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Episode #116:  24 EdTech Fueled Lesson Openers

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 116 called “24 Edtech-Fueled Lesson Openers”   In this episode, we’ll share 24 ideas for lesson hooks that will be sure to capture your students’ attention.  We’ll also recommend some edtech tools that will bring these ideas to the next level.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

Segment 2:  Lesson Openers 

1. EdTech Show and Tell   5:30 cough
   1. Chemistry example
2. Start with motion
   1. The Standup Game from Sarah Wessling – everyone stands up, you get to sit if you chose to share something
3. Find the mistake and mark it on Edji
4. Show a video
   1. Movie trailers
   2. Classhook
5. Provoke opinions, make it topical
   1. PBS News Hour Classroom
   2. The Juice – Daily news matches reading level, supports diving into current events
   3. https://idebate.org/
6. Google Earth Field Trip
   1. 50 Amazing Finds on Google Earth
7. Explain the graph
   1. Turners Graph of the Week
   2. Nytimes whats going on in this graph?
8. Survey using Google Forms and show the results
   1. Try a real-life version by having students use colored sticky-notes to create a bar graph on the board
   2. Poll everywhere
9. Feely Bags and Feely Boxes (not just for elementary students!)
   1. Pineapple, jello, etc
   2. Have students write about what they feel
   3. For a high school twist, use complex objects like molecule model kits, asking them to ID the substance, make a molecule based on what you know (size of molecules)
   4. Edtech version: Google slides, have on image in the background, 75% covered by a shape.  Slowly move the shape away to reveal more and more of the image.  Students chat in what they think the image shows
10. QR code scavenger hunt
11. I-Spy (from home, around the school, find an image online that represents a topic)
12. Play a game (Worlde, heardle, etc)
13. Tech-guided meditation session
14. 60-second video challenge with a ridiculous debate (pencils versus crayons, is a hot dog a sandwich, is water wet?, theme it towards your content)
15. Jamboard – Make a Meme with GifIt from a youtube vid
16. Dress-up like a historical figure from your content area, take a picture, edit it using Canva to look like a the original photo
17. Provide a weird stat from https://www.statisticbrain.com/fun-facts/
18. An alternate universe scenario: “What if Elon Musk owned Mars?”
19. A minute to win it
    1. https://www.survivingateacherssalary.com/minute-to-win-it-games-classroom/
20. 2 truths and a farce
21. Brackets   11:14 throat clear
    1. Flippity
    2. https://www.onthisday.com/science/biology
    3. Mote
22. Baseketball
    1. Leaderboards: Flippity
23. Whiteboard tic tac toe
    1. Project the tic-tac-toe boards
       1. Google Docs, Slides, Jamboard
24. Olympic Games 1 event at a time
    1. Different changes throughout the year that earn groups of students point
    2. Leaderboard on Flippity

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