The students in Mrs. Elsea’s 5th grade class used ClassFlow to review the parts of plant and animal cells. ClassFlow is similar to Nearpod in that I can send my slides to the students computer and receive student feedback. We began with a Bill Nye video. The video opened on all student laptops so they could use their headphones and listen to the short clip.
Next I shared information slides with the students about the parts of a cell. After each cell part, students had to determine if this cell part was found in both the plant and animal cells. If the organelle was only found in one type of cell, they used the text response to explain.
The students really enjoyed the diagram activity in which they labeled the diagram to show where the different parts of the plant and animal cell were located.
We ended this lesson with a matching activity with the cell vocabulary.
Throughout the lesson, I used the polling and text features to get student’s feedback on how well they liked this lesson in ClassFlow. If you are interested in trying this lesson with your class, create a free account on classflow.com and then click on this link to add the lesson to your resources.
