Tabletop Tweet
Purpose
Communicate your understanding of content by describing, sketching, and summarizing what you learned.
Materials
- Tabletop Tweet handout (printed or projected)
- notebook paper
- template
Instructions
- Using 140 characters or less, students describe what they learned.
- Students then create a graphic, diagram, or quick sketch to capture the big idea.
- Students then summarize what they learned with a hashtag phrase.
- Students crush their tweet and toss it across the room.
- Students pick up a random tweet and add one more idea in the re-tweet box.
- Teacher sees and hears students’ thinking and adjusts instruction as appropriate.
Classroom Management
Model how to complete the activity through a think-aloud. Role play how to crush and throw.
Differentiation
Promote access by partnering with a supportive peer/adult, providing students an idea/word bank, providing a thinking stem for box 1, allowing students to dictate ideas to a scribe, and/or developing responses using a speech-to-text or word prediction support with a digital version of the Tabletop Tweet template.
Think It Up!
Choose a Think It Up question as an exit ticket or a journal entry as evidence of learning.
Encourage students to use lead4ward’s Thinking Stems or Spanish Thinking Stems to frame responses.
- Compare/Contrast the Tabletop Tweet to a real tweet. What changes would you make if this was a REAL tweet?
