Direct Instruction
Presentation
Flipcharts are a fantastic way to guide and help you keep the flow of your lesson moving. I tend to use flipcharts a lot because they give me the ability to plan ahead what I want to present to my students on the pages, and also allows me to include interactive activities if I choose to do so. Here is just one of many example lessons I have created based upon the BCPS curriculum.
Total Participation Strategies
Math Whiteboard Practice
Another way I use flipcharts in my classroom is for whole group practice. I like to have my students use whiteboards to answer the problems or sometimes I will prepare a practice paper and copy the problems onto the flipchart pages. By using the interactive board, it allows me to write much quicker and check in on my students rather than me having to sit close to my ELMO to complete the task. I prefer to use ActivInspire rather than PowerPoint because I have the ability to write right on the slides, whereas on PowerPoint that is not an option. Here is a flipchart I created for the first several lessons of our first unit in math. You can see how many opportunities I provided for my students to use whiteboards while also including problems directly from their math book so we could complete them together. My kids are engaged and involved in the lesson when they have opportunities to come to the board to show their work. Class Jeopardy
Another way to engage your whole class is to create a class Jeopardy game. This template is already created so that all the pages link accordingly. You could use this to review for a test, complete practice PARCC problems, or as a way to summarize a unit. |
Interactive Main/ Idea & Key Details Activity
In this flipchart, several students had the opportunity to engage in the lesson by coming to the board to identify and highlight certain parts of a text. During the sorting and multiple choice activities, I provided my students with basic pinch cards so that even though only one person came to the board at a time, they all were asked to participate in the lesson. Distributive Property of Multiplication
In the ActivInspire resource pack, there are virtual math tools and manipulatives. I use the grid paper background to show examples as my students are learning the Distributive Property of Multiplication. They have their grid paper in plastic sleeves with 2 colored markers, while I complete the same kind of task on the board using the pen and highlighter tools. This allows us to do as many or as little practice problems as needed. Again, I like how quickly I can show a problem using the flipchart page as opposed to doing a paper under the ELMO. Here is an example of how I have done this task: |