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Flippity: Games and Flashcards

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In this activity, students are given a weekly set of vocabulary words to study. Each day a different activity is introduced to help students learn the vocabulary. The week ends with a Flippity Quiz Show game and quiz.

Flippity is a powerful tool that takes the information you enter on a Google Sheet template and then quickly and easily creates numerous online games to help students with vocabulary and spelling. Games include a Jeopardy-style quiz show, Bingo, Hangman, Crossword Puzzles, Word Search, quizzes that generate a certificate when completed, Memory, and more. Imagine your English as a Second Language (ESL) students practicing vocabulary words with flashcards that speak to them. You can even insert images and videos. Activities can be shared to your Google Classroom, Website, Moodle course, or accessed on the Flippity Website.

Preparation

  1. Select the vocabulary words and their definitions you want to use. If you want to play Bingo during the week, you will need 24 words.
  2. Decide on which games and activities you want to use.
  3. Prepare any templates needed. Once you have entered your vocabulary words and their definitions in the Flashcard template, your students are able to hear the words on the card spoken, practice the words, and play a matching game. Under the More tab, you can use the same spreadsheet to create a Bingo game, Crossword puzzle, Hangman, Memory Game, Word Search or simply Print Quiz.
  4. Be sure to give your Google Sheet files a descriptive name. You might want to keep templates in a folder labeled by chapter or unit.
  5. Decide how you will share your activity with your class.
  6. Open your activity in your classroom to be sure it is not blocked.

Teacher Tips

  • Use the Flippity Google sheets Add-on to quickly create activities.

More Ways

  • Be sure to check the uploaded Web-based Class Article on Flippity for more ideas.

Program Areas

  • ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation
  • ABE: Adult Basic Education
  • ESL: English as a Second Language
  • ASE: High School Diploma
  • CTE: Career Technical Education
  • AwD: Adults with Disabilities

Levels

  • All Levels
  • All Levels

Lesson Plan

Warm-up

Introduction to Vocabulary Words (10 minutes)

  • Introduce the weekly set of vocabulary words to the students using a visual presentation (e.g., PowerPoint or Google Slides).
  • Engage students by asking if they are familiar with any of the words or have heard them used before.
     
Introduction

Demonstration of Flippity Flashcards (10 minutes)

  • Demonstrate how to use the Flippity Flashcard activity.
  • Show students how to access the flashcards, listen to the pronunciation, and use the matching game feature.
Presentation

Daily Interactive Activities (30 minutes each day)

Monday: Flashcard Practice

    • Students use the Flippity Flashcards to familiarize themselves with the vocabulary words and their definitions.

Tuesday: Crossword Puzzle

    • Students complete a crossword puzzle using the vocabulary words.

Wednesday: Bingo

    • Students play a Bingo game with the vocabulary words.

Thursday: Hangman

    • Students play Hangman to reinforce spelling and word recognition.

Friday: Memory Game

    • Students play a memory game matching words to their definitions.
       
Practice

Collaborative and Interactive Practice (15 minutes daily)

  • Pair or group students to work together on the daily activity.
  • Encourage students to discuss the vocabulary words and use them in sentences.
  • Use a collaborative tool like Google Docs for students to share their sentences and provide feedback to each other.
Evaluation

Flippity Quiz Show and Quiz (30 minutes)

Friday:

  • Divide the class into teams and play the Flippity Quiz Show using the week's vocabulary words.
  • Conclude with a fill-in quiz generated with the Flashcard activity under the More tab.
     
Application

Extension Activity (Optional Homework)

  • Assign students to use the vocabulary words in a short story or dialogue.
  • Encourage students to share their work with the class or in small groups the following week.

Documents

Subjects

  • Basic Communication
    • Communicate in interpersonal interactions
  • Electives
    • Intro to Computers
  • Employment
    • Communicate effectively in the workplace
  • Language Arts - Reading
    • Comprehension
  • Learning and Thinking Skills
    • Demonstrate study skills
    • Demonstrate the ability to use information and communication technology
    • Identify or demonstrate effective skills and practices in accomplishing goals
  • Reading
    • Vocabulary
  • Reasoning Through Language Arts
    • Essays
    • Literary Texts (Fiction, Poetry, Drama)
    • Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
    • Nonfiction Texts
    • Organization
    • Sentence Structure
    • Usage
  • Social Studies
    • American Government
    • Economics
    • U.S. History
    • World History
  • Writing
    • Basic Sentences
    • Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
    • Parts of Speech

CTE Sectors

  • Arts, Media, and Entertainment
  • Business and Finance
  • Education, Child Development, and Family Services
  • Energy, Environment, and Utilities
  • Health Science and Medical Technology
  • Information and Communication Technologies

CTE Anchor Standards

  • Anchor Standard 1: Academics - Analyze and apply appropriate academic standards required for successful industry sector pathway completion leading to postsecondary education and employment. Refer to the industry sector alignment matrix for identification of standards.
  • Anchor Standard 2: Communications - Language Standard: Acquire and accurately use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the (career and college) readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
  • Anchor Standard 6: Health and Safety - Reading Standards for Science and Technical Subjects: Determine the meaning of symbols, key words, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context.
  • Anchor Standard 11: Demonstration and Application - Demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills contained in the industry-sector anchor standards, pathway standards, and performance indicators in classroom, laboratory, and workplace settings, and the career technical student organization.

Tags

hangman, jeopardy, matching, memory, name picker, quiz, spelling, typing, vocabulary, word search, bingo, crossword, flippity

Conditions

License Unless otherwise stated, Flippity and/or it's licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material (including the underlying code) on Flippity. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may not sell, rent, or sub-license material from Flippity.net. You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the site. Your use of the site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. Hyperlinking to Content Anyone may link to Flippity.net so long as the link: (a) is not in any way misleading; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party's site. Embedding / Iframes Unless embed code is specifically provided for you, you may not embed or create frames around Flippity web pages or use other techniques that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of the web site.

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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN220124 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.