Teacher and Student Use Ideas
Potential Teacher Uses
Question 2. (multiple choice) What is the mood created by the selection? (CCES. 7RL.3. Analyze how elements of a story or drama interact)
Question 3: (short answer) Choose a piece of imagery used in the selection and explain how it creates a suspenseful mood. Use direct evidence and cite the paragraph number of your evidence in your answer. (CCES.7RL.1 Cite several pieces of evidence that support what the text says inferences drawn from the text; CCES.7RL.4 Analyze the impact of figurative language in a text)
2. How well did you understand the material? (multiple choice)
3. What did you learn today? (free response)
4. Please solve the problem on the board. (free response)
- Teachers can use the app to create quizzes with questions that align to Common Core Essential Standards. For example, for my "Tell-Tale Heart" quiz for 7th graders, I created Common Core aligned questions that related to the short story text "Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe:
Question 2. (multiple choice) What is the mood created by the selection? (CCES. 7RL.3. Analyze how elements of a story or drama interact)
Question 3: (short answer) Choose a piece of imagery used in the selection and explain how it creates a suspenseful mood. Use direct evidence and cite the paragraph number of your evidence in your answer. (CCES.7RL.1 Cite several pieces of evidence that support what the text says inferences drawn from the text; CCES.7RL.4 Analyze the impact of figurative language in a text)
- Teachers can use the app for a quick check for understanding. By selecting "single question activities", the teacher can pose a question to the class orally, or project a multiple-choice, true/false, or short answer question on the board. Students answer on their devices, and teachers get immediate results. This also can spark student discussion, as well as inform the teacher on how he/she may need to readjust his/her lesson in the moment based on the results.
- Teachers can use the pre-made exit ticket on the app to assess what students learned at the end of a lesson. The questions on the pre-made exit ticket are listed below. Or, teachers can create a different quiz (with more Common Core-aligned questions) and use it as a class exit ticket.
2. How well did you understand the material? (multiple choice)
3. What did you learn today? (free response)
4. Please solve the problem on the board. (free response)
- Teachers can amp up the fun factor by running a quiz as a Space Race instead. The students are randomly assigned to "teams" which are denoted by rockets of different colors. As students on that team answer questions correctly, their rocket moves forward. Teachers can use this for those Common-Core aligned quizzes they have created.
- Lastly, teachers can use the reports to analyze student learning and determine what they need to reteach. When making a quiz, it would be helpful to teachers to label each question with the Common Core Essential Standard before the question, i.e., "(RL7.3) What is the narrator's tone throughout the text?" Since the reports do not organize questions by standard, this way the teacher can get a quick view in the Excel spreadsheet of how each student did on each standard.
Potential Student Uses
- Students can complete the Common-Core aligned quizzes, exit tickets, checks for understanding, and Space Race activities as described above.
- The Space Race activity especially is a great and fun way to get students collaborating and working in groups to answer the questions correctly. It's also a great idea if not all students have a device; if the kids are grouped up, only one device is needed to participate.
- Students can also, from home, re-take past quizzes as a way to study for tests or review material (the teacher will have to enable those activities for kids to do at home).
- Also at home, students could complete quizzes that align to the text that the teacher assigns for homework. This focuses the student on the most important information in the assigned reading, and improves their skill of finding answers in, and thinking critically about, a text. The teacher can check this data at night as each student completes the quiz.
- Students can track their progress on each quiz by filling out a sheet each time the teacher tells them their results. They can even track how they're doing by standard if the teacher groups each question by Common Core Essential Standard.