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5 Steps to Gamify Your Elementary Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Heather Marrs shares how to get started with gamifying your classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How could you take your whole elementary classroom year and gamify it? What if everything students learn could gain them XP (experience points?)

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Starting the Year with “All About Me” Activities

User Generated Education

To learn how to create bitmojis for your learners, see this post by Matt Miller, [link]. I start all my classes, both elementary school and college classes, with an emotional check in. They use either Adobe Spark or a Google Slide to create their own. Personalized Feelings Chart. Examples of Lego Selfies can be seen at [link].

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7 Ways to Make Worksheets Engaging and Effective: The Ultimate Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

You're about to read a transcript that's been generated by the AI in Adobe Premiere Pro and then me. So this is also from Kagan Cooperative Learning. Create a scavenger hunt 11:00 Why we need to move on from the boring worksheets of the past Transcript Hello there, fellow knowledge-seekers! Spot a mistake in this transcript?

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Beginning the School Year with “Who I Am” Projects

User Generated Education

For this activity, students create a Vision Statement about themselves using Canva or Adobe Express. Most teachers and students these days know about Kahoot , a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes. Make your Own Toss and Talk Ball.

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Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps

MindShift

Layar : Another augmented reality tool, several elementary school teachers found it worked better for little kids than Aurasma, which requires individual accounts that can get complicated with young learners. ABCya : This app offers an interactive game-based learning environment for language. It is Web-based.

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