4th Grade Hanover Tavern Padlets
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary just took a field trip to the Hanover Tavern to learn more about Patrick Henry and the Revolutionary War Era in Virginia (VS.5). Today students in Ms. White’s class reflected on what they learned using Padlet. I posted a link to Padlet on Google classroom, and the students signed in using their Google accounts. Since this is on the HCPS CORE Resources list, it’s OK for students to sign in and set up accounts. Padlet is a great webtool that provides an online bulletin board for your students to post text, images, and even videos. First we clicked the “New Padlet” button at the top to create our Padlet. Students customized the wallpaper and the icon, and typed a title. For the Description, students wrote an open-ended question for their classmates to answer on their Padlet. We discussed the difference between open-ended questions (like, “What was your favorite part and why?” or “What is something that surprised you?” or “What would you like to have explored more?”) and one-answer questions (like, “When did the Revolutionary War start?” or “Did you have fun?”). Next, students clicked the Share button, and we made sure that the Privacy was set to Secret (only people with the link could view it). Then we copied the link and pasted it to Google classroom. Now students could click on each others’ links and add posts to the Padlets by double clicking on them. They typed their name for the title of each post and their answer to the question in the box. They could also click the camera button and take a photo of themselves. We made sure that we didn’t put our posts on top of anyone else’s. With Padlet, you can move your own post, but not other people’s (the creator can move anyone’s posts though). You can see some student samples here.