Bring creative technology to vocabulary building!
Use these examples of projects created by students and tweets from classroom teachers to inspire digital projects that help students build vocabulary.
Creative use of technology can engage students, and help you integrate your iPads, PCs, or Chromebooks into the curriculum.
These multimedia projects were created by students using Wixie.
Visualizing Vocabulary
Students visualize and illustrate the meaning of pairs of words like antonyms and homophones.
Visualizing Antonyms Lesson Plan
Templates
Students can build vocabulary by combing text, images, and voice to digital vocabulary templates.
Idioms
Students can illustrate and translate the meaning of an idiom to help others learn these examples of figurative language.
Deepen Grammar Understanding
Texas educator Amy Clark asked her students to use animation to better understand that verbs are action words. She also asked her students to come up with a "fancy" word, or synonym, for their verb.
Trading Cards
Students can create vocabulary flash cards or trading cards they print and share with classmates.
Vocabulary Wanted Posters
Work with vocabulary can be creative too! Stretch students thinking with projects like this vocabulary wanted posters.
Give students choice
Use this choice board to put students in charge of how they will work on acquiring vocabulary.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Ocean Vocabulary Journals
Students in Ms. Leverett's class are creating illustrated Ocean Vocabulary Journals using @Tech4Learning #wixie. They are using text, video, drawing tools, audio and images to share what they have learned while working in teams! pic.twitter.com/xx3elkQxBm
— Sangster Elementary (@Sangster_ES) December 8, 2021 -
Wanted Poster Vocabulary
Our 5th grade Ss are on the look out for some missing triangles! They used descriptive words and math vocabulary to create these wanted posters in #Wixie @carolynkdaly @ColesRoadrunner @TreadwellMrs pic.twitter.com/AS4csmJYjE
— Mrs. Martin (@ITCColes) May 19, 2021 -
Transition Words
We are loving explaining our thinking using transition words and math vocabulary @TylerHeights pic.twitter.com/6sToKpaLA1
— K Tindle (@Kt63357) March 16, 2023 -
Academic Vocabulary
2nd graders use #Wixie to record their weather report! Ss applied academic vocab to respond to sentence stems. #Wixie allows all Ss to incorporate multiple language domains into their response across the content areas @carolynkdaly @ScottLoomis @Tech4Learning @CIT_PWCS pic.twitter.com/8u4693dCbk
— Mrs. Martin (@EdTechieMeg) September 18, 2024 -
Vocabulary Scrapbooks
Grade 4 using #Wixie to create Geometry Vocabulary Scrap Books @Tech4Learning @BCPSMATH pic.twitter.com/iAE1xR8RLg
— Sara Chrystal (@OakleighLibrary) April 1, 2015 -
Non-fiction Terminology
Using Wixie to identify important vocabulary words in NF texts. @mrs_gilmartin #MWESchool #Wixie pic.twitter.com/S1zmO4j8DS
— Karen Parker (@mwestech) November 19, 2015
