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Years ago apps like Educreations helped to popularize creating whiteboard-style instructional videos. Today, screencasting tools like Screencastify and Google’s Chrome screencast tool along with Microsoft Flip’s whiteboard tool make it easy to create a whiteboard style video in your web browser. Regardless of the tool used, the basic premise is to draw on a blank screen while talking at the same time.
Often teachers make whiteboard videos to use as lessons for their students to watch independently. But having students make videos can be a great way to learn what they know about a topic and how they think about a topic. Here are twenty five topics that you could have your students make whiteboard videos about.
Science
- Why volcanoes erupt
- The water cycle
- Ocean tides
- Tectonic plates
- Inertia
Math
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- The Pythagorean theorem
- Slope intercept form
- Compound interest
- Long division
Social Studies
- Ranked choice voting
- Branches of government
- Latitude and longitude
- Map projections
- Gerrymandering
Language Arts
- Parts of speech
- Phonics lessons
- Plot structure
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Types and structures of poems
Other
- Rules of various sports
- Bass clef and treble clef
- How to read a clock
- Verb conjugation
- How wi-fi networks work
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