Clicker Activities

These clicker activities and CPS databases will give you just the jumpstart you need to get started implementing eInstruction clickers in your classroom.

Contrary to what many educators assume, making content for your student response system doesn't have to be difficult or time-consuming. In addition to quickly importing an entire question bank from ExamView, you will find that there are a variety of different interactive quizzes and clicker-ready activities available on the Internet.

This page will give you a boost to finding clicker activities to engage and motivate your students. However, you may also find some great links in our whiteboard activities to use with your clickers. The activities below consist of interactive quizzes, games, flash movies, and PowerPoint resources that are well-suited to use with clickers.

These clicker activities can easily be incorporated with CPS in verbal mode; simply use CPS right over the top of the Internet.

There is no way this could be an all-inclusive list, so we've also included some starting points for searching for your own clicker activites, as well as a few links to CPS databases we've found scattered over the Internet. We have also included some PowerPoint resources that may be easily customizable you just by opening them with CPS PowerPoint and inserting in your own clicker questions.

In addition to the resources listed below, eInstruction's recently launched eI Community provides a resource for educators to check out blogs and participate in discussion boards to find out the latest educational "buzz," as well as to share their high-quality resources. Resources are searchable and contain a variety of file types, including CPS Databases, ExamView banks, content bundles, images and PDFs, Adobe Flash objects, Microsoft Office documents, text files, video, and audio. This is not only a great resource to get resources, but a fantastic venue to share your own!

Clicker Friendly Web-Based Activities

• freerice.com
  A source for clicker-friendly questions, perfect with your CPS clickers, dealing with several subjects (famous paintings, basic math, multiplication tables, chemistry symbols, english grammar and vocabulary, identifying countries and world capitals, French, German, Italian, or Spanish). For every question you answer correctly, FreeRice donates 10 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger. See our blog post about www.freerice.com...
• FactMonster
  quizzes over lots of topics
• NCES KidZone - Dare to Compare
  compare quiz scores with students nationally
• Olathe School District Technology Links for Teachers
  websites by subject area
• Olathe School District Web Resources for grades K-6
  grade level web resources with some fantastic interactive activities
• Oswego City School District Regents Exam Prep Center
  great MC quizzes
• Hundreds of Teacher-Created PowerPoints
  Use With CPS For PPT!
• Pete's Power Point Station
  PowerPoints on every subject!

CPS Database Resources

• BHI CPS Databases
  A few databases covering 4th grade science topics such as adaptation, earth, ecosystems, FOSS matter, and science fair and science skills. Also includes a 5th grade math database. over The Outsiders, Tom Sawyer, The Giver, and Charlotte Doyle
• CPS Lesson for Middle School Language Arts
  Databases include grammar and parts of speech and some great sample databases over The Outsiders, Tom Sawyer, The Giver, and Charlotte Doyle

Click here to find interactive activities by subject area!