🗑 Spotify Wrapped template for Google Slides/PPT/Canva

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💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

🎶 Spotify Wrapped template + 10 ideas for class

Spotify Wrapped is coming — soon! In December, Spotify users often receive this summary of their year in music. It’s fun to see how you’re summarized — and even more fun to share.

Want to bring some of the fun over to your classroom?

We have free downloadable, copy-and-use templates for Google Slides, PowerPoint AND Canva right here. (Just scroll down to the blue box and choose the one you want!)

Pages inside the Spotify Wrapped template

• TITLE PAGE: The subject or title of the "Recap" activity.

• MINUTES LISTENED: A good place for an important number related to whatever your students are studying.

  • Examples: books read this year, assignments completed, elements memorized

• MY TOP SONGS / MY TOP ARTISTS: This is a place where students can rank something in top-5 style.

  • Examples: top 5 skills (strengths), top 5 study strategies used, top 5 subjects studied, top 5 collaborators/classmates, top 5 most important characters in a story

• MY TOP SONG: Students could do a deeper dive with the #1 in a list, giving more details and/or including an important statistic.

  • Examples: my top strength, my top "aha!" moment, my top Industrial Revolution innovation

• MY EVOLUTION: In Spotify Wrapped, this shows how your listening preferences changed throughout the year. These slides can show a "before and after" of some sort of metamorphosis.

  • Examples: how they've evolved as a learner, how their preferences for certain subjects/topics have evolved, how civilizations have evolved over time, how their skills have improved over time

10 ways to use the Spotify Wrapped templates

Sooooooo … how does all of this fit in a classroom?

Let’s look at a few detailed specific examples — and then some more quick hit examples.

First, a quick example image (above): Using the golden age of cinema. Use the “Minutes Listened” slide as a key stat — 90 million movie tickets sold. And use the “Top Songs” slide as the top movies in the golden age!

Now that you can see it

1. The Semester/Year Student Recap

Ask students to reflect on how they've grown as learners -- or as students in your class -- throughout the semester or year.

• Minutes Listened: Activities completed, minutes in class, pages read.

• Top Songs/Artists:  Greatest "aha!" moments, peak performances, most helpful resources.

• Top Song: my greatest achievement, my key takeaway, my growth mindset in action.

• My Evolution: compare improvements in time management, study skills, research abilities.

2. The Life Cycle Recap

This goes for anything that has a beginning and an end. This activity can help students share what they've learned about that cycle or process.

• Minutes Listened: Stages observed, adaptations identified, species compared

• Top Songs/Artists:  Unique characteristics, survival strategies (adaptations for survival), key stages

• Top Song: Metamorphosis marvel, specific species, most important stage

• My Evolution: My observation skills, my scientific process, I used to think/now I think

3. The Invention/Innovation Recap

When someone in history -- or current times -- does something remarkable, there's a lot to study and learn from -- and many ways students can show what they've learned.

• Minutes Listened: Years of development, prototypes built, people affected

• Top Songs/Artists:  Most important features, unexpected uses, design breakthroughs

• Top Song: Most influential person, top modern application, biggest competing technology

• My Evolution: Connection from past to present, how it sparked curiosity in the future, long-term consequence

You can find even more detailed examples — like the book/movie recap, the “my digital life” recap, and the historical/literary character recap — in the full Spotify Wrapped post.

Can I get something more customized to what I teach?

Short answer: Yes!

Are you having a hard time envisioning how these Spotify-inspired templates fit with what your students are learning?

I have good news: ChatGPT (or another AI assistant) can help.

Just copy/paste the prompt I’ve written (get the full text here near the bottom of the post) into an AI assistant like ChatGPT.

I used that prompt in Google Gemini (Google’s AI assistant) — and I asked it to give me creative ideas for using these Spotify-inspired templates for a fifth-grade biomes unit.

Here are the results (which you can see in more detail here):

Share your best examples with us!

If you use these Spotify Wrapped-inspired templates, I’d love to see how it went!

(Also: I shared these originally last year, so if you’ve used them before — I’d also love to see how it went!)

Just hit reply and let me know. And if you have example images to share, I’d love to see them!

If I get some good examples, I’ll share them in a future newsletter!

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