What five places would the learner visit and what would they study in each place? Have them mock up advertising materials for the trip with a full explanation for each destination. Invite students to create an educational road trip for someone who needs to learn the material from your class. Use the time set aside for final exams to have students present their games to each other in small groups or rotating partners. Let them know which aspects of your course, in particular, you want them to focus on, or give them a list and let them choose. Gamification is everywhere in education right now why not turn the planning over to the class? For these unconventional final exams, let each student invent a video game for your material, planning out obstacles, levels, bonuses, and bad guys. Finish the year with a social media conference in which students share the accounts they’ve created. What would the Instagram account for Algebra 2 be like? The Twitter feed for American government? The Facebook page for Honors Biology? Give your students good specifics on exactly what knowledge they need to demonstrate, then let them get creative. Let students make your course into a brand and give it a feed on social media, demonstrating their ultimate knowledge along the way. Bonus: these unconventional final exams can be used next year as helpful content for your next students. Gather the videos together in a course YouTube channel to watch on the last day of school. In groups or alone, let students pick four or five of the most crucial topics from the year and explain them in a video. These days many careers require video content creation, why not start students learning how to do it now? Draw on their natural leaning toward all things digital and social-have them show their understanding of the course by creating a YouTube channel for it. So if you’re trying to figure out how to keep things creative to the very end, here are five unconventional exams you can use as alternatives to the same old scantron.
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