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| (From Leo Reynolds Flickr Stream; Photoshopped by Jen) |
Symbols – Using playdoh, pipe cleaners, and/or art materials, have students create a symbol representing what they learned that day. My favorites are the giant piper cleaners – look for them at craft stores near you.
Weather, Geography or Landscape Report – Ask students to connect what they learned in class that day to a weather pattern, geographic location or type of landscape. For example, a student might say, “The story of Romeo and Juliet to me is like a partly sunny day with severe thunderstorms in the afternoon. The sunny part of the day is when Romeo and Juliet meet. The thunderstorm happened when Juliet died.”
Switch-off - Create a thoughtful, open-ended, higher-order thinking question for students (you should be thinking of Bloom's Taxonomy right now, yes?). Allow students time to reflect and write their answer. Then, have students switch papers with a classmate and react to what their classmate wrote. Do these switch offs as many times as you see fit.
Headlines – have students generate a newspaper headline to represent what they learned in class that day. Also, use this activity to assess students’ energy levels, emotional states, connections to material, etc.
Thermometer of Learning – This one takes the least amount of time. Post temperatures on the wall by the door. Ask students to touch the temperature that represents how much they learned that day.
Photographs – Ask students to reflect on the lesson that day. What stands out in their minds? Now, ask students to take a photograph (in their mind) of that part of the lesson. What does it look like? Who was doing what? What was their role in the photo? This might be a fun one to recreate with cell phone cameras. Oh, does your school still ban cell phones used educationally?If you missed the tweet exit ticket from last week, click here. It, too, encourages reflection.
Best,
Jen
