Educational Value of Wordle

During our Morning Meeting this week, I asked my first graders, "What do we need to be healthy?" Since we have not started our nutrition unit yet, I wanted to see what words "popped" into their minds. I asked them to answer with only one word. This apple word cloud represents their thoughts. Looks "Nutritious and Delicious!"

Displaying information in a word cloud format provides a fun visual for students to "see their thoughts" on paper. The number of times the words appear represents the number of times the same answer was given. Printing and posting student generated words on paper around the classroom also creates a specific "word wall" resource for children to use while learning about a particular unit or subject. In this case, my students will have their "healthy" words to reference throughout our Nutrition unit.