PLICKERS!

Plickers are individual cards that have unique QR cards for each students. Questions can be inserted into the Plickers website or app. These questions would be multiple choice or true/false. Students read the question, select their answer, and how up their card with their answer on the top. A teacher can scan those cards using their smartphone. Students receive a check once their answer has been recorded. Teachers can see immediately whether a student's answer was correct or incorrect. Additionally, these results can be show to the room by individual students or as a class.

Plickers was the technology tool of the week in my classroom. While learning about text structures, my students struggled. As a way to provide interactive practice of the first three structures we taught, I created a Plickers lesson. I developed 7 multiple choice questions that included paragraphs with a variety of text structures: description, comparison, and chronological. I provided students with a hard copy of the questions that were used to practice identifying key words for each structures. The interactivity Plickers provided was helpful in keeping students on task. Additionally, the immediate feedback guided discussion and help to show improvement as the lesson went on.

My students absolutely LOVE Plickers. It keeps them engaged, and provides them with excitement to see if they were all able to determine the correct answer. It is a flexible tool that can be used in a variety of content areas.