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Every student is able to communicate their answers to the teacher

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Data is collected from PLICKER & GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Names transfered from Google Classroom

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Export Data as CSV (Spreadsheet)

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Peer Assessment (Assessment Literacy)

Self Assessment

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Google Classroom setup

Assign Plicker card number for every one of your students for the period they have you ( or index number)

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Laminate Plicker cards for durability purposes

Staple or tape Plicker card to student folders for your class for quick and easy access

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Plickers magnet assessment, or "plagnets" for short, have been taking the Physical Education community by storm these past few months. Magnet assessment as an idea came from Joey Feith ( PhysicalEducator.com), and he got the idea from teachers using SOLO Taxonomy where students track their learning via cognitive understanding rubrics. Students would put initials on chart paper, or place sticky notes as they advanced through the learning mini-objectives or targets. Joey decided to replace sticky notes with magnets, which was a wonderful idea! I fell in love with using the magnets, and my students were never more engaged than when they took control of their learning progressions.

However, the trouble was collecting the data (either for report cards or just for tracking student progress). I decided to shrink Plickers assessment cards (which have been used for years as formative assessment checks) and attach them to magnets so that I could collect the learning evidence easily during each class. Students simply place the side up (ABDC, 1234, or words like Joey uses) that matches their learning throughout class (depending on the design you choose). It generally ties into standards-based grading or "developing, almost there, got it, and wow." You then scan and archive for evidence of learning.

The plagnets can be used on magnetic whiteboards, metal doors, metal sheets command stripped to a wall, or even with magnetic paint on walls and other surfaces. They even sell rolled up magnetic sheets that can be used as portable systems. The plagnets can be created many ways, from easily printing onto magnetic paper and cutting out to shape, all the way to crafting them onto round discs and gluing magnets onto the back with mod podge or lamination on the front.

They can be used like traditional Plickers cards for formative checks for understanding, or as exit tickets to assess student learning or feelings about class that day. But to me, the real power of plagnets is unlocked with the use of self-guided progressions where students gain autonomy, mastery and purpose in tracking their own learning. An example video can be found here where students went through jump rope progressions using ninja belt gamification (including giving students a choice in their path to success).

: https://youtu.be/OWsekW2JTWo

This is my 45-minute webinar on all things plagnets from the online PhysEdSummit 2017: https://youtu.be/1FqbGrt2anc

For those short on time, here's a short 2-3 minute tutorial to get you started: Here's my short tutorial video:

Here's a link to our global shared PE Google Drive Plickers Magnet folder for various designs and usage ideas: goo.gl/ZssDis ​

The above photo is a plagnet design from Tanner Roos, allowing teachers to use A-D, 1-4, and the words as an all-in-one option.

Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about getting started with plagnets!

Also check out my new online Professional Development course called Gamification in Physical Education. Learn how to maximize student engagement with gamification, use gamification as an assessment tool, and create your own gamified activities, lessons, units, or even full-year themes.
About the Author:
Mike Ginicola is currently in his 20th year teaching Physical Education and Health at Nichols Elementary in Stratford, CT. He was recently the 2016 recipient of the CT PTA Teacher of the Year Award. He also won a CTAHPERD outstanding program award for flipped dance learning via his YouTube channel. He likes to travel and present on PE activities and current education trends. Mike loves to innovate and use as much technology as possible. Follow Mike on Twitter @PhysEdDepot and also his P.E. YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/nicholswinterfest

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Plickers magnet assessment, or "plagnets" for short, have been taking the Physical Education community by storm these past few months. Magnet assessment

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This post features ideas and ways to use Plickers in your class. No matter what subject or grade level you teach, the FREE Plickers app is an educational tool you can use for quick assessment and fun review.

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What are Plickers?

I love using technology in my classroom! Especially when it helps me save time and make learning fun.

Technology shoots up the engagement factor and makes assessing learning a little bit easier.

Which is why I love using Plickers.

Plickers is a FREE app and online service that allows the use of technology without each individual student needing an iPAD or device. All you need is a teacher computer, a way to project your image, and a phone.

How to Get Started with Plickers

Step 1: Set up your free account on Plickers (which is super easy).

Step 2: Plug your students' names into the system. No one else will see this so their identities are protected.

Step 3: Create lessons in folders that stay in your 'library' until you are ready to use them.

Step 4: Print your Plickers (QR Codes FREE from their site) and play!

Setting Up Your Classroom Plickers

Here is a snapshot of my main library page on Plickers. As you can see, I have organized folders for the lessons I've uploaded. I also use Plickers for different grade levels.

Here's the magic of Plickers: the system creates QR codes for each student you assign. These are numbered and track student responses.

I print my Plicker QR Codes on my all-time favorite card stock and laminate those babies with my favorite at home laminator (just in case your school doesn't have a laminating machine).

As an extra measure of happiness, I hot-glue them on thick popsicle sticks making it easier for students to hold up their Plicker when they answer a question.

WARNING: Laminating your Plickers could cause a glare like the one in the photo below; this has never been a problem for me scanning them with my phone, but some teachers have had problems with it. Just a heads up!

OR you can spray your Plickers with this matte spray. You can get it almost anywhere and it takes away the glare!

How to Organize Your Plickers

Each week, I use my student helper job system here to assign a student to pass out, take up, and keep the Plickers organized.

Then they live in one of my file folders where they fit neatly and are easy to manage.

I type in questions for lessons during my lesson planning and display one question at a time for students to answer.

The app on my phone shows me who answered correctly or incorrectly-but this information isn't displayed for students to see. (Can I get an amen for quick informal assessment!?!

As you know, I have taught different grade levels over the years (not by choice...it's a long story that you can read about here). Every grade level or subject area I've taught works with Plickers.

Ways to Use Plickers in Your Class

Math:

Plug in math equations for students to solve (works with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division-even long division)

Add images of geometric shapes and even clocks for geometry and time review

Ask about math vocabulary words to match with definitions

You can show pictures of fractions for a quick review or assessment

Images or equations with money that students need to solve

Put up pictures of objects for students to match with its beginning or ending sound

Use the True/False feature to ask if a word is spelled correctly

Display a word that DOES NOT follow the particular phonics rule you're learning for that week or unit (the English language is filled with rule-breaker words!) then have students choose the description of WHY that word doesn't follow the phonics rule

I am BIG on digging deeper into learning to discover the WHY behind a concept. I don't just want my students memorizing 'stuff.'
They need to KNOW the reason behind the spelling rule, phonics lesson, math rule, etc. So I incorporate WHY questions in my Plickers lessons to give my kiddos a chance to think deeper.

Even MORE Ideas for Using Plickers in Your Class

Grammar:

Ask students to identify the preposition or prepositional phrase in a sentence

Display a sentence with an underlined word and have students identify its part of speech also use Plickers with my Daily Practice Grammar Strips.

Related Posts: Fun and Easy Ways to Teach Grammar How I Save Time Grading Student Work with ZipGrade
Reading Comprehension:

Use it as a faster form of K-W-L by having students answer True/False questions about a story or about its background information

Review genre details by matching characteristics of each genre you display

Complete story review by posting multiple choice questions about whole class stories/novels read

Here's a post with more goodies on reading comprehension in the upper elementary classroom.
Social Studies & Science:

Learn and review geography by putting up images of landforms for students to match with its correct name

Practice state capitals , state shapes, and abbreviations

Learn state abbreviations with multiple choice matching

Use Plickers to reinforce social studies and science vocabulary

More Innovative Ideas for Using Plickers in Your Class

I feature facts about my kiddos like their favorite color, food, hobbies, etc. for other students to choose the correct answer. This builds community by showing that getting to know each other is important

We begin using Plickers right away to learn each other's names. I post their pictures up and have students match it with the correct name.

Review class procedures and policies during back to school or after long holiday breaks.

So how do you use Plickers in your classroom? Have any tips or tricks I didn't mention. Please share them below!
So let's get better with using Plickers together!

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This post features ways to use Plickers in your class that can be used across grade levels. Plickers is FREE for teachers to use!

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Plickers is an awesome assessment tool that you can use to quickly assess your students knowledge through multiple choice questions. In this post I will show you how to use Plickers in your classroom and show you a demonstration of how I have used Plickers this year in my Physical Education Classes.

When using Plickers you can give a quick question and record student answers in a couple of minutes without taking out any paper or pencil

How awesome is that?

The video below will give you an idea of how I introduced Plickers for the first time and how you can use it to assess kids. It takes a little longer the first time you try it, but after your students understand the procedures and how the cards work the whole process can be done very quickly.

This year I jumped on the Plickers wagon and decided to see what all the buzz was about. My conclusion is that it's a really awesome way to gather data and do quick assessments in Physical Education without getting out paper and pencil.
SO you think you wanna try it? To get setup you will first need to download the App for Free
Plickers is a free App that you can can download to your device, just do a quick search in the App Store
After you download the App, you simply go to www.Plickers.com and register a free account. You can do this on your device, but it's a lot easier to do from a computer.
After you register your account online you can create test questions, enter class names and student rosters and get familiar with the setup. I thought about making a setup video, but another awesome PhysEd Teacher Ben Pirillo has already put together a great setup tutorial, check it out below if you need some help and give him a follow:

The Plickers company recommends buying their matte laminated cards, or printing your own on card stock, by going to their website and downloading the free Plickers PDF Cards. You can try laminating your own, but if it's a normal laminator the light reflection will make it hard for your device to scan the cards. I use the matte laminated Plickers cards from Amazon, you can check them out So far I haven't had any issues scanning cards and I can scan a class of 25 students very quickly (10-20 seconds).

I also use a pocket chart organizer to store my cards on the back of my storage closet door so that they can easily be accessed by students anytime by simply opening up the door. You can check out the Pocket Chart Organizer . My cards were a little droopy so I used a hot glue gun to put some glue spots in between the cards on the organizer which has helped improve the way that it holds the cards. See the picture below:

I knew that with double classes I would need 50 cards and there were only 40 cards in the pack that I purchased from Amazon, so as you can see in the next picture below, I printed my own cards on cardstock for last 10 cards (#s 41-50). You can also see that I organize my cards according to my students "Home Base Spots" with the stickers signifying their assigned number and letter.

You can always just ask your students the question, but I think putting a visual up is a good call and will help your kids process the answer they think is correct. If you are doing a true/false question, asking without a visual is probably fine, but with 4 choices it can be tough for even an adult to visualize all the answers, so if possible throw it up on a TV, Projector or a White Board. You can see an example of one of question visuals is used in the video at the beginning of the video in this post below (we were doing a pre-test before our fitness unit).

I know there are 6 questions in the download, but I wouldn't recommend doing more than 1-3 questions per class. I think ideally Plickers can be used as a tool to ask your students an exit question and receive some great feedback to help you as the teacher understand where your students stand with content knowledge. It's a very informative way to check for understanding. I know that I've been surprised at some of the results and it's really informed my instruction. For example see the results from one of my classes below:

If almost half of the class missed a question, that's a great cue that you need to review it and make sure kids understand the content - I speak from experience 😉

Check Out Plagnets

If you're thinking you like the idea of Plickers, I'd recommend checking out Plagnets, which are magnets and Plickers combined. I will refer you to 2 Phys Ed All Stars because they know way more about Plagnets than me:

Are you using Plickers?

If so - leave some advice in the comments, If you're not - Try them out, they are awesome!

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