York.
You can get access to all the clips with a free account.
December 2, 2019|Alwayslearning, Assessment, EdTech, ELAR, Elementary, Math, Review, Science, Secondary, Social Studies, SPED, Tools
Plickers is a great way to use technology to gather data and check for understanding. Your students do not need to have a device. They will get a card that they will hold up to answer multiple choice answers. Every students card is different to they can’t be influenced or copy each others answers. Check out the videos below to learn more about Plickers. If you would like for me to stop by during your conference period one day and help you get Plickers up and running, I would be happy to do that. I would also like to join your class on your first day of using Plickers to help that roll out go smoothly.
The first video is a quick introduction to what Plickers can do. The second video is a more detailed tutorial about setting up
September 20, 2019|Alwayslearning, Assessment, EdTech, Gamify, Math, Science, Social Studies, Vocabulary
Flocabulary is genuinely cool! Not only does it provide engaging rap videos over tons of topics for all content areas. It has entire lessons developed around those videos which include: interactive vocabulary cards, group discussion questions, games, read and respond activities, 10 question quizzes, and a Lyric Lab at the end which allows students to demonstrate mastery by creating their own rap song.
There is also a “Week in Rap” Current events news program each Friday. https://youtu.be/Wnftebc9DL0
This introduction to Flocabulary is very informative and worth a watch.
http://go.flocabulary.com/flocabulary-101-recording
Skip to 25:45 for information on how to set up your classes and how to view the data.
Elementary Teachers, I did some digging and came up with some very good and applicable lessons for the first unit in the second six weeks to get you started. Check for your grade level below.
Kinder
ELA: Main Idea https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/main-idea/
Math: Numbers https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/comparing-numbers/
What is a clock: https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/what-is-a-clock/
Science: Force and Motion https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/forces-and-motion/
States of Matter https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/three-states-of-matter/
Social Studies: Transportation https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/transportation/video/
1st Grade:
ELA: Adjectives https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/adjectives/
Math: Numbers https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/comparing-numbers/
Science: Force and Motion https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/forces-and-motion/
Social Studies: Customs and Traditions https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/new-year-celebrations/
2nd Grade
ELA: Author’s Purpose https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/authors-purpose/
Math: Fractions https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/fractions/
Science: Energy from the Sun https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/sun/video/
Social Studies: Map Skills https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/map-skills/
3rd Grade
ELA: Suffixes https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/suffixes/
Math: Money https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/money/
Science: Force andMotion https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/forces-and-motion/
Social Studies: Map Skills https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/map-skills/
4th Grade
ELA: Context Clues https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/context-clues/
Math: Place Value https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/place-value/ Multiplying with an arrayhttps://www.flocabulary.com/unit/multiplying-arrays/
Science: Natural Resources https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/natural-resources/
Social Studies: Explorers https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/age-of-exploration/
5th Grade
ELA:Persuasive Language https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/persuasive-language/
Math: Order of Operations https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/pemdas/
Science: Electrical Energy https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/current-electricity/
Social Studies: French and Indian War https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/french-indian-war/
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Facebook contest last week.
The winners were
Mrs. Tuter at Lowe
and
Mrs. Q’Quinn at Lacy.
I delivered their baskets of treats this morning. Hopefully you will win next time.
Boom cards is a tool to create activities that you could post for your students in SeeSaw or Google Classroom.
Let’s take a quick look at Boom Cards. Boom Cards lets you create interactive lessons and activities for your students. Boom cards provides instant feedback and checks answers for you.
There are lots of possibilities for exciting activities in Boom Cards however the free version is purely for exploring how to make one. The free account is useless for assigning to students and trying to use in class. Pricing is low though.
A hidden treasure of the internet. Bingocardgenerator.com is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. Thanks to Ms. Hall for sharing this with us.
Here is a printable .pdf poster with some shortcut key strokes you can use when working on a Windows PC.
My Favorite one is being able to launch programs from the taskbar. I can hit Windows + 1 to launch my Screencast-o-matic quickly.
Is your students screen zoomed in to the point it is unusable? Is the cursor gigantic? Is the display strange colors all of a sudden? Is the Chromebook narrating everything they do and see?
These are incredibly common issues. The Accessibility features on your students Chrome profile have been enabled. I am not 100% sure if they are accidentally turning it on or if their peers are messing with them. I can tell you it is a Chrome setting and will follow them to any device so changing Chromebooks does not help.
You can press alt+Shft+S to jump to that menu and turn off those features.
You can also reach them by clicking on the time in the bottom right corner and then clicking the little person.
We look at how to shorten a YouTube video. We won’t use any software or difficult steps. We will copy and paste a URL then add a little magic to the end of it.
Create a Collaborative Story with your students. Start the story for your students with a good prompting line then have them continue the story one at a time.
This is an awesome and simple idea. You can create a Google Doc with the first line already on there to get them started. Maybe even include a table with a column for the students name to keep them in a rotation.
Or create a Google Slides presentation with the first line on the first slide. Follow that with lots of blank slides for students to add their lines to. Maybe even add student names to each slide so there is no confusion over who goes next. With the slides option you could even have students go back and add illustrations to someone else’s slide. This will also leave you with a fun presentation of the story to click through when it is done.
Here are some templates to get you started. Make yourself a copy. Type your students names into the template then copy paste the table/slides a few times as needed.
You could even get started with my Dragon Story example.
Let’s learn the best and fastest way to build good Gimkit Games. We will create using Flashcards which we will upload one group at a time, being sure to keep similar question types grouped together.
It’s quick. It’s easy. Check it out!
https://www.theresawills.com/templates
This website provides more than 30 slides templates that are set up for use in many content areas as well as generic templates for any content area. There are some pretty good and ready to go useful templates worth checking out.
I think the Would You Rather slide could be a fun warm up activity especially if you change the questions to something related to your lesson for the day. You could use options that include being able to understand a concept or work out a formula. Then as the lesson progresses they realize they might have made a different choice knowing what they know now.
