Week of April 8 – April 12, 2019
So even with STAAR testing for 7th and 8th graders, teachers found great ways to use technology to engage the students through the long week.
Awesome engagement in 8th grade science today! Students were hunting for the questions that matched their answers. They had to justify their reasoning on why that answer matches! Connections & Conversations- a win win for all! @LLMSLynx @SwellsScience #goosechase pic.twitter.com/aG00Ga0Z37
— Tiffani Troy (@TiffaniTroy1) April 12, 2019
I saw many teachers using Goosechase to have students review before the test or review content in a new and fun way. Mrs. Gilliland and Mrs. Harper completed their first Goosechase on Monday to review ELA concepts. Students raced around the building to answer questions about homonyms, parts of speech, etc.
In 8th grade Science, Mrs. Troy and Mrs. Wells used Goosechase to review multiple Science concepts for their upcoming benchmark. Students moved around the building in stations to make videos about each of the concepts representing their knowledge and understanding. Check out a student’s response above.
Coach Pope and I had a short training on Flipgrid. He is interested in using Flipgrid to have students response verbally about their understanding and connections of material in Texas History. His plan is to gain an understanding of Flipgrid throughout the last month and a half of school, so that he can use it to gain insight for how to use it at the start of next school year.
Mrs. Harrell invited me to her class to see her students use Kahoot Jumble. Kahoot Jumble has you put four answers in some type of order instead of the traditional Kahoot where you just select one answer. For Mrs. Harrell’s review of the essential standard on ordering numbers, she had students use the Kahoot Jumble to put rational numbers in order.