Brittany Wolford
Indiana University South Bend / Elementary Education
IN

Grant,  What I think of when reading your post, is a lesson I have participated in as a preservice teacher, with the supervising teacher and 5th graders in my field placement. The topic was the solar system, and each student drew names of planets from a bowl (including the asteroid belt) the teacher was the sun, and each student (there were only 9 because of the way hybrid is set up here)...

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Give generationgenius.com a try! A colleague of mine has given me this resource, so big thank you to her! Generation Genius is full of K-8 easy to access lessons, vocabulary, extension questions, place-based activities that can be done with odds and ends from home, full-length lessons for the classroom or for virtual learning, and assessments in various forms for each lesson. Extremely well or...

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You could do a daily exit ticket, but have it count as a participation grade if you have too many to actually read. I also think you could do the exit ticket when it's something they may be tested on or at the end of a unit (like making sure they're meeting a benchmark), and this could be for participation grade, read them all, and use it as an informal assessment. 

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