Strategy or Tool

Description

Warm up / Do Now

vs. Entrance Ticket

Respond to question in writing. Teacher can circulate and read the responses, have students share out loud, or turn it in for an entrance ticket

Poll Everywhere

Quick online poll, can be accessed from a cell phone, text, Twitter, etc

Whip

Way to engage multiple students - must have a question with multiple possible responses. Students can pass.

Online Quizzes & Forms

• Socrative App (single or many questions- varying format such as MC, TF, fill in blank. Can include pictures
• Haiku quizzes/practice
• the google form with the clickable answer key that comes up right after you complete the form -- benefit is also that you get data (flubaroo automatic grading script that can even email the students)

Kahoot.it

Online quiz with leaderboard based on speed and correct answers.  Teacher makes questions and projects answers for students to select on iPad.

Memory, Charades, Taboo

Memory: cards match based on definitions, DNA sequence matches, etc

Speed Dating: have students face each other (half in outer circle, half in inner circle). Each pair works together to answer a question, then whole class shares, then inner circle moves to the right For the next question

Quiz-Quiz Trade

• also has movement
• walk around with placard, with answer on the back. Student is confident in the answer on the back.
• Students match up with partners, try to answer questions, and then trade the questions.

Find your Soulmate

Find someone with the same answer as yours for quiz-quiz trade variety(same answer, different question)

30 Second Teams

• Groups of 3. Every person gets 30 seconds to work on the problem, then pass. The kids rotate.
• Kids have to evaluate the work that came before.
• Groups present

Peer Instruction with Socrative App

Agreement circles (Kerry)

Four corners: N/S/E/W

• answer a question and vote on the app
• then pair up with someone who had a different answer adn discuss, and then vote again

Agreement circles are similar: make a statement and students either agree or disagree with the statement. Those that agree go to an inner circle facing out, those that ddisagree make an outer circle facing in. Then the two circles need to convince each other that they are right. Students can move between circles. Then you can discuss as agroup if need be.

Four corners NSEW - similar to agreement circles, go to one of 4 corners of the room - either agree, strongly agree, disagree, strongly disagree

Exit tickets

• usually a summary of the day’s lesson
• 1+ questions
• about 3 mins or so
• Often leaves room for a question from student

3:2:1 Reflection

• Demonstrated in jigsaw workshop. Students submit 3 things they already knew, 2 things they learned and 1 question they still have.

• can be exit ticket

Nearpod

iPad app. Interactive presentation tool. Pushes slides to student iPads and teacher can control which slides students see. Interactive features like quizzes, drawings and polls. Can embed slideshows and websites in slides.

3-minute summary (Kerry)

• students must write continuously for 3 minutes to summarize a concept or answer a questio.

Think and Write Hypothesizing

take a question, think about it, write about it on your own, then discuss in pairs, then in fours, then in the entire class

Conflict answers

(victoria)

Three to four students discuss their answers,  if there is a conflict or question in groups students hold it and then we review as a whole class

Redirecting questions to other students

Have students answer each other’s questions

write answer on ipad or white board -- thumbs up or thumbs down (Lisa, Susan)

Give the kids a problem and ask them to write down the answer on their ipad or white board and hold it up.  If they are correct they get a thumbs up or a nod and if they are wrong they get a thumbs down or a head shake.

Oral presentations

Quick summaries of specific topics recently discussed

Turn and Talk

Students share ideas with each other in small groups for a short period of time and then report back to class.

put down an answer on a tiny slip of paper

Kids write down their answer to a question on a tiny slip of paper and hand in to teacher.  Teacher buckets answers and posts results on board.

Concept web

Teacher or students record ideas about a concept