![]() This was the day we got back from Thanksgiving break so I was making sure my kids hadn’t completely brain-dumped 4 months worth of school. The review was from the exploration of Texas through our introduction to colonization. This was the first time I used word clouds with this particular group of students so it’s not ideal (most of her words are the same size), but it shows that everything is a work in progress in a classroom. The picture in this post is a sample from my Texas History class. ![]() You can expand on this by having students write a paragraph on the back explaining why they illustrated the significance of each phrase/term the way they did, or they could pick 3-5 terms and write a full academic identification for each. Ideally, they will write the most significant/important words or phrases pretty large and gradually make the other words/phrases smaller as they get to the less significant material (in their opinion). Then, they write words or phrases around it showing what they remember about the people and events leading to the war, battles, strategies, politics during the war, items related to Lincoln, spies, women during the war, prisoners of war, the effects of the Civil War, etc. My students get a piece of construction paper and write Civil War in the middle in large letters. Let’s say the topic at hand is the Civil War. ![]() Word clouds are a great, quick, and easy (for the teacher!) informal assessment for any social studies topic!
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