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💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

✅ Easy, no-tech formative assessment ideas you can use tomorrow

How do we know what students really know?

When we can check for understanding regularly, it helps us know what our students need more of (or less of).

That’s formative assessment. 

Find out what they know. Use it to guide instruction. Work your way through learning.

When we think of formative assessment many of us jump right to tech tools.

Kahoot. Quizizz. Google Forms. Quizzes in our learning management system.

Tech can help us make formative assessment engaging and quick.

But there are LOTS of options for no-tech formative assessment that are effective and fun.

Here are 5 of our favorites from our post Fun formative assessment: 12 easy, no-tech ideas you can use tomorrow

It’s part of our free EfficienTEACH project, designed to "teach better and save time for what matters most."

• ❓ Quiz Maker: Create a multiple choice question for the concept we just learned about. You need to have the question along with three incorrect answers and one correct answer. Note: Using the questions the students wrote, create a class Kahoot or Blooket to play the next day.

• 🧩 Word Puzzler: Choose an important word from our last lesson. Create a clue for the word to be used in a crossword puzzle. Note: Use Create Your Own Criss Cross Puzzle | Discovery Education Puzzlemaker to create your crossword puzzle for the class to use tomorrow.

• 🔁 Record, Rotate, Reveal: On your individual whiteboards record your answer or share your understanding about the topic we just learned about. When you are ready, rotate your whiteboard facing it down. When everyone is ready reveal your response by holding it up.

• 🐥 Tweet all about it!: In 280 characters or less summarize what we just learned about. Teachers: Use the Tweet for someone template and print copies of page #2.

• ✏️ Sketch Artist: Create a 30-60 second sketch, using only pencil, illustrating the concept we just learned about. No erasing, just sketch.

🗄 Template

🔗 Create your own Connections game!

Connections is a puzzle game where players have to find four groups of four items that share something in common from The New York Times.

🤓Here’s how it works:

1. Objective: Group 16 words into four mystery categories.

2. Gameplay:

   • You’ll see a 4x4 grid of words.

   • Your task is to organize them into four sets of four words by figuring out the themes that connect them.

   • Analyze the words carefully and identify your first thread.

   • Select four items at a time by tapping or clicking on the blocks containing the words.

   • You have until midnight to solve the puzzle, and you only get one attempt.

   • Groups can be related by type (e.g., hail, rain, sleet, snow) or rely on wordplay. You have four chances to get the whole puzzle right.

💡Example Word Groups:

Word Type Example: Ocean, lake, river, pond. The common theme? They’re all bodies of water.

Wordplay Example: Pencil, eraser, paper, sharpener. The connection? They’re all related to school supplies.

🧩Using this game in class

What if you wanted to create a connections game with words that are all related to earth science? Or your class is studying Ancient Greece and you want to spice up your vocabulary practice?

👍🏽Good news! There is a tool that allows you to create your own connections game using your own words!

• 🔗 Connections game generator.

👏🏾Even BETTER news! AI can help you create your words, groups and descriptions.

Here’s how:

• Adjust this prompt to fit your topic and class.

  • I teach ______. Please generate 16 words in groups of 4 that fit the topic of ______. Each group of 4 words should be connected in some way. List the groups from easiest to most difficult. On each line, provide the 4 words separated by commas. On the next line, provide a description of how the 4 words are connected.

• Go to ChatGPT, Microsoft CoPilot, Perplexity or Google Gemini and paste it in.

• Adjust as needed and type the words and category descriptions into the connections game generator.

• Share with your class through the link!

👋 How we can help

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1. Read one of my six books about meaningful teaching with tech.

2. Take one of our online courses about practical and popular topics in education.

3. Bring me to your school, district or event to speak. I love working with educators!