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2 | Use Minecraft | Students can create ANYTHING in Minecraft. Just throw out there to students "or.... do it in Minecraft." Students build their projects in a 3D world, screencast it and explain their project. | https://minecraft.net/en-us/ | Go to YouTube and type in any topic and include the word Minecraft. | @alicekeeler | Check out book on teaching with Minecraft on Amazon. | ||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Pixel art for radial symmetry | Have students find inspiration in images of radial symmetry in nature, then create a pixelated version of it! | https://goo.gl/M4aO1Q | Use the pixel spreadsheet to create nature inspired pixelations of radial symmetry. | @rownbey | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Selfies with Math | As a way of identifying who they are in a shared doc or slide, have students include a selfie! | https://twitter.com/rownbey/status/854082758171181056 | Throw out a question or assignment in a shared doc, rather than having students put their name on their slide or in the doc, have them take a selfie. This is an amazing way for students to interact with other students and with teachers in a fun, light-hearted way. | @rownbey | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | create a renaissance village | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Create a Kahoot | Kids will run to class and poke each other in the eye to do a Kahoot. Kick it up a notch and let the kids make the Kahoot. | https://getkahoot.com/ | @alicekeeler | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Thinglink | Create an interactive poster with links to video, animations, and recorded content to enhance information and interest. | https://www.thinglink.com/en-us/ | @bowdenm | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Hardboiled Humanities | Use a hardboiled egg in a "diorama" (although, a really terrible way to present a topic) to represent a famous human. | https://twitter.com/highdownhistory/status/848230049111310336 | goofy, creative and forces 'outside the box" thinking | @russeltarr via @thespearson | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4R50UzaEtWnREp0am1DUjBSSWM | ||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Illustrated Digital Report | Students can choose any medium to create their report. Examples of various mediums include Canva, S'more, Slides, or Prezi. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Use Cospaces to create a virtual museum | Students create 360 degree museums of academic content. These spaces can be explored on virtual reality headsets. Students can participate in virtual gallery walks. | cospaces.io | @mrsbradley2c | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cospaces-make-your-own-vr/id1091239872?mt=8 | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Create visual outlines of concepts on Storyboardthat | Students can create working outlines and demonstrate understanding | storyboardthat.com | @mrsbradley2c | http://www.storyboardthat.com/articles/education/teacher-resources | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Use Scratch/Scratchjr/ | Students can demonstrate and animate content | scratch.com | @mrsbradley2c | ipad app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scratchjr/id895485086?mt=8 | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | USe ABCYA Animate to create animated notes | Create doodle note animations/cartoons that describe content being studied | http://www.abcya.com/animate.htm | @mrsbradley2c | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Use Symbaloo to create a playlist | Students can build an entire unit of study of organized tiles that teaches content | symbaloo.com | @mrsbradley2c | https://lessonplans.symbaloo.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Use robotics to map a storyline/academic concept | Use Dash and Dot or Ozobots to create storymaps or tosequence ideas | ozobot.com | @mrsbradley2c | http://ozobot.com/stem-education/stem-lessons | |||||||||||||||||||||
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17 | Blackout Poetry | Use a news article and Google Drawing to create blackout poetry. | http://edtechnut.blogspot.com/2016/09/mash-up-online-article-google-drawing.html | @EdTechNut | http://edtechnut.blogspot.com/2016/09/mash-up-online-article-google-drawing.html | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Time Magazine Cover | Have students create a cover for Time Magazine to demonstrate understanding | #ERROR! | @EdTechNut | https://goo.gl/ltNU3M | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Play the Minuet | Students perform the Minuet as part of our exploration of Colonial art | https://youtu.be/alHIU03wZD8?list=PLThjRhND65hwNUjj6PI2ELyQYl0orvdM6 | This activity was about exploring the Art of Colonial America. Students performed dance, music, sang and others created 2D artwork. I am at a Pk-8 STEAM school of the Arts so all middle school students have art majors and this integrationenabled them to incorporate their favorite type of art into History class. | @DennisDill | https://youtu.be/emna0rbjV3I?list=PLThjRhND65hwNUjj6PI2ELyQYl0orvdM6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Adobe Spark Page or Post | Make a website and insert video, interactive maps etc | spark.adobe.com | @mrsamcintosh | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Curate a playlist | Have students analyze a novel by creating a 10 song playlist of music to fit your novel study or content topic. They can then share their playlist with their novel group to analyze which sections of text inspired each song choice. | Background music is key to any great movie, so why not have your students curate a playlist to go along with the content or topic being covered in class? | @rownbey | http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-New-Playlist-on-YouTube | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Padlet | Use it to show the knowledge a group has crowd sourced | padlet.com | I use it so the students can write about anything in the safety that their ideas will be anonymous. | @excellentwretch | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Static Image | Static Image combines visual elements to create an image that communicates a message to the audience. | https://www.slideshare.net/Kazmania/visual-and-verbal-features-static-image | The process of creating a SI requires a lot of feedback from others along the way and must begin with a strong understanding of the message the artist desires to communicate. The artist must communicate the message without telling/saying the message. | @teachjanderson | https://www.slideshare.net/Kazmania/static-image | https://www.slideshare.net/guestf8d8f515/18-static-image-exemplars-from-nzqa | http://assessment.tki.org.nz/Assessment-tools-resources/The-NZ-Curriculum-Exemplars/English-exemplars/Visual-language/Static-images | ||||||||||||||||||
24 | Visual Texts | Similar to a Static Image - Often combines propaganda style techniques | https://www.slideshare.net/gohbangrui/english-language-visual-text | @teachjanderson | https://www.slideshare.net/MsSharonLim/visual-text-comprehension | https://www.slideshare.net/adamnaeha/visual-texts-intro1 | https://www.slideshare.net/gohbangrui/o-level-visual-text-common-questions-and-how-to-answer-them | |||||||||||||||||||
25 | Google Sheets - Conditional Formatting | Complete the tasks and watch the videos to learn about the relationship between perfect squares and square roots. Learn a little about spreadsheets in the process. | sheets.google.com | There are instructions in the videos to follow. Make sure you watch them in their entirety. | @kaudan721 | https://goo.gl/nMuHZM | ||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Dotstorming | Similar to Padlet. Kids can vote and comment on posts. | dotstorming.com | I use it for Which One Doesn't Belong | @kaudan721 | https://dotstorming.com/b/58529c7a152738aa9e86e494 | https://dotstorming.com/b/5878ebe28595a3ed00ecae7f | |||||||||||||||||||
27 | Use a Google MyMaps to tell a story | of a story plot or history/geography theme | https://www.google.com/maps/d/ | @jpkitchin | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Screencastify: Interactive posters | You can take a google slides/powerpoint and make it come to life. No more reading from the slide, but rather visuals that can transport the audience to the story. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dusU50Ir8 | A project students did to showcase their city of Bejing. | @burnsme | |||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Music Videos | Take the subject and storyline of the project and put it to music. Allows kids to blend their emerging interest in music and get creative in tying them together with content. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693ubJi52so | Project was on the civil war. This is the beauty I received. | @burnsme | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Create an infographic | Do RESEARCH, synthesize multiple sources, summarize, represent data visually. | There are many infographics creators, I like to do mine from scratch in Google Drawings. | @alicekeeler | https://edtechhistory.blogspot.com/2017/04/creating-infographics-with-google-slides.html | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Create a Snapchat story | Students take what they are learning and create a running snapchat story using google slides. Use google and google drawings to put filters on pictures of people | slides.google.com | Students made a snapchat story from the point of view of George Washington durign his first presidency | @dmoorespanish | |||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Gamification | Create the ultimate in PBL desgins by turning your work, lessons or classes into a live action game. Develop a story and let the students meet and interact with characters. Tons of fun and not too hard to do! Let your creativity fly! | www.mrhebert.org | Wrap any of these ideas into a gamified classroom for the ultimate engagement tool! | @MrHebertPE | http://www.mrhebert.org/store.html | http://www.mrhebert.org/blog | |||||||||||||||||||
33 | #BookSnaps | #BookSnaps allow the reader to connect an idea or thought by creating a digital visual representation via Snapchat or another photo app. The visual representation solidifies the text content within the mind and signals the brain to retrieve the idea from memory. | http://www.tarammartin.com/resources/booksnaps-how-to-videos/ | * Digital Highlighter * Personally connect to text * Annotate and share excerpts of the book you’re reading • Might diagram the rise, fall, and climax of the plot • Or, highlight figurative language and imagery • Notate character conflict and internal struggles • Main idea or a supporting argument • It has its own hashtag #BookSnaps on Twitter! • It’s EASY! Just read, snap, reflect, add stickers, share, and repeat. | @TaraMartinEDU | http://www.tarammartin.com/booksnaps-snapping-for-learning/ | tarammartin.com | |||||||||||||||||||
34 | Holograms | Students can make their own video of them explaining a concept (or even of the concept) and use an app like Holaplex Hologram Video Maker to convert it into the correct format. Students can then create the hologram projector using a thick plastic to create their 3D hologram | https://diyhacking.com/diy-hologram/ | Can incorporate maths & technology into any subject area. The maths component is in the creation of the hologram projector (using angles, scale etc) and then the technology in the creation of the video and converting it into the correct format. | @hobson_k | |||||||||||||||||||||
35 | 7 Wonders of the World | Students can use Google Tours to highlight 7 wonders of the world as they pertain to their specific content being studied. | https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/ | Students can create a tour of 7 most significant battles of a given war, specific biomes, life forms, specific engineering structures, or architecture significant to a given era of time. It's limitless!! I've also used Google Tours to document the travels of characters in a novel study. | @rownbey | |||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Design a Shoe | Vans and Converse are both known for their radical and inspiring shoe designs. What if students designed a shoe inspired by a certain topic, theme, or novel being studied? | http://www.vans.com/custom-shoes.html | Students can find inspiration for a new graphic design and execute the design using sharpie marker and blank canvas tennis shoes like Vans or Converse. Topics are limitless! Russian Revolution, electricity and power, geometry, John Steinbeck. | @rownbey | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Alternate Ego Bitmoji | Students can use Bitmoji to create an alter ego of a character in a novel or of an historical figure. | https://www.bitmoji.com/ | What better way to analyze a character than to approach it from their alter ego? | @rownbey | |||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Bring a poster to life | Students use Yakit Kids to bring an image on a poster to life. They can write a script and the image talks, then they use Aurasma so that when they hover an ipad, iphone or android device over the image a VR talking version of the image appears. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rRA92WXHeM | you can also use chatterpix, we have all our ipads logged into the same aurasma account, that way we don't have to worry about finding channels etc | @gderry | |||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Animated Transformations | Who wants to label transformations on a worksheet? Have students use google slides to animate the various transformations instead! | https://www.google.com/slides/about/ | Students can be as basic or as advanced as their minds and creativity will allow on this one. Set a requirement of x amount of translations, reflections, and rotations for students to demonstrate in their animation and let their natural, creative instincts take over. | @rownbey | |||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Claymation Videos | Students create a stop motion video using clay. Can be done in science to describe a biological process or in math to show transformations of functions (as a couple examples | Each and every step has to be shot as an individual frame which requires that students fully understand the process of whatever they are creating the video for. Students can then upload the video to a public site for other people to reference. | @amymathsci | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | #sixwordstory | Students create a stop motion video using clay. Can be done in science to describe a biological process or in math to show transformations of functions (as a couple examples | http://www.sixwordstories.net/ | This can be used for any content area. I have most recently been using it as a means for students to share with classmates what they're reading during their independent reading time. | @rownbey | |||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Create a Quiz | What better way to demonstrate understanding of content and higher level thinking than creating a quiz for your classmates? I've also used this as a motivation tool for my students in that they have to create a quiz that will stump ME. | https://www.google.com/forms/about/ | Have students create a quiz in google forms and then share their quiz to google classroom for their peers to take. The parameters: The answers to your questions can't be found by a simple google search and the questions cannot be yes/no. This elevates the level of thinking in the question development. | @rownbey | |||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Movie Trailer | Write and design a 1 minute trailer to share main concept. | Use iMovie tools or any other recording tool | |||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | QR Code Gallery Walk | Next to a piece of art/writing/math have students use QR codes to link to the audio content describing their work. Invite parents in and have students ensure they have a qr code reader and a headset to peruse the gallery! | Use GarageBand (or any recording app with Google Drive integration) to record the audio and bump it up to the students' drive. Then create a shareable link. | Especially good for students who are intimidated by presentations. Can be used for any content area, and the audio can easily be housed and linked to via their Google Drive. | @teacherace | |||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Google Drawings | Students can collaborate, use templates from the web or that you/students made. Insert your own images or those from the internet, crop and edit images, add and edit text. | Google Drawings | @mrstbauerly | http://ditchthattextbook.com/2015/02/19/15-free-google-drawings-graphic-organizers-and-how-to-make-your-own/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Sutori Visual Story | Students work collaboratively to solve problems. Students create video solutions/presentations. A topic visual is designed and used as the target for AR review. | aurasma.com | @mrsbradley2c | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Students create a visual story using Sutori. Create any type of timeline, report, story, or even introduce new topics. Add a variety of multimedia including text, images, links, videos, multiple choice questions, drag-and-drop matching questions, add answer feedback. Students can share their stories with a link and add comment to each others stories. Teachers can create an account and add students to classes by giving them a class join code to access student work in one place. | https://www.sutori.com/ | This tool is truly great for any topic. It's great for timelines and biographies. Take a topic such as cell anatomy, key battles of the Civil War, or examples of metaphors in song lyrics and have students create a Sutori story. They can share their story links so that other students can learn from their peers. Require students to create multimedia elements (video, links, images) and interactive elements (multiple choice questions, drag-and-drop matching questions) that include feedback that explains the right answer. Easy to use and lots of fun! | @instruct_edtech | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxAPMenmhxLFuKG44C1CaBA | |||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Powtoon | Animate videos and presentations | https://www.powtoon.com/ | @yelena585 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Touchcast | This YouTube generation curates knowledge through video, and increasingly communicates through broadcasting. In the social media world they’re growing up in, anyone can be a broadcaster. With TouchCast, teachers can now use broadcasting tools to present information and to let their students communicate in a way in which they feel most comfortable and most creative. TouchCast allows educators and students around the world to easily create comprehensive and engaging interactive videos… and they have fun while doing it. All you need to do is look into the eyes of these youngsters as they say: 3, 2, 1, Action! (taken from https://www.touchcast.com/educatorguide) | https://www.touchcast.com/ | Embed content within your video and make it interactive! | @hshaffer | |||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Build a 3D printed city | Students working towards a maths unit on 3D shape or a unit relating to architecture or structures. Students each given a plot of land of a certain size then design buildings that serve a purpose within the city. | http://geekyteachers.com/building-a-3d-printed-city-with-students/ | @stulowe80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides | Students can create stop motion animation movies with Google Slides to tell stories and show understanding. | http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2017/04/stop-motion-slides.html | Students can take pictures and insert them right in Slides by clicking "Insert" then "Image" then "Take a snapshot". | @ericcurts | |||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Black Out Poetry with Google Docs | Students can use the highlight tool and page color option in Google Docs to easily create Black Out poems. | http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2017/03/blackout-poetry.html | @ericcurts | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | create a breakout -digital or physical | Students cam great a breakout to highlight their learning and share with other classes. | www.breakoutedu.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Make a Google website | Use the new Google sites to create a class website about a topic. Teams or individual students also could create sites. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Digital Scrapbook | digital scrapbook | https://www.canva.com/create/scrapbooks/ | Take something that has develops over stages and have students represent it as if it were a scrapbook a parent would make to capture the key events of a child's year. (I'm thinking embryology. or cell cycle, or photosynthesis...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Create a Google Tour of Historical Events | Use Google Tour to present historical information: a WW2 battlefield tour, Holocaust biographies, use journal entries to map exploration routes, etc. then act as tour guide for a group of classmates | https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/ | @covingtonahs | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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