E.E.I-Closure

Closure activities
1. Ask students to write down three most important things they learned from the lesson or from the unit. 2. Ask students to write down one thing that they enjoyed and one thing that could be improved. You could then have a feedback session with the entire class. 3. Divide the class into two teams and have a short trivia game based what you have just taught. 4. Flashcards. Again, this can be used for anything – dates, spellings, words in a foreign or second language. 5. Writing about a subject. Weaker students can be given sentence stems like: "My favorite thing is..." Share in pairs, group and/or with the whole class. 6. ABC Summary is basically an acrostic poem with ABC down the side and students have to try to come up with terms/concepts we learned for that day for each letter. 7. Have the students act out the objective of the lesson or a main event, or the main idea of the story. 8. Have students relate their new knowledge to the real world. For example, do a lesson on viewpoint of the author where students think of five different places they see viewpoint such as the newspaper, internet articles, etc. 9. Thumbs up/thumbs down (whole class assessment) on a series of questions on the lesson for the day. 10. 3-2-1 Three things you learned, two questions you have, and one thing you liked. 11. Post-its with questions that are placed under the desk to be answered as an exit ticket. 12. Have students create a multiple-choice question and 4 or 5 answer choices. 13. 3 Whats: 14. Sentence starters permanently displayed on a poster, 15. Think-pair-share--pose an application or other higher level wrap-up question, allow time to think individually, turn to a neighbor & share. Then share with class. 16. Have the students draw a picture that somehow shows that the lesson's objective was met. 17. Write a letter a person in the day’s lesson. 18. Write a journal entry in the voice of a person in the day’s lesson. Similar to having to students write a letter, this closure activity also allows the students to be creative and add their own flare to the assignment. 19. Exit quiz. 20. Hand up, Stand up, Pair up--then once they pair, up give them a review question to discuss (i.e. tell your partner the difference between communism and capitalism). After they discuss, tell them to point to their partner if they had a really good answer, and have a few kids share what they discussed. Then you can have them switch partners and discuss another question, and you can go as long or short as you need to. 21. Rally Robin is good for some lessons. Students work with the person who sits across from them. Their goal is to rally (think volleyball or tennis) as many ideas as they can back and forth. A good rally robin question is something like “Name all the people who were instrumental in the start of the Civil War and explain what each did. Then partner one starts, and they just name back and forth until time is called. 22. I do a 3, 2, 1 activity. List 3 important facts you learned, 2 interesting things and 1 question you still have. OR Who were 3 characters from the story, 2 problems and 1 solution. 23. Ticket Out the Door: Students have to write a question, comment, and/or something that they learned in class today. You can have preprinted tickets to distribute at the end of the period. 24. Have a student write a vocabulary word, or idea on the board, and then the rest of the class has to try to expand on that vocabulary word or idea. Kind of like an impromptu concept web at the end of class.
 * What did we learn today?
 * So what? (How is this important? relevant? useful?)
 * Now what? (Follow up? How does this relate to our unit outcomes?)
 * I learned...
 * I'm beginning to wonder...
 * I have a question about...
 * I'm beginning to understand...
 * I want to know…
 * I feel…
 * I think…
 * Today, I understood…
 * I was surprised that…
 * I would still like to know more about…
 * I am still confused about…
 * This lesson was valuable because…