Flipgrid Ideas for Social Studies
I have Flipgrid fever and its only getting worse. I just can’t stop thinking of ways to use Flipgrid in the classroom! Here is my next installment of ideas perfect for Flipgrid ideas in the social studies classroom.
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Flipgrid is arguably one of the best apps of all time.
Flipgrid has so many layers of thinking it can uncover. At first view β it is a video response platform β but it is so much more, so layered, and so effective in helping teachers capture rich information about student learning and growth.π₯π
AND IT’S FREE for all teachers. Letβs take a lookβ¦
What is Flipgrid?
In simple terms and from the website, βA grid is where your students go to view your topics, record their responses and reply to their classmates. These grids can be open or locked.
β App smash with Chatter Pix:
Have kids take on the persona of a historical figure. Example: Have students make a grid for the first 10 Presidents – break them into a collaborative group to write an entertaining script for each president.
π Student owned personal grid:
To create a space where all students tell a story over time as a historical figure – or historical event.
π€ Use the thinking routine – I used to think…now I think:
Use this after a lesson to get at what students learned and what they now understand. Check out this post on thinking routines.
π€ Use the thinking routine – headlines:
To have students create a headline for a historical event – make sure the students explain why these chose this idea. Here is a LIST of other thinking routines you might use.
To help students create better responses consider using these tips created by 7th graders…but keep reading these tips get better!
π Three reasons I would:
Another great Flipgrid social studies idea is to have students give three reasons why they would:
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- Settle in one of the first colonies or provinces (for my Canadian friends)
- Do away with something in the Bill of Rights, Constitution, The G-3 was free trade agreement, etc
- Do away with or support the Right to Bear Arms – 2nd Amendment
- For the Fall of the Roman Empire – or end of any historical event, etc
π€ Succinct summary of the unit:
- Give a quick summary of a lesson or historical idea…this is where they learn to give an elevator pitch about a historical event or idea
β Oral exit ticket:
Three things I learned – or want to know more about after this lesson is a Flipgrid social studies idea that helps kids reflect on their learning and inform the teacher about what they actually learned..
π€ What would have happened ifβ¦
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- Germany won the war?
- There was not a second amendment
- The United States didn’t have the electoral college
π How to spot a…
Civil War Soldier, Crusader, Republican. Give a brief elevator pitch on what the characteristics of a particular historical figure are to show your understanding.
π₯΄ The turning point was…
Explain the turning point of an event or why an idea came to be:
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- The ERA
- The Suffragist movement
- Abolitionist
- Indian Removal Act
βοΈ Guess my location game:
Give three clues tos ee if other students can guess using the reply feature – “I am a state with water, mountains and a democratic voting record.”
πͺThis is My Personal Favorite Social Studies Idea:
π₯Dear Diary:
Have students use something like Chatter pix again to share the different viewpoints of people during a historical event. Example – The Great Chicago Fire – tell viewpoint of the fireman, the famous cow, a woman with a child seeing the flames for the first time, a banker about to lose all the cash at his bank….etc. All of them are on the grid for others to watch and metacognitively compare answers and to ask questions.
π Flipgrid debates:
Students can debate each other using the response and then reply feature.
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