The Lead4ward website has many amazing resources available to educators. If you have never checked out their website you need to, like right NOW!!
My favorite resource on the website is the Instructional Strategies Playlist. I suggest bookmarking this page!! I use it all the time. These activities promote student engagement, collaboration, and critical thinking. I use many of these activities on a weekly basis.
I am going to share some of their strategies that you can adapt for any content and how you can use it digitally with your students. Any of these activities could be uploaded into Google Classroom, Schoology, or Learning Management Platform.
1. Mystery Bag
You can use the mystery bag with any content as a preview for your lesson, read aloud, exit ticket to encourage student discussion, add ideas, clarify confusing parts, and make connections. Instead of using a real paper bag and students touching items, you can reveal one image at a time using this Google Slide.
You could use this activity in whole group, small group, and even partners.
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2. Stop, Plop, Roll
Stop, Plop, Roll is one of my students' favorites and is a great activity to engage students in a practice/reflection activity. I have included math, reading, get to know you examples, and a blank template as well. I also linked some digital dice for you.
You could use this in a Future Ready station, partners, small group, or even individually.
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3. Fact or Fib Showdown
Facto or Fib Showdown can also be used with any content and are great for critical thinking and require students to justify their thinking. I made this a drag and drop activities. Students will read the two statements you create on the topic (or they could create two statements for a partner) then decide which one is the fact and which one is the fib. There is also a place for students to write their justification down. This could be done as a whole group, in a future ready station, or individually as well.
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Hope you can use these templates with your students! I'll be back soon with some more Lead4ward (Goes Digital) activities!
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