Answer Garden

Welcome to another online tool to allow for Formative Assessment and engage students in discussion. Answer Garden allows the teacher to set up a website that gathers student input and ideas. As students answer a question prompt, their answers appear on the home Answer Garden screen set up by the teacher. Both teacher and students have an opportunity to see what the ideas of the crowd really are. It is simple to use. Since this is a open web tool students should be reminded to not answer with personal or identifying information. No student log in is required. Ways to use Answer Garden:

• Pose a Driving Question
  
• Collect ideas and opinions
  
• Look for adjectives that describe a character in a book
  
• Use as a polling mechanism... large words most popular
  
• Look for number of class that can get a correct answer
  
• Incorporate in a Socrative Seminar
  
• Align words to an idea, concept, place, or object
  
• Compare and contrast using two Answer Gardens
  
• Exit ticket of a learned concept
  
• Get feedback on an upcoming test
• Your idea
  

Answer Garden can also be uploaded to Wordle or Tagxedo to create a Word Cloud. In the area below take a moment to learn more about how to use Answer Garden.


Opportunities To Learn More About Answer Garden

Check out this Quick Start Guide
Look at this demonstration of Answer Garden
Learn more about Answer Garden with these Facts
Answer Garden One Page Direction Sheet
Watch below video