If you love Sketch and Tell,

Then you will love this Halloween template from John R. Sowash. Your students can crave their own pumpkins in Google Slides and share their details.   This could be an easy way to migrate your students from the paper version of Sketch and Tell to the online version.

Sketch and Tell Eduprotocal

So what’s an EduProtocal?  This concept (developed by Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern) uses a framework (or process or routine) to teach a lesson. Once the students learn the protocol, you can swap out the content for a new lesson. I recently joined Mrs. Visone’s second grade class for our first EduProtocal lesson.

The students learn the protocol (or process)- in this case, we did a Sketch (where they had a few minutes to draw) and Tell (again, a few minutes to write after brief partner discussions) about their  favorite frozen dessert.  After a quick review, we did it again (this is part of the Eduprotocal strategy- repetition) where they completed the activity describing their talent.   Mrs. Visone shared their work (via a document camera). Please see the samples above.  Next week when I visit, we are going to complete another “fun”( i.e.,low content load) Sketch and Tell before we move to classroom content.  While we completed this one on paper,we might move completing this using Google Slides.

If you are interested in EduProtocals (Thins Slides, CyberSandwhich, Fast and Curious, and Math Reps are a few of my favorites), I’ve started a Wakelet with resources.  If you are in district, reach out - I would love visit your class.