Jennifer Orton (@jorton) and I met at ADE institute in 2023 and have been working on compiling lessons for high school teachers using MacBooks or iPads in class. Jennifer uses iPads, and I use MacBooks, and in our collaboration, we realized that small adjustments can be made to apply the lessons in each environment. Over the next 30 days, we’ll post one lesson idea each day!
Lesson Idea #6: Demonstrating Learning with Digital Trading Cards
This lesson originated from a discussion in a coaching cycle with a teacher who wanted her students to identify information about landmark Supreme Court cases, show that they understood the legal terminology, and explain how they felt that the decision in their case affected their lives today. During that planning session, we created a custom Keynote slide size and identified the information on the slide she wanted her students to share about their cases. When she assigned the trading card to her students, they received a copy of the template with three slides for them to complete - one she assigned to them and two they chose from the list of landmark decisions.
Although we focused on Supreme Court cases for this lesson, a digital trading card has so many possible uses in every subject area.
See the sample templates below.
📣 How could you use digital trading cards in your classroom?
December 07, 2024
Thank you Jennifer and Megan for providing both the generic and SCOTUS trading cards Keynote templates! So correct that this lesson activity can reach into multiple disciplines. I think my favorite part is the connection of the court cases to student lives. That certainly adds a wonderful critical thinking component
This is such a great collection of lessons for high school teachers. Have you thought about adding a link back to each (like a little table of contents) in each post?
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