Happy Birthday Post It! 35 Ideas for the Classroom

Today marks the 35th birthday of the Post It Note, which was born on April 6, 1980. In celebration, we share 35 ways we have seen the Post It used successfully in classrooms!

1. As an exit ticket: students writing down their biggest takeaway from a lesson or unit!

2. What is the question? Have students come up with the question for a posted answer. Think Jeopardy!

3. Flagging strategies for reading comprehension

4. Creating a countdown calendar to motivate students!

5. Creating interchangeable assignments for a choice board for early finishers

6. Organizing to do lists (or lesson plans)

7. Creating equations with food or candy

8. Creating an equation to provide math problem for a stated answer. The answer is 18. What is an equation that equals 18?

9. Multiple Post It’s can help students make a flipbook

10. Creating and easily rearranging your seating chart

11. Creating a timeline

12. Notes of positivity for colleagues or students!

13. Creating artwork!

14. Creating bar graphs to represent data

15. Measuring Area

16. Post It Note Sudoku

17. Create an Idea Wall!

18. Creating a calendar

19. Using synonym sunflowers for word choice!

20. Wonder Wall – Have students post questions that they wonder about.

21. Labeling items for ELL students

22. Creating compound words

23. Storyboarding when preparing to write

24. Filling in a Venn Diagram

25. Completing research

26. Vocabulary Match

27. Citing evidence when reading

28. Visualizing fractions

29. Reading response questions

30. Close Reading

31. Student monitoring and assessment notes

32. Making a Word Wall

33. Students self-monitoring their progress

34. Creating self-checking math problems for students

35. Creating a Boggle Bulletin Board

For more ideas, check out http://www.post-it.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/PostItNA/Home/Ideas/Education/

Share your best Post It activities and strategies in the comment section below!

by Rich Czyz @RACzyz

 

References

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