| Subject | Ideas for using a wiki in class |
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Math |
* Students can share situations where they have used math in their everyday life. This may branch their thinking of why math is important! Examples could be using fractions when cutting up a pizza or cooking. * Students could provide step by step procedures, along with graphic illustrations, to help tutor other students on concepts being learned. Perhaps they could list out the steps in adding or subtracting fractions using LCM to find common denominators. Students could learn new ways to think about it by reading other students accounts. |
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Science |
· Students could write about their findings to certain experiments, walking through the scientific process. This would include going from materials needed to data collected to conclusions drawn. Perhaps they could compare their findings with another school that did a similar experiment. · Students could create a glossary of science terms as they learn them. This could include graphic illustrations and where you can see them in everyday life. An example would be learning about communities and listing examples of consumers vs. producers. |
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Social Studies |
· Travel brochure of something you are researching. Example would be creating a brochure of the Middle, Northern and Southern colonies before the Revolutionary war. This could include what they grew for crops, main ways of earning a living, where they lived, what their religion was like, etc. This would help illustrate the differences between these three regions. · Students could take a position for a debate and argue their points. Examples could be whether to be a Patriot or a Loyalist to King George the Third at the time of the Revolutionary war. Seeing other’s pieces might motivate them to change their stance!· Students could collaborate with classrooms around the world to put a multicultural spin on learning! Students from Frederick Classrooms could post ideas on what it’s like to grow up in MD while kids from other states or even countries could tell about their traditions, customs, etc. |
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Language Arts |
· Book talks about different books. Students could add their own ideas after reading the same book. Might be a great way to get students connecting and thinking about their reading!· Creating a story where each student adds a couple lines. The end result would be very humorous as students would feed off each other. Criteria might include that students use their Word of the Days, adjectives or synonyms for the word that is not allowed to be used (in my classroom GOOD or SAID).· Creating a classroom dictionary of our word of the days to include a sentence. Others could add words they frequently use in their own classrooms! |
There’s a wide variety of ideas in which Wikis can be used across grade levels to provide students with the opportunities to use technology as well as share their ideas with other students. Imagine the modeling that could go on as far as writing, communication and research are concerned! It gives students the capability to have control of their own learning and the authority to teach each other in a collaborative effort.
The following provide examples of Wikis in use by companies and classrooms!
