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10 Ways to Wrap Up Your Lesson

Michele Haiken July 17, 2023 Blog , Differentiate Better , Engage Better , Lesson Plan Better , Reflect Better

• Teachers should gather students for reflection and check understanding in the last few minutes of class to ensure everyone met the objective and address any confusion.
• Ten favorite ways to wrap up a lesson include exit tickets, 3-2-1 summaries, sentence-phrase-word reflections, stop and jot activities, captioning visuals, AEIOU reflections, rock-paper-scissors reflections, What’s In the Cards reflection protocol, quiz games, and $2.00 summaries.
• Closure activities should be meaningful, allowing students to review key points, draw conclusions, and demonstrate their knowledge.

Engaging Ways to Wrap Up Your Lesson

How many times do you get to the end of class and the bell rings, students pour out of the classroom, and you do not even know if everyone met the objective and who might still have some confusion? Teachers need to be more purposeful in gathering students together the last 5-10 minutes of class to reflect , debrief, and check for understanding. Taking this time before the bell rings helps teachers know where exactly to start tomorrow.

Utilizing an exit ticket or a post-it parking lot in every classroom every day is overkill for students. Here are ten of my favorite ways to wrap up and bring closure to the lesson.

#1. Exit Tickets (Digital & Print)

Create a poll or scale on a Google Form. It can also be an open-ended question on a Google Form or video platform like Flip or Seesaw . A no-tech exit ticket might ask students on paper to respond to one of these prompts:

• I used to think…but now I think…
• Create a quiz question based on today’s lesson. What would the question be? What would be the answer?
• Thick & Thin: What are the good parts of the lesson and the not-so-good of today’s lesson?
• Sketch a key component of the lesson.

This wrap-up is so versatile depending on the content and objectives. Students can write on a large sticky note, paper, or digitally on a Google form (trying using it as a Flip video). Simply, students list three things they learned from the lesson, two things they found interesting, and one question that still remains unanswered. This can be adapted for students to share two questions and one way the information is applicable in their everyday lives.

#3. Sentence – Phrase – Word

This thinking protocol is from Project Zero, Harvard University Graduate School of Education . After reviewing the lesson, students extract a sentence that was meaningful or captures the core essence of the lesson, a phrase that provoked one’s thinking, and a word that summarizes one’s learning.

#4. Stop & Jot

Students can take the last five minutes of class to stop and reflect on the lesson. This can be a freewriting activity in their notebook or handing out a sticky note to respond to a specific content-based question.

#5. Caption This!

One of my favorite warm-ups is from Matt Miller, author of Ditch that Textbook. Caption This  is a way to wrap up a lesson by providing students with a visual text (think political cartoon for social studies, a diagram in science, or an image from a text in ELA) and students write the caption to show what they know.

The example below is an image from a graphic novel version of George Orwell. I have inserted sentence starters to help push students to think about the chapter but it could also be used with a blank speech bubble above the animals or farmer for students to complete.

Using vowels, students write a reflection or response based on each letter prompt. This reflection can be completed in small groups or individually posting responses on a Padlet .

#7. Rock-Paper-Scissors

This three-question reflection asks students to describe what they felt is the rock of the lesson or the most solid part of the lesson. What do you think should be written down on paper because it is the most important part of the lesson? What can be cut out by the scissors because it is not as important?

#8. What’s In the Cards

Author and educator Katie Novak shared this reflection protocol. It asks four questions for students to reflect on the lesson.

• Hearts – Something from the heart. How did you feel? What did it mean to you?
• Clubs – Things that grew: What new ideas, thoughts, or points of view did you get today?
• Diamonds – Gems that last forever. What gems of wisdom gathered from people or content reinforced something you know?
• Spades – Something you dug into. What did you start working on today? How was your progress?

#9. Quiz Time

Breakout the Kahoot!, Blooket, Quizizz, Gimkit, or Quizlet Live to check for understanding. Students love these digital gaming platforms because it adds some competition and practice for learning. Pick your favorite game platform, create the quiz, and then use the last ten minutes of class to assess what students have learned.

#10. $2.00 Summary

Words have a price. Each word is ten cents so students only have 20 words to summarize the key aspects of the lesson.

Students can write with pen and paper, record their response online, verbally share their thinking, or even share a sketch. Whatever the medium you choose, the closure of a lesson should be meaningful. The purpose of closure is to review the key points of the lesson, give students the opportunity to draw conclusions, and show what they know.

About Michele Haiken

Michele Haiken, Ed.D is an educator, author, and blogger. She has been teaching for more than twenty four years as a middle school English teacher and an adjunct professor in New York. Michele is the co-author of the forthcoming book Creative SEL: Using Hands-on Projects to Boost Social Emotional Learning (ISTE, 2023) and author of New Realms for Writing (ISTE, 2019), Personalized Reading (ISTE, 2018), and editor of Gamify Literacy (ISTE, 2017). Michele is passionate about empowering 21st Century learners, educational technology and literacy so everyone can reach excellence. Read more on her blog theteachingfactor.com and connect with Michele on Instagram @teaching_factor and Twitter @teachingfactor.

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How to Wrap Up a Unit in an Online Learning Environment

Dr. selena kiser.

• May 22, 2020

Online learning, or sometimes called eLearning, environments are a standard type of pedagogy in today’s world. Teachers capture the key components of a live classroom and enable students to interact and help one another just as in a traditional classroom. Teachers assign units of study and enhance key information creatively and respectively. There are many challenges of learning in an online environment and many factors to consider when wrapping up a unit of study. Knowing the end goals and the information students need to retain are the most important factors.

How to Tie Up Loose Ends and Consolidate Key Information

It is essential to provide student-centered learning and active learning opportunities in an online classroom environment. It is vital to be precise on what skills need to be taught and what the goals are for completion of the unit of study. There are several areas that allow a unit to come together, and these include significance and efficacy. In my career of being a student and a teacher, the most important purpose in teaching units of study is to provide meaningful information. This requires creativity, and now is the perfect time to glean ideas in this area.

Simply assigning and completing assignments is not an effective practice in wrapping up online learning environments. Just as in any traditional classroom, it is imperative to include a variety of activities and opportunities for students to feel connected and that provide assurance of course and skill mastery. For example, in an elementary or secondary school class, students must be engaged and attain relevance to what they are learning.

Tying up loose ends and consolidating information requires a synopsis of skills acquired and capturing the essence of the most important points students need to retain. Throughout the course, students must feel empowered to want to learn and create discussions that allow them to actively participate.

How Students can Demonstrate Understanding and Content Mastery

Students demonstrate understanding and mastery in a myriad of ways in an online learning environment. One of the key ways to ensure student learning content mastery is creating opportunities for students to apply the skills in integrated ways. Examples of these include: projects, case studies or scenarios, creating opportunities for debate, sharing, games , and incorporating challenges. Another example of how students can demonstrate content mastery is providing small group tasks and individualized learning outcomes.

I have been teaching in a traditional and online learning environment for many years, and students need to be active in the learning process and feel supported. Active engagement in an online learning environment includes activities such as: group tasks, video/audio opportunities , forums, and creating resources that they can utilize. To come away with a fundamental understanding of the subject matter, combining the components of active learning with engaging opportunities allows students to retain effective skills. The online experience is well-designed and supported from the beginning, and understanding is an effective result of this design. They will master the content as they are participating in each assignment and recreating opportunities throughout the course.

How to Assess Student Learning

Assessment in an online learning environment needs to be strategic to the group you are teaching. Explicit details should be stated in the course objectives and include a rubric of the expectations. Progress monitoring through regular formative assessments and individualized feedback is effective in online assessment.

Examples of online assessment of student learning should include formative assessments throughout the length of the course. Short quizzes, oral and video presentations, skill demonstrations and applications are also effective assessment measures to check for students’ understanding. Timely feedback and requiring quick and reflective answers from students are also effective methods in assessing students’ content mastery.

Online learning environments need to be closely monitored, and informal assessment checks such as checking in often on students’ progress, direct messaging, and monitoring time spent online are vital to assessing students’ advancement.

Online learning environments require strategic design in completing and assessing of study. In summary, active engagement, quick and frequent formative assessment, and student-led learning outcomes are among the most vital components included in online learning. Wrapping up the unit successfully is vital to students’ content mastery.

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9 Wrap Up Activities for Lesson Closure That Work Like a Charm

Written by Victoria (Teach Starter)

Ever looked at your classroom clock or heard the bell ring and realized you did not have time to close up the lesson plan the way you really wanted to? Lesson closures are just as important as the lesson hooks we use to get kids excited about learning, but it’s not always easy to wrap up a lesson! That’s why the expert teachers on the Teach Starter team pulled together some creative ways to close a lesson and some wrap-up activities for your students!

What Is a Lesson Closure?

Sure, you might know this already, but stick with us for just a second. We promise this will be good! A lesson closure is a way to end a lesson, of course, but it’s more than just closing the book or putting a pin in the proverbial balloon.

A good lesson closure reviews what you’ve covered in a lesson and leaves a lasting impression on your students. Lesson closures are a chance to emphasize key information, allow your students to ask questions that have plagued them throughout the process, and of course, inform your future instruction.

What Are the Strategies for Closing Lessons?

In an effective closure, the teacher will use strategies that include reviewing and summarizing a lesson, consolidating key information, creating a link to new ideas and building anticipation for the next lesson. During a good closure, the students will be given an opportunity to express any concerns, ask questions and clarify their own understandings. It will also give students the chance to celebrate and share any personal achievements with their peers.

Closing a lesson can also be used as an assessment tool for the teacher, indicating whether the students understood the lesson objective or if the teacher needs to alter the delivery of their lesson or pull a small group to address any misconceptions students may have after the lesson.

As a teacher, it is important to keep an eye on the clock and manage your lesson to ensure you have adequate time for the essential closure.

Creative Ways to Close a Lesson

Outlined below are some of our teacher team’s most creative ways to close a lesson and provide your students with wrap-up activities.

Reflective Beach Ball

• What are you most proud of from today’s lesson?
• How did you overcome any challenges?
• How did today’s lesson make you feel?
• What was one thing you learned from today’s lesson?
• What did you find most interesting?
• How did you help others during the lesson?

Ask the students to throw the ball  — or, ahem, pass it — around the classroom, ensuring that each student gets a turn with the ball. When a student catches the ball, they read the question out loud then share their answer with the class, before throwing the ball to the next person.

Alternatively, write the questions on a set of popsicle sticks, and place them in a jar. At the end of a lesson, pick a craft stick from the jar and ask the students to share their answers with a partner.

Create News “Headlines”

Pair your students off, and tell them to imagine they were writing “headlines” that summarize what they learned. Challenge each pair to write at least two headlines, then come back together to review the headlines.

Alternatively, you can do this as an entire class activity, writing the headlines suggested by students on your whiteboard.

Use Exit Tickets

Sometimes students are too scared to ask a question in front of their peers or celebrate a personal achievement, worried that it might make them look silly. A creative lesson closure that can help? Exit tickets.

These “tickets” ( we’ve got editable ones you can use as is or edit to address specific elements of the lesson) are basically forms kids can fill out with questions that remain or feedback. By using exit tickets, students are able to let you know of any concerns or successes before they leave the room, and you have an excellent formative assessment to work from.

A student should never leave your classroom with a head full of questions, feeling confused, or feeling deflated. Let them know that even though the lesson is over, there’s still room for questions and comments! You could then follow up with the students as a class or individually before or during the next lesson.

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Sticky Notes Parking Lot

A sticky note parking lot is a great way to close a lesson.

Hand out Post-It type notes at the beginning of the lesson and encourage your students to write down any questions or understandings related to the topic. You can pass out different colors to make it easier: For example, use pink for questions, yellow for almost understanding, and green to explain that they have got it.

At the end of the lesson, students “park” their sticky notes on the parking lot, and the teacher reads out the questions and encourages volunteers who know the answer to share with the class. This allows students to learn from their peers. Achievements from the yellow and green notes are celebrated and discussed as a class.

Using a sticky note parking lot to close a lesson also enables you as a teacher to review and summarize the lesson and consolidate key information with the students.

TILT – Today I Learned To

Have you done a TILT with your students yet? This lesson closure helps bring everything together! TILT stands for Today I Learned To.

Use this Today I Learned To (TILT) poster as a whole class or individually to allow students to reflect on what they learned that day. Display the poster in the classroom and refer to it before the next lesson.

Tip: Remind the students what they learned in the previous lesson, and discuss what they will be learning today with a WALT!

Reflective Thinking Prompts

Display our Reflective Thinking Posters in your classroom as a visual prompt for students to use as they reflect on their own learning.

At the end of a lesson, gather as a class and select a Reflective Thinking Card to be the reflective focus for the day. Read the prompt to the students and provide them with some quiet thinking time.

Ask for volunteers to share their reflective thoughts with the class and discuss any similarities or differences experienced during the lesson.

3-2-1 Feedback

At the end of a lesson, provide each student with a copy of the 3-2-1 Feedback template.

On the worksheet, students record three things they learned in the lesson, two fun facts, and one question they still have. Ask the students to share their thoughts with a partner.

Encourage students to try and answer each other’s questions or suggest ways in which they could find the answer. Alternatively, complete a ‘3-2-1 Feedback’ together as a whole class and ask students to find the answer for homework. At the start of the next lesson, ask the students to share their answers with the class.

Quick Rating

If there is only one minute left in the lesson, there is still time for a quick lesson closure. Ask the students to use their fingers to give the lesson a rating out of five, then ask three students to share the reason for their rating with the class.

The rating might be a general rating on the overall lesson, or it may be more specific, such as asking the students to give a rating of how well they understood the concept or a rating of personal improvements.

One Word Lesson Closure

One Word is another quick but creative lesson-closing activity that can be used at the end of any lesson.

Before leaving the room, students must think of one word that summarizes the lesson for themselves, then share the word with you before exiting. Their one word may relate to their understanding of the lesson, how they felt about the lesson, a question, or a celebration.

As a follow-up, choose three of the shared words with the whole class at the start of the next lesson.

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14 Fun Wrap-Up Activities for Students

At long last, the unit you were teaching has come to a close. Now what?

Wrap-up activities for students will tie up learned concepts in a neat bow (hopefully!) while solidifying knowledge and naturally leading to the next related topic. Teachers will value these wrap-ups because they are perfect ways to check for understanding (and any misunderstanding) as well as summarize important info. Students will also appreciate these activities because the transition to the next topic won’t be as abrupt. How do we incorporate creative recap activies into our teaching? Check out these 14 suggestions for post-lesson activities to get you started.  

Closure Activities for Students

1. dramatization.

Have students — either in a group or individually — dramatize a section of they learned. For example, if you studied a particular novel or the works of an author, students could develop short skits to bring a piece of the story to life. This can be easily applied to history lessons as well, and your students will have a blast doing it.

2. Jeopardy-style game

Reinforce learning with a few rounds of a Jeopardy-style game based on information from the topic at hand. Generate the content online and share on a smart board. If you don’t have access to a smart board or similar tech, construction paper on a board can work, too (with clues hidden under a second layer of paper).

3. Trivia cards

With this Jeopardy twist, students can create their own trivia cards and then take turns playing the game with a fellow student. The bonus here is that students will be cementing their learning while creating the cards, and then they’ll solidify that even further when playing trivia with a partner!

4. Gallery walk

Students can put their own unique flair into a poster board with highlights from the concept that they learned. Posters can focus on a particular section of the concept (if it’s sufficiently large) or demonstrate their understanding of the concept as a whole. Much like the trivia game, this activity allows students to get double the benefit as they assemble their own posters and then participate in a gallery walk to view their peers’ work.

5. Exit tickets

Tried-and-true exit tickets work wonderfully for a quick wrap-up activity.  Perhaps students will write two sentences about what they learned today, or you can have them respond to a specific thought-provoking question about what you taught.

6. Pass the knowledge down

Learning by teaching is an effective way to reinforce your understanding of a concept. If possible, have your students teach the concept to other students in a lower grade. This will give your students confidence in the topic and allow them to look at it from a different perspective. For example, their “student” might have questions that force your student to think more deeply.

7. Think-pair-shares

Another closing activity for the classroom to consider is think-pair-share . This activity gets students talking to each other about the concept you’re wrapping up, even allowing for the sharing of new perspectives. Have your students spend a few silent minutes thinking about an aspect of the topic you learned (or the topic as a whole), and then pair them with other students to discuss any relevant angles, pros and cons, or strategies.

8. Slide presentation

Allow your students to flex their creative muscles by developing slide presentations that highlight key points from the topic. This is another two-in-one activity: Students will solidify their learning not only when they create their presentation but also when they watch their peers present. Consider using slides after conducting an experiment to show the results with graphs or a series of documenting pictures.

9. Expert talks

When wrapping up a topic, consider having students conduct their very own lectures. Have them zero in on a specific aspect of the lesson, give them some prep time, and then let them each hold a two-minute talk on their newfound expertise.

10. Sell it

Students can record (or present live) a quick advertisement related to the topic you’re wrapping up. For example, if your class learned strategies for division in math class, have them choose a particular strategy to promote in a 30-second ad.

11. The artist

Wrap up a series of lessons by having students create a related piece of art. Collages work well for this, but also consider other types of visual representations — perhaps an interpretive, abstract painting to capture the feeling of a historical revolution? Maybe your students have been learning about classical music and you have them paint or draw freely while listening to a piece and see what you get? This can have surprisingly fascinating results!

12. Model behavior

Piggybacking on the art installation suggestion, dioramas and models are fun ways to recap a lesson. Students can piece together their own historically accurate 18th-century fort or village. Or, in science class, they can create awesome models of body parts such as the eye or heart. These are fun activities that bring together the learned concepts.

13. In other news …

Students can prepare short newscasts about a topic. Have them sit facing the class at a desk — with a small stack of notes in hand and maybe even a suit jacket — to deliver a special report. They could cover an environmental issue, a current or past exciting scientific discovery, or present a historical event as if it happened that day.

14. Represent

Have students physically represent a concept, either in small groups or as a whole class. This works best with science or math topics, in my experience, but if you can apply it to other subjects, go for it! Students can act out division, photosynthesis, the water cycle, etc. This will allow your class to see and also participate in a literal rendition of the topic they learned.

Solidify Your Students' Learning Experience with Creative Recap Activities for the Classroom

The fun closure activities for students listed above allow both students and teachers alike to feel a sense of celebration and accomplishment when wrapping up one idea or topic and moving on to the next. These will be memorable experiences for your students, allowing them to solidify their learning and transition more smoothly to the next piece of the puzzle.

This article was adapted from a blog post initially developed by the education technology company Classcraft, which was acquired by HMH in 2023. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of HMH.

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28 Great Wrap-Up Activities For Your Lesson Plans

February 28, 2023 //  by  Kimberly Lange

You’ve planned your lesson, chosen an introductory and follow-up activity, and gathered all your resources. Now what? Wrapping up a lesson is as important as the lesson itself. Your lesson wrap-up can help you evaluate whether your teaching method was effective and whether students understand the concepts. It can also help solidify their comprehension in a fun way. This list has 28 fabulous wrap-up activities that you can use in your classroom.

Jenga is a fun game where you build a tower using small pieces of wood. You then have to try and take out a block without breaking the tower. This game can be turned into a fun wrap-up activity by writing questions or facts on each block to have your students review the content they’ve just covered in the lesson.  

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2. Read the Room

For this activity, you will need big, white pieces of paper. Divide the class into four groups and tell each group to go to a corner in the classroom. Give each group a topic or heading to summarize. They will then put the papers up on the classroom walls and move around to read what other groups have written. 

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3. Play Kahoot

Kahoot is a fun and engaging quiz game where the teacher can create quizzes, and the students can all respond on their own devices. It’s a great way to keep students engaged and recap the lesson or chapter. You will need a computer and cell phones, and you can even divide students into groups and have them compete.

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4. Role Play

Role play is always a fun activity to wrap a lesson up, especially if it’s about literature or historical events. The students can dress up according to the time period and setting. They can then write their own scripts and even design the sets.

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5. Scavenger Hunt

Everyone loves a good scavenger hunt, and it’s also a great way to wrap up a lesson. You can create riddles and clues based on keywords from your main lesson. Students will then need to guess the right description based on what they just learned. Write questions and clues and place them around the classroom. Only if the students answer correctly can they get a new clue.

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6. Jeopardy-Style Game 

Use this game platform to create your own Jeopardy-style game. Jeopardy is a fun game that will test your students’ knowledge and encourage them to pay attention during the lesson. Students also get the chance to review the content by listening to the correct responses of other students.

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7. News Broadcast

This fun wrap-up activity is perfect for lesson closures and will create a culture of learning. Divide students into pairs and have each pair summarize an idea or subject in the form of a news broadcast. You can make it fun with props, a camera crew, and even a teleprompter.

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8. Snow Storm

This is a fun, quick activity to help students recall what they learned. It’s so simple that it can be done after every section or chapter. Students write the main idea or a summary of the content down on a piece of white paper and then crumble it up and throw it in the air. Each student then picks up someone else’s snowball and reads it aloud.

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9. Write a Song

Put the students in groups and tell them to write a song or rap about what they have learned about a certain topic. This is a great way for students to learn how to summarize and present important information.

10. Beach Ball Breakdown

Write numbers on it and learners can answer the question that correlates with a number. Whoever catches the ball has to answer the question of the number on top of the ball. There are many different variations to this game.

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11. Minute Paper

This quick and effective closure technique only takes a minute of the lesson and is helpful to both the students and the teacher. At the end of the lesson, the students have one minute to write down what they have learned and what they still want to know.

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12. Exit Tickets

Exit tickets are a good way for teachers to track their students’ understanding and determine whether their own teaching style is working for the students. They can ascertain whether or not they need to reteach certain concepts. If just one or two students are having a hard time grasping a concept, the teacher can easily just recap with them.

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13. Clear or Cloudy

Clear or cloudy is another quick and fun way to determine if students need help understanding certain concepts. They write down the points that they understand and write down the questions that they have about things that are still ‘cloudy’.

14. Thinking Maps

Thinking maps are a great way to allow students to use their thinking skills to evaluate what they’ve learned and logically sort it into one of these thinking maps.

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15. Recap App

This fun app is a quick and easy way to recap a lesson and incorporate technology. The platform is user-friendly and customizable; making recapping a delight! 

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16. Google Slides

Google Classroom and Google slides are not only good to use for wrap-up activities, but are great to use for the entire lesson. The possibilities are endless! 

3-2-1 is a simple way to get students to think about what they’ve learned, track their understanding, make critical decisions, and create their own opinions.

18. Sticky Notes

Ask your students to write tone piece of information that stuck with them from the lesson on a sticky note. This can help teachers determine what they learned and may also help if there are misconceptions or confusion about the lesson.

Bingo is always a fun way to close a lesson. Write lesson-related keywords and concepts on Bingo cards and have your students match them to a definition. 

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20. Roll and Retell

This simple activity is a great way to recall the main idea of a story or concept. Each student can have a die and share their answer with a partner.

21. Self Assessment

It’s important for students to learn how to self-reflect and assess their learning. This self-assessment wrap-up activity will get your students to think critically about their own mathematical learning. 

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22. Quiz Games

You can get these fun buzzers and have a quick quiz at the end of each lesson to establish if your students are ready to move on to the next topic.

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23. Whip Around

This quick activity allows students to verbally share their thoughts and summaries of the lesson with their peers by passing a ball around. Whoever catches the ball must share one thought.

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24. Fishbowl

Allow each student to write a question they have about the lesson. Let the students form two circles, one inner and one outer circle. The student in the outer circle can ask the person in front of them in the inner circle a question, then switch.

25. The 5 W’s

Ask the students questions related to what, who, where, when, and why.  This is a fast way to summarize the content of a lesson- especially a history or literature lesson. You can change the questions to only use the ones applicable to the lesson. 

26. Thumbs Up

Thumbs up is a super easy way to check for understanding. Simply ask your students to answer questions with a thumbs up if they understand a concept or a thumbs down if they don’t understand.

27. Riddles

Create a fun riddle about certain concepts or main ideas that were taught during the lesson. Write the riddle down on the board or simply say it aloud and let the students try to solve it before leaving. 

28. Quick Doodles

This fun activity can be used for most language and social studies lessons. Give each student a blank piece of paper and let them draw a quick doodle about the lesson. It can be about a character, physical thing, concept, or representation of abstract thoughts. This will allow them to think critically about what they’ve learned and also be creative.

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