I taught my third lesson in my American Symbols lesson today. It was by far my favorite one yet! The students were so engaged throughout and everything flowed smoothly. As my motivational device I had one of my students come to the back of the room out of site of the other sites and put my Statue of Liberty crown on him. I told the students that Mike* and I went on a trip to borrow this crown for our lesson today. I prompted the class about who we borrowed the crown from in order for them to say "the Statue of Liberty". This really got all of the students focused on the task at hand. I made Statue of Liberty "puzzles". The pieces had a true or false facts next to a section of the statue. The students had to put the pieces in order. The false facts would not fit into the puzzle so that helped students determine what was true and what wasn't. I paired students up to help each other with reading the pieces. I had strong readers with weak readers and this seemed to really help. After each student had their puzzles completed I brought them over to the SmartBoard rug. Each student got an iPad and I used the website Kahoot! to check the students puzzles in quiz form. I discovered this website recently and I was so excited to try it in an actual classroom. You can make quizzes, discussions or surveys. You can also choose from quizzes that other users have made and allowed for public access. The quiz questions were up on the SmartBoard and the students answered on the iPads after entering the quiz using a game pin.My co-op gave me great feedback and she asked for a copy of the activity to save for future use. We also discussed other ways we could use Kahoot! in the classroom. We had slight technology issues but for the most part it all went smoothly.
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