Technology Tuesdays - Kahoot!

My students have been obsessed with Kahoot since the first time we played it!  I have to admit, that I am super obsessed too!!  I love this website!

Kahoot is the perfect way to integrate games and technology into your classroom!  It's also great to show anyone who works in your school computer lab because they're sure to find a ton of uses for it as well!

I love that there are tons and tons of public Kahoots that you can search!  When I first started playing, we were prepping for our state science test and I just searched through 4th and 5th grade premade science games.  I found tons of super usable games for my state test review.  My students couldn't get enough of it!

What I love about it is that it forces everyone to respond and the students get instant feedback.  Isn't it every teacher's dream for students to get immediate feedback and have everyone participating?!  Yep...Kahoot makes it happen!  Plus, at the end of the game, you can download a spreadsheet of each student's answers.  So, you get 100% participation, instant feedback, and a record of their results.  How amazing is that!

AND IT'S FREE!!!

Eventually, my 5th grade team started making some of our math exit tickets on Kahoot.  Seriously, the kids ask to play it like 20 times a day.  Haha.  They love when I mix it up and give them a Kahoot exit ticket!

We also made our end of unit math review practice on Kahoot.  We gave the students the questions to solve beforehand and then had them enter all of their answers into the Kahoot after everyone had finished.  It made grading super easy, gave students feedback on their performance before testing and it was fun.  We all won!

If you haven't tried Kahoot, it's super quick and easy to set up and the students pick it up super quickly.  I definitely recommend giving it a try in your classroom!!

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Technology Tuesday: Study Jams

I have had quite the productive week!  Since I've been so productive, I'm ready to kick off another series for my blog, Technology Tuesdays!  I honestly contribute all of this blogging, TpT productivity to my knee injury.  If I can't be at the gym, I might as well be working on my laptop, right?

Today, I want to showcase a fun website that I learned about from one of colleagues called Study Jams.  This service used to be a paid service and now it's offered for free. It houses a ton of videos and slideshows focusing on math and science.  My students love using Study Jams!  In fact, my best sub plan activity is anything involving Study Jams!  They stay engaged and focused the whole time!

I created a product to go along with this great service and I have plans to make tons more!  When I say tons more, I mean one for every topic.  I almost have the second one completed.  I had to take a break because my hands start to hurt from typing so much!  I plan to have it finished by the end of the week though  :)

Right now, I have an interactive science notebook up focusing on the solar system.  It coordinates with the Study Jams on the solar system and I think it'll keep your kids hooked!

If you love interactive notebooks and you love technology-based lessons that can be done independently and paced/modified to fit your students, you're going to love this notebook set!!

Click the cover image below to see it in my store!

Here's a preview of the entire product!!

On another note, my TpT store is getting really close to 100 followers.  I really want to celebrate this accomplishment because this feels HUGE to me.  I am thinking about discounting my entire store to $1.00 (because that's kind of like 100) for 24 hours.  I haven't decided yet though.  Or should I just do a giveaway using rafflecopter or something for store credit?  Thoughts??

Blog Series Icons

I'm seriously procrastinating right now.  I should be doing laundry, washing dishes and cooking.  Instead, I'm making icons for the blog series that I am thinking of starting.  I talked about what will be in the posts on my Sunday Scoop if you're interested in reading about it!

What do you think of the icons?