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I created this mind map to introduce the elements of plot. Students can use it before reading our novel,The Hobbit, to learn vocabulary. They may revisit each section to add events as we read. This will help students organize information visually and better understand the story structure before completing written responses.

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Brief Explanation of Classroom Use

I used Popplet to create a mind map on multiplication strategies for my 4th-grade math class. The mind map helps students visualize different ways to solve multiplication problems and understand how the strategies are connected. During instruction, I would use the map as a reference while introducing each strategy. Students could then create their own mind maps to solve multiplication problems and explain which strategy they chose and why. This activity encourages critical thinking, organization of ideas, and deeper mathematical understanding.

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My lesson plan is vocabulary lessons for the story The Magician's Apprentice. This Popplet is a brainstorm of what students know about magicians before we start going over the vocabulary words for the story.

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This is mostly an informational slide on what I think a healthy lifestyle should include.  

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This is mostly an informational slide on what I think a healthy lifestyle should include.  

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My Spanish 2 students do a presentation each year after they learn how to talk about their daily routines in Spanish. They have to create a visual to use as they present to the class. The visual should only include pictures of activities they do throughout their day. This poplet could be a template for students to insert pictures of what they plan to talk about, a few in the morning, afternoon, and evening.

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I created this mind map for students to use during a lesson on identifying main ideas and supporting details. Students have to read a passage and pull out three supporting details on the post it notes (how it looks, how it moves, where it lives). Then on the lines below jot down phrases from the text about each main idea.

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I envision using Popplet to organize, and even aid in presenting, my students Madrid unit research project. They heavily research an important person, place, and part of history connected to Madrid. They do write a short essay for each of those 3 topics. However, they then present their 3 pieces of information to 2 other people in the class who take notes as they listen. I thought this Popplet would be a nice way for students to organize their thoughts and aid them in their presentation (since they can’t use their essay). This would also be a nice visual for the students that are listening to help their understanding of the topic.

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This is a mindmap that would be used in Algebra 2 to review all of the different ways of factoring a polynomial.  Students could use this diagram and the examples as a study tool.  Additionally, I have an idea where I would leave the top boxes and have students fill in the type of factoring and an example of their own.  That would allow this to become a review assignment for them rather than just a study tool.

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I created a mindmap of the Floss Rule that I teach in my small groups. At first, I created the mindmap with words filled in the blue boxes, as a teaching tool. Then I decided to erase the example words so I could use this as a quick assessment tool. I could assign this Popplet to students, and they would fill in the blue boxes with example words of each pattern to show me that they fully understand the phonics rule.

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In fourth grade we learn about the five regions of The United States. I can assign this to students for them to get familiar with the states in this region. They can use maps from our social studies book to write the names of the 11 states in this region.

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Currently, we are learning about different Landmarks and Monuments found around the United States. The mind map that I created represents something a student could make as a part of a project, researching some monuments and places around the United States and giving me a little more information about those places.

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I will use this mind map to frame students' big idea understanding of the purposes and meaning of each statistical measure that will be taught in the statistics unit, especially focusing on differentiating between two main categories of statistical measures (color coded): measures of center and measures of variability. We would work together as a whole group at the end of each lesson to add to this mind map to frame their conceptual understanding of each newly learned measure and where it aligns in comparison to the purposes of the other previously learned measures. I could also have each student make their own, importing or creating their own images that they feel will support their individual understanding and recall of each measure.

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I created a back to school get to know you activity. I used myself as a template and then could have the students create one similar to mine, including a few pictures. Students could share them in front of the class or I could break them into small groups or everyone could just take time to explore each other‘s creations in an App like Padlet.

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My mind map can be used to introduce Spain’s artists, their works, styles and image examples. The students could also use this as a model to do their own research on the artists and present their findings.

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I have my 7th graders do an activity where they show me 3 things they have learned about various topics. I’ve used the program LucidChart in the past and thought Popplet was most similar in that I could add pictures to the graphic organizer. In this case, students would tell me 3 things they remember learning about care and handling of their iPad, settings on their iPad, and email etiquette.

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I used popplet to create a map to help students map out a road trip project. We study the regions of the USA during the second half of the year. The final project in social studies is mapping out a road trip that goes through every region. Each student must pick a state in each region and a landmark to visit. This would be a super easy way for kids to begin their initial draft of their road trip.

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I would use this as a tool for students to organize their plans for creating a ceramic project of their choice. This would guide conversation that would take place with each student before their chosen project is started.

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I would use this mindmap during the first days of school to get to know my students. I think it would be a great way to engage the students while using technology! Plus, it is very simple to use!

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My first grade class just had a presentation by Penn State Health about healthy eating through MyPlate. To check students understanding of my plate and what 5 food groups you should eat with your meals, students will type in the 5 food groups in 5 different sticky notes. Bonus points if they match the food groups with the right color like MyPlate. Just how I have it.

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In my math class for geometry there is a lot of vocabulary that they need to learn. I enjoy creating different organizers for each student to work on and be able to visualize what they are learning. With this iBrainstorm organizer, I am able to take the different types of triangles, and organize them by their sides and angles. I would either have cut outs of each triangle for them to match within each box or I would have them draw it in each box! This allows me to see how well they are understanding each vocab term.

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This iBrainstorm organizer will be used in my classroom for my students when they are working on their persuasive writing assignments. Each year, our first graders choose one of three local locations to go on a field trip to. They are required to give three supporting details and reasons as to why we should go to the location they chose and not the other two locations. This organizer can be used to write in or to draw pictures just to get some ideas down. From there, I usually allow my students to choose 3 of the 4 supporting details that they feel the strongest about and have the most detail for. They enjoy having more options than needed. I think they feel as if they are doing less work when they can cross one off at the end! I think this is a great way for students to get their ideas down before writing! 

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iBrainstorm - Persuasive Writing Planning 

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iBrainstorm - Persuasive Writing Planning 

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Using the iBrainstorm app students will be challenged to think about the many factors that contribute to overall health.

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I created this Popplet as a starting point for students to brainstorm how they can make a healthier them. The can be creative and add specific examples of foods they will eat or exercises they will do.

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The file I uploaded is an example of an activity students would do in my classroom using Popplet. The top of the PDF explains the activity to the students, and at the bottom, I provided a screenshot of what a student's work might look like.

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To help my students brainstorm ideas for their poetry assignment in which they write from the perspective of a lost toy, they can follow these helpful steps to create a brief outline for the plot line before moving onto the drafting stage. Poetry is not an area they are confident in writing, simply because our curriculum allows for more analytical writing, rather than creative. With the help of some brainstorming steps, this assignment will hopefully go much more smoothly.

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I am having kids create a mind map of the different animals they would like to do their research project on and then choose one.

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In our 2nd grade ELA text, we read a story about two sisters who played soccer. While some kids had some prior knowledge about soccer, many kids had very little knowledge about positions and terminology. Our curriculum required a KWL chart. I used Popplet Lite to create one quickly. It was easier to read than my usual chart paper ones. ;) It very easy to change the headers to different colors and the organization made it easier for the kids to read. Because you can zoom out, you never run out of room!!

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This mind map can be used to point out students favorite exercises that they can perform outside of class.  The other use for the classroom environment that this can help with is showing other students different exercises and stretches that they might not participate in on a daily basis.  I could always continue a follow up project with the older students to research new exercises/stretches to try within the curriculum and have them explain what muscles they are working/stretching and what benefits come from doing them consistently.

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Students will use this as a template to gather & document information prior to creating a poster on their chosen drug (from a provided list)

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This map is something I could use in my classroom to help students learn and break down the Federalist Party in my APUSH class. The different categories help highlight the various viewpoints of political parties during this time

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My students always have a hard time remembering the definitions for rhetorical methods and devices. This is an example map activity in which the students associate pictures with the definitions of the methods.

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Students will find and comment on stats graphs that are good or bad. They will have to explain why a stat graph is good or bad and find their own to upload.

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When I assign my 11th grade research paper and the guidelines, the topic is pretty much up to the students however, it needs to be a controversial current event and they write an argumentative paper. I believe that their use of this brainstorming guide and my guided questions will help them narrow down their research topic.

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I like to show my orchestra students the relationships of the parts of music and their sub themes and how they come together in a piece of music for performance.

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Venn diagram of Chebyshev vs. Empirical Rules. Comparing the usages of each.

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Students will use this Popplet to describe how Charles Darwin came to create the theory of evolution. I created the boxes and they will fill them in with the information from class. There is a box that has the directions right in the Popplet. They can draw the lines to connect the boxes together.

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I planned to use this as a template for students to fill in as we go through our unit on polygons. Last year, our students struggled to classify shapes in all ways possible. By setting it up as a hierarchy for them to fill in as we learn about the shapes, I believe they will be more successful in classifying them correctly and seeing why a square is also a rectangle and parallelogram.

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In 4th grade my students learn about living organisms, energy, and the transfer of energy in 4th grade science. I think this Popplet that I made would be a fun and interactive way for my students to practice and visualize the transfer of energy within a food chain. I would have students slide the photos of different living organisms onto the energy transfer map and try to place them in the correct spot. Then at the end of this activity, we would go over the answer key as a class. I could even use this as a formative assessment as well. -Alissa

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I do a conversation about revolutions and always look for differences and similarities. This mind map will look at the French and Russian Revolutions and give a visual on the two. This could be a great tool to allow students to add to, or create their own visual guide.

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Prometheus Painting/Text Compare and Contrast

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Prometheus Painting/Text Compare and Contrast

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I chose to create an assignment that has my students use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast how Prometheus is depicted in the text we read, and in a classical painting of Prometheus I show them. The students will then use their Vin diagram to develop a short compare and contrast essay response. What I have created is what I hope the students Venn diagram will look like.

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I chose to create a resource for students to refer back to when converting decimals,fractions, and percents. This provides the students a step by step and example. This could be provided to students by the teacher or students could create this as each skill is introduced.

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I decided to create a Venn Diagram using IBrainstorm. I recently had my students complete a Leaf lab that helped to determine why leaves change colors in the fall. Students collected different color leaves and placed them in different containers with rubbing alcohol. After 30 minutes, they put a coffee filter in the container. The next day we observed the results. The coffee filters absorbed the leaf colors so each filter had different colors.

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In the beginning of the school year, I have the students develop a vision statement. The class starts with a question of: Why do we come to school? Once we have a few answers on the board,  students vote or rate, which one they think is the best answer or what they agree with. Then we break that down to find the language and the reasoning to defend that ‘why’.
Next, we use all of the language generated to form a statement; then we take this vision statement and post it in the classroom.

We recite our vision statement, as a class, as a reminder of why we come to school. I am then able to use this to develop classroom expectations, procedures, etc..

I like the idea of doing this digitally as opposed to on chart paper or on the board.

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I plan on using iBrainstorm with my 5th grade health students to introduce the health triangle and the domains of health.  I really like the easy iPad collaboration feature that iBrainstorm offers and hope to use that feature with groups of students as well.  I created some examples of what students might create.

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I created a simple mind map that students would use during our Geometry Unit. Geometry tends to be vocab heavy and the more I can expose students to the vocab and get them talking about the words, the easier time they have with memorizing the meanings. In this case, I would teach about the 4 different types of angles and use this as a review. Students would be given time to complete the chart independently. Then they would join with a learning partner to compare their mind maps and add any missing details. The next day we would complete the same mind map as a whole class and display it until the unit was over.

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Students will often come to the counselor indicating that they are being bullied without full understand of what bullying is. We all have times when we do not make the best decisions and may be rude or unkind to another person. This flowchart helps student identify whether or not they are being bullied or if it may be something else and what to do in each scenario.

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I teach 12th grade health, and one of the topics we talk about is binge drinking and it’s consequences. When I talk about it, I normally draw a mind map on the board about the consequences of binge drinking. I then draw arrows and talk about how those consequences can trickle down into worse consequences. This exactly what the mind map app does but digital. I love using this app. I want my students to make their own mind map first, then come back and create our own map as a whole class. This is so easy to uses and I’m so excited to have my students try it.

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I teach 5th grade math and science. Students often struggle with knowing what to do when faced with a difficult word problem in math. If they don’t know what to do right away, they don’t really try. This is a resource that could be printed out that students could refer to if they get stuck on how to work through a difficult problem. It works them through each step of problem solving and things that they can do within each of those steps.

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This mindmap is something I can print and have displayed in my classroom for student to reference when they are writing their TDA (text-dependent analysis). Students write a TDA per marking period, and they are expected to write a TDA on their PSSA’s, so this mindmap would be a great tool for my kiddos to look at to make sure they are hitting all parts of their TDA. Another way I could use this in my classroom is to have kids actually do their own mindmap so they can remember all parts of a TDA, and even have my students collaborate on a mindmap as well.

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For this activity I created an assignment for students in 9-12 Health. Students will create a mind map about their own perspective of what they believe contributes to a person’s levels of overall health and wellness. I included an example of a mind-map that I created for a nutrition unit. This will be used as an introductory lesson to our elective Health course.

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In my Cooking Lite & Easy course, I begin the class by having the students think of all the different examples of each one of these cooking methods. This mindmapping tool will be use as a resource for students to help them distinguish the difference of the three methods.

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I created an Art Elements Review Mind Map using iBrainstorm. This image will be projected onto the smart board and students will write/add info under each element. If need be I'll add more "notes" to each category as we move along through the lesson.

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We spend most of the last marking period comparing the New England middle and southern colonies. This would be my end of the unit and review before my kids to get final. I would post this on my projector whiteboard, and then I will give the kids expo markers. It will be their job to list as many characteristics as they could about each colony within the region drawn lines connecting, which colonies share similar characteristics.

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For this activity, my sixth grade students would work collaboratively to generate as many themes as they can from a shared story. Students will use the "Universal Themes" listed at the top to categorize their theme statements learned from the story. Students will then use the map to choose one theme statement to write about in their theme essays.

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In many aspects of each of the different branches of Earth Science they all are interconnected with various concepts that affect each branch differently. With this simple iBrainstorm I would be asking them to show the connection points and specifically which branch it connects with. In the middle they would be listing any events or any ideas that connect all 4 branches.

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Grapeseed Phonogram tch assessment made with Popplet

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In each unit of Grapeseed, we introduce new letters or digraphs/trigraphs. One of our trigraphs for unit 11 is tch. Each day we go over the sound(s) and read a list of examples as a group. Words that feature our letters and digraphs/trigraphs are embedded into our poems, stories, and songs for the unit. Each letter and digraph/trigraph is also featured in a video with Mr. Lineman and many examples of various words with those spellings are shown.  I think Popplet would be a great way to assess student understanding of these different phonograms. Here I made an example of an assessment where students would need to brainstorm four words that have tch in them.

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Gifted - Factory Farming vs Family Farming Article

My 5th grade students read an article about factory and family farming.  If I had this knowledge two months ago, I could have had them create the Popplet.  This would have been an excellent tool to help them organize their thoughts for our discussion, and I could have used it as a formative assessment.  Students could have also used this for a persuasive writing piece.  We had a Socratic Seminar discussion on which is the best type of farming.  Students completed a Type III writing task.

I really can see myself using this.

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I asked my students to write four things about themselves that they didn’t think their classmates would know about them.  I got some interesting responses.  Some are things that I would have thought they would have known about each other making it easy to figure out which student the clues were talking about and others just made me laugh.

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Marianne Talhelm - Popplet - GrapeSEED Green

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Marianne Talhelm - Popplet - GrapeSEED Green

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This is an example of a Popplet I would use in an oral language ESL class I teach. We study a color for each unit - we read a book that is actually a song we sing as well, and there are items in the book that are the color we are studying. I only have one iPad and so I could see myself using this when I work with students individually. Right now, I see one student individually so we could do this. I would start the Popplet by typing the question in the center. The student would then fill out the bubbles around it with green items from the book. We could take a screenshot and send to her family on ClassDojo to show her learning as well. Marianne

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In APCSA one of my favorite assignments is to have students create a "custom object" in Java. Usually I have them hand in a hand written accounting of it's state, behavior, and identity and then I have them actually code it. I will have them use the template I took a picture of (also at app.popplet.com/#/p/7384938) to create their own mindmap of their custom object.

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This is a popplet I made based on a story I read with my Kindegarteners. There are different food characters in the story and this shows the students which ones are fruits and which ones are vegatables. They can pull this up on their chromebook and even watch the story in video format. I liked how easy this was to use and will definitely use this in the future!

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I would use this MyPlate popplet in Health class to review MyPlate and the 5 food groups, the recommended serving sizes for each group, and examples of foods from each food group as well. This popplet can be used in a variety of ways, but one way I had in mind was to use it as an assessment for the students to properly identify each food group, examples, and serving size that go along with each one.

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Ideally, I would like to use the Popplet app and this file layout whenever students are using the Engineering Design Process in my classroom. Not only will this layout and app allow me to track a students progress, students can add a photo once each step is completed.    This strategy will also ensure a student will not skip a step of the Engineering Design Process, which in the end will lead to higher quality student work/better solutions and improved problem solving skills.

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I would use this in Health class as a review of the 6 essential nutrients. This would be for student assessment and knowledge of the nutrients.  The students would add several sticky notes to each nutrient explaining what each provides for the body.  An example maybe which nutrients provide calories.

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I thought this would be a good way to initially review the prefix re-. I could write the prefix and the meaning in the center then write one or two sticky notes as examples. Then they could write some. We’d write the word beginning with re-, then the definition of the word, then either a sentence or draw a picture. I found it difficult to do the pen/writing and am wondering how this would work. If they use a sticky note, they can’t draw a picture.   Then I wrote a couple words and would want them to fill in the definition and sentence/picture - are they able to do that if we are connected to the wifi and both have an ipad? Kaitlin mentioned using Kami on the Chromebooks (thanks, Kaitlin!) - since our district doesn’t have ipads, perhaps that is how they would need to do it.  I could also see this being a good group review…I could display it on the smart board and they could tell me what to type. I found it fun and keep thinking of more things to do with it…I just don’t know how to do a few things.

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This mindmap goes along with the book we are reading in our Newcomer ESL Science class, Objects in Motion. Each sub-category is a chapter topic in the book and the empty boxes are there for them to take notes on the book and pull out the important details to support Main Idea and Details. They would be able to open this in Kami on their Chromebooks and fill in the boxes with words or draw pictures, or even search for images to drop in the boxes as well.

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I am going to use this to help students work through social conflicts with an open perspective and empathetic mindset.

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Last year I started to emphasize collaboration in my classroom. I sprinkled in activities throughout the semester that pushed my students to collaborate. We had discussions at the beginning of the semester about what collaboration is and how I will be judging whether effective collaboration is happening. My idea is that mind maps would help students think through the aspects of collaboration a little better than just generating a list as they can start with a few key ideas and then build off of those to get into the specifics. Not only would this be more of a thought provoking activity,  but we could compare what they came up with to my mind map and add to/edit it to create a definition we all agree on…thus demonstrating collaboration.

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One thing we learn about in third grade are character traits. This is an example of an activity I could have my students complete. They could select a character from a story we were working on and identify different character traits that go along with the character. I would give a minimum of the number of character traits students should list.

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This is a very simple Popplet that I would use for homework to review vocabulary. Students would be tasked with completing each categories with a verb, a noun or an adjective in French with their meaning in English. They would need 10 words per category, then the next day in class, with a partner, they will have to construct sentences.

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I worked with my principal this past year to create an official referral process for teachers who have concerns regarding student’s speech and language abilities.  We are a private school and do not have an IEP Process like a public school.  We wanted to make it more clear and streamlined so that all concerns were addressed. I distributed this information at the end of the year in an email with numbered steps, but I liked the idea of making a Popplet to make it more visual and clear for people to follow the steps/flow.  I am planning to distribute this to teachers as a follow up to use for referrals this school year.

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I like the idea of using this for classroom staff.  Tthey can put their own ideas, questions or needs here. I can add things and then Share a screen shot with our PaTTAN consultants. This will allow them to see what they should focus on during their visits. This visual is much more concise than a lengthy email. This was a very easy tool.I see this being very helpful for staff or for getting my ideas out during IEP writing

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My students don’t have iPads. So I can’t have them make a project like this. However, I will use the app to create fact sheets or study guides for various subjects. Here I made one to go along with our science unit about the sun.

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I plan on using this as an example for students to create a mind map on mammal facts. 

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At the beginning of each year we focus on the seasons and how seasons and time of day can affect the length of and direction of your shadow. I thought Popplet would be a great way for students to map out some of the characteristics of the different seasons and how that affects the sun’s position and ultimately their shadows. Popplet’s collaboration tools would allow each student to be assigned a different season.

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When I have students who cannot participate in P.E. I have an assignment called "On the Sidelines Report." Students would list all activities we complete and then include and explain the constraint underneath each activity. A constraint would be something such as, "the first pass is free."

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This Popplet was created to supplement an introductory lecture on Aristotle’s rhetorical appeals.

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This is a Popplet I created to review mean, median, and mode with my students.

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I used Popplet to create a review of human inheritance patterns: includes description, examples in humans and pictures

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This is a popplet designed to help my student brainstorm about their farm animal projects.

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This is a Popplet I created to review landforms go Egypt with my class at the beginning of our unit.

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I think iBrainstorm would be a good way to review figurative language. Students could fill it out or find specific examples.

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I would use this as a review after teaching the elements of plot. Students could click and drag the definition that matches with the part of plot as a quick checkup!  This was made using Popplet Lite.

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Jamestown Survival Plan   I used this Popplet with my students last year as part of our Colonial America unit.  The students used it as a mindmapping/brainstorming activity before writing their final survival plan.

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Jamestown Survival Plan   I used this Popplet with my students last year as part of our Colonial America unit.  The students used it as a mindmapping/brainstorming activity before writing their final survival plan.

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Small group warm-up activity - Students will take turns sorting the pictures into the correct column. Students will say the name of each picture and listen for the vowel sound. They will move the picture to the correct column.