Flipgrid Basics 💻📱🖥

Are you new to Flip? Get Started Here.

Here are the basics: When you set up your account, you’ll first create a Topic for your learning community. Topics are discussion prompts that your students respond to with short videos. Students then Record a Response and post their video or view and Add a Comment to one other’s Responses.

Groups are a great way for educators to organize multiple Topics and share them with a community of learners. Invite your students to respond to an individual Topic or to access your Group of Topics by sharing the Join Code or Link.

Flip is available on the web or via the iOS or Android apps.

Flip in Grades 6-8 Science 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

In middle grades, learners refine their voice and communicate with others while strengthening skills such as elaboration and reflection. Flip helps students leverage technology to take an active role in demonstrating competency in their learning goals (ISTE Standards for Students 1). The wonder and understanding of science concepts deepen at the middle school level through inquiry, the scientific process, critical thinking, the application of math concepts, and lab experiments. As students learn more about Earth Science, Life Science, and Physical Science their ability to articulate the knowledge of application of concepts strengthens with their use of Flip. Here are a few ways Flip can ignite engagement, supporting learning, and capture students’ learning process in science:

⭐️ Develop a model to explain the role of gravity and its effects.
⭐️ Identify patterns of Earth's major historical events in geologic evidence.
⭐️ Plan and carry out investigations that demonstrate the chemical and physical processes that form rocks and cycle Earth's materials.
⭐️ Analyze and interpret data to describe how various human activities may cause changes in local and global temperatures over time.
⭐️ Describe the functions of the organs of the body systems.
⭐️ Model & communicate the differences between animal and plant cells.
⭐️ Identify, describe & evaluate necessary and sufficient evidence for supporting a scientific idea.
⭐️ Analyze patterns within the periodic table to communicate predictions of the properties of elements.

Once you’re ready to create your first discussion Topic, you can dive right in from your Educator Admin or head to the Discovery Library for inspiration. Here is a sampling of middle grades science Topics currently available in the Disco Library, all created by your peers and ready to be used with your learners!

🚀 Discovery Library: Earth Science

Rocks and Minerals by Casey Troutman: A Topic for demonstrating knowledge of similarities and differences of rocks and minerals.

Plate Tectonics by Bree Fuller: A Topic encouraging students to model and explain plate movements and where they are most likely to occur.

Moon Phases by Sean Fahey: A Topic for students to observe the phases of the moon as they complete a video journal with their observations.

🚀 Discovery Library: Life Science

Body System Interviews by Derrick Mathis: A Topic for scientists to explain traits of an organ from an organ’s point of view.

The Characteristics of Life by Chris Casey: A Topic for students to explore knowledge and misconceptions of the characteristics of organisms.

Cell Homeostasis by Kim Guthrie: A Topic for explaining cell diffusion and osmosis.

🚀 Discovery Library: Physical Science

Potential and Kinetic Energy by Omar Lopez: A Topic for students to communicate their knowledge of potential and kinetic energy including real world examples.

Newton’s 1st Law Stop Motion Video by Christina O’Neill: A Topic encouraging students to model their knowledge of Newton’s 1st law by creating a stop motion video.

Matter Master by Andy Knueven: A Topic that provides students choice to reteach in their own way to demonstrate their knowledge of matter.

Consider this: ISTE Standards for Students 💡

Computational Thinker 5- Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions. 5B: Students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.

Creative Communicator 6 - Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals. 6C: Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

Want even more!? 🤓

💥 Join Education Innovation Leads Jornea Erwin, Jess Boyce, and Ann Kozma for a LIVE Professional Development session.

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💥 Become a Level One Flip Certified Educator.

There is no limit to the ways you can use Flip with learners in science. Dive in and help your students define and share their voice and respect the diverse voices of their peers. We are here to support you!