Secondary Activities That Work!
J2 Training - Janet Corder & Joan Gore
Google Forms
Google Forms is a free Google App that gives teachers a paperless way to collect student responses to surveys, quizzes, and other activities. Results can be viewed within the Form or can be sent to Google Sheets for recording and analysis.
Google Forms Video Tutorials
Getting to Know You
Let's try it out by filling out this form!
Form Mule
FormMule is a Google Extension that allows you to create forms that will automatically notify parents of missing assignments, tutorial attendance, discipline warnings, etc. These three videos show you how to easily setup Form Mule. Thanks to Tom Horn from Medlin Middle School in Northwest ISD (Texas) for sharing!
Let's try it out! Click here to access the form. Use your email address for the parent/guardian address and make up a missing assignment name. Once you click submit, check your email to see what a parent would receive.
Video - Demonstration of FormMule
Study Stack
You can find flashcard stacks already made for the ACT, SAT, other major standardized tests and all curriculum content areas on Study Stack. Teachers and students can create an account and create their own stacks of flashcards. The site also has games, practice activities and several print options.
That Quiz
For directions on how to effectively use That Quiz, check out Mathy Cathy's Blog post.
Newsela
Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform that includes current articles in seven categories: War & Peace, Science, Health, Kids, Money, Law, and Arts. The articles are Common Core-aligned and available in five Lexile levels. Each leveled text includes a quiz and a writing prompt about the article.
Quick Start Guide for Teachers
Newsela Worksheet
Desmos
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Desmos provides an excellent classroom examples on their home screen and an extensive list of classroom activities.
Check out this Pinterest Board for lots of Desmos video tutorials.
Google Site of Desmos activities.
Using Digital Tools to Explore Conics in Math - Includes lesson plan, student examples and teacher tutorial
3 Wonderfully Awesome @Desmos Activities
"Match My Parabola" Desmos Mini-Challenges by Michael Fenton
"Match My Graph" Desmos Mini-Challenges by Michael Fenton
Polygraph: Exponential Functions
InstaGrok
InstaGrok is a visual search engine that collects accurate educational content and displays it in a concept map/word cloud. From there, students can find videos, images, weblinks and text. Students can use the slider tool in the top, left corner to access information by reading difficulty.
Let's Play Bingo!
Open bingobaker.com/play/109406 on your device.
Click the Free space.
Click the answers to the problems as they are called out.
Shout Bingo if you win!
Thinglink
Thinglink makes pictures interactive with text, images, videos and links and will work on any device. (WEB and APP)
French Revolution
Graphing Linear Inequalities
Algebra Problem
500+ ThinkLink Educational Examples
Google Docs for Learning
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy & Web 2.0 Tools
Virtual Manipulatives for the iPad
My Texas
Sewing Machine
School Map
Keyboarding Activities
The Balance Sheet
College Tour and Information
Favorite Chrome Extensions
Google Drive
Tornado
Apollo 11
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Socrative
How well do you know the geography?
Go to socrative.com.
The room number is football.
Wait for the teacher to start the quiz!
Use Socrative to visualize the responses of your students! Step-by-step directions and question ideas can be found in this post from Socrative.
Socrative also has an App for most devices!
Easily Create Your Word Walls
Create Your Word Wall or Flashcards
School Express contains an online tool that allows you to take the weekly spelling words or vocabulary words and easily create your Word Wall cards or Flashcards.
Once words are typed into the site, you have the following options:
- Print 2, 3 or 4 words per page
- Black or light grey text color
- Comic Sans or Sans Serif font
Adobe Spark (Slate)
Student Example
Kahoot!
Are you ready to have some fun?
- On your device or laptop, open kahoot.it.
- Enter the Pin number projected on the screen and click Enter.
- Type in your name and click Join Game.
- Wait for the teacher to begin the game.
Ghost Mode in Kahoot
Giving Students Choices
Here are three examples of a project about President John F. Kennedy. The examples contain the same content, however, the information is presented in a different format in each project.
Tutorials:
Videolicious
Adobe Slate
Animoto
Examples of assignments that give students choices:
Tic Tac Techo
Choice Board
Articles:
Liven Up Your Lessons by Giving Students Choices
Empowering Students: Add Choice to Assignments
Student Choice and Engagement - Ohio Research CenterNearPod
Open www.nearpod.com.
Click on the Join Session button.
Type in the Pin Number the teacher gives you.
Wait for the teacher to begin.
Nearpod also has an App for most devices!
TypeForm
EdPuzzle
Open EdPuzzle.com.
Click Login.
Select Student.
If you do not have an account, select Sign Up at the bottom of the screen. (no email required)
Click Add Class.
Type in the Code eZ4rxg.
Click Join the Class.
Choose the Blue Start Button under the video.
Click the Play button to begin the assignment.
Other Tools to Create Online Quizzes and Games
Augmented Reality
What is augmented reality? Movies have given us a sense of “alternative reality” for years. Augmented reality makes something come to life! It seems like magic.
Let's take a look at a few of my favorites:
Aurasma and $1.00 and $20.00 Bills - Aurasma in the Classroom
Elements 4D Cubes
Coloring Pages by Quiver
NASA Spacecraft 3D
QR Codes
QR codes - they're everywhere, but how can they be used in the classroom?
The easiest QR Code Reader is I-Nigma. It is available for most devices.
- Let's check these out:
- States and Capitals
- Inverse Operations
- Genetics
- Inequality Word Problems
- Properties of Matter
- Story Cubes
- Canterbury Tales
- Famous Texas Battles
- Homework Help
Padlet
We want to know...
Open http://padlet.com/wall/newtool.
Double click on the wall and answer the question.
Thanks for sharing!
Connect/Follow Janet & Joan
Email - janet.corder@gmail.com
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