bell-ringer activities Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/bell-ringer-activities/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:06:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 20 digital bell ringer activities to kickstart class https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1 https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2020 04:21:56 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5720 Quality bell ringers are crucial — quick activities to get students going at the beginning of class, when the bell has just rung. For these first five or ten minutes of class (OK, probably more the five than the ten), we have our students’ most attention. It’s the most focused they’ll likely be for us all […]

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