Played with Paranormal? Xtranormal turns type (or text) into speech. Students create a monologue or incorporate a dialogue between characters to explain various concepts. Students can retell main parts of a book, report on a historical event, or explain steps in a math problem. View a language arts example used for Erin Klein’s reading intervention class or a […]
Take a virtual field trip! Here are 5 great ones…and a link to 5 more! 1. Arctic Adventure Free to the entire K-12 community, this programming uses the allure of Arctic dogsled expeditions and Arctic research as the vehicle through which K-12 teachers and students gain an understanding of natural and social sciences while they experience
How great would this be to create about your subject, grade level, a specials teacher, etc? A great closing activity! I used to have my students FILL an 8 1/2 sheet of copy paper full of all the things we’d learned cumulatively from the past year. they could use their books, their journals, etc. I’d
This is cross posted from the Connected Principals site. I wrote a post for our teachers on my blog talking about the opportunities that we still have before the end of the school year. At that point we had 16 days left and I gave 16 easy, free things that they could do that didn’t center necessarily with
Getting to do what we do, :) Read More »
Have each student, on a sheet of notebook paper create different scrabble tiles. Then, go outside and play team scrabble! You can do a theme version, a nouns only, or verbs only version…best adjective wins a prize! So easy and so fun! Tile-y, Amber
One of the more fabulous reasons that personal learning connections are so worthwhile are those random moments when they can impact what you do, daily. I’ve responded to a couple of different hashtag requests that the reason I love twitter so much is that it allows me to connect with people who make me better
Truth, Justice, & the Edtech Way Read More »
Have you let your students create something this year? Have they had the opportunity to show off their high thinking skills? I loved 5th grades angry bird’s animal adaptations that they have up right now. It took something that students enjoy and allowed them to create an adapted animal. Remmeber that our fab fifth graders
A balloon pop is a cute idea for students to do at the end of the year serving as a countdown. Each student writes a reward/activity that they would like to do. Then they turn them into you and you can pick the ones you want to do inside a balloon and blow them up.
This activity includes a worksheet set up as an “end of year” activity AND a blank version for you to adapt as you see fit – I’ve used it for review questions / work and the kids like to use it.
Love this idea from Jo’s PhotoMojo. Snap a picture of each of your students holding a sign saying what they want to be when they get up. Then use PicMonkey (or another image editing service) to make a collage of the photos and send them home as year-end gifts.