Click-and-Drag Activities with Flippity Manipulatives

Flippity is a free website that has a wide variety of Google Sheet templates which you can use to create fun classroom activities, such as flashcards, scavenger hunts, and quiz shows. As a classroom teacher, I loved using the Random NamePicker tool because I could easily create random groups of students for classroom activities. Each activity includes a demo, instructions, and a free template.

I recently tried a new activity on the website called Flippity Manipulatives. This template allows you to use a Google sheet to create a set of click-and-drag objects. It's pretty easy to set up, and once I started experimenting with it, I started thinking of so many different ways that teachers could use it in the classroom!

Here is a quick video I made to introduce teachers to the basics of how to get started:

Example Activities

I made a few example activities to demonstrate how this tool could be used in different content areas:

Classroom Use

There are many different ways teachers could use these activities in the classroom. Here are a few ideas:

Station Activity
Whole Group Practice
Partner Activity
"Engagement" activity at the start of a lesson
Pre-Assessment
Review
Student-created sort

Teachers are able to...

Create sorts with words, phrases, images, and/or videos
Add custom backgrounds, as well as remove any default background options
Add color to words and phrases
Reuse an activity as many times as they want to

Students are able to...

Work on an activity at the same time without affecting each other
"Reset" the activity when done, which is helpful if they are sharing computers
Take a screenshot of a completed activity and turn it into Google Classroom

I am looking forward to working with teachers and discovering all the different ways they can integrate this tool to support student learning!

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