How we teach is constantly evolving and changing due to current global circumstances, different modes of content delivery, our curriculum, and what is essential in education. Our ways of providing and reviewing information must stay up to date with the needs of our students and what they will use moving forward into later grades and eventually, the job market.
Virtual schooling and work have become a part of how we connect and engage with one another, so a learning platform like Kahoot that has relevant games with authentic content on a range of topics, is a great resource for thousands of educators. Here are 25 ways you can incorporate Kahoot into your next lesson plan!
1. Icebreaker Templates
It's the beginning of the school year and your kids need a little help breaking the ice with their classmates. Kahoot has pre-made templates as well as blank template options you can edit and create to get to know your students and for them to get to know about each other.
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2. Back to School Quiz
On the first day of class, you want to get a sense of your student's feelings towards being back at school, if they like the subject and their learning styles. Kahoot has some ready-to-play quizzes you can go through with your students to understand their mentality going into the school year and make a plan for success!
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3. Anonymous Voting
A useful tool for making decisions as a class is voting. Standard voting can be tricky because your students might feel influenced by their peers to vote a certain way, but Kahoot gives you simple templates to make your questions clear and four options for answer alternatives your students can choose from.
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4. Trivia!
Kahoot has a huge library of review games and quizzes you can use to create trivia to make your classroom feel like a game show. You can design your own trivia based on the information you want to check, add cool visual challenges, use a timer countdown, and get your students collaborating/competitive with team mode.
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5. Kahoot Family Feud
Here is a way you can use Kahoot outside the classroom to make memories with family and friends. You can create your own trivia-style quiz regarding current events and exciting topic ideas. You can set an extended timer and each team can answer through their mobile devices.
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6. Presenting in Style
Kahoot has made making and giving presentations easier than ever with so many options for importing slides, content, videos, and more from a variety of sources. You can also incorporate quizzes, games, and voting into your presentations to make them more engaging.
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7. Puzzle Time
There are many different question methods used in the Kahoot app, true-false questions, open-ended questions, and multiple choice. The puzzles feature requires students to put the answer alternatives in order for multifaceted responses like putting dates in order, building math equations, and more!
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8. Video Conference Options
Zoom and Kahoot have collaborated to make a video conferencing tool perfect to engage all members in your remote strategy session and discussion meetings. You can use Kahoot during Zoom calls to create prompts and times for discussion as well as include open-ended questions and polls.
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9. Jumble Feature
This Kahoot feature requires students to unscramble words, sentences, dates of events, math equations, and more! Similar to the puzzle feature, jumble makes geography challenge questions, quotations, and other common topics fun to study and easy for teachers to check student understanding.
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10. Holiday Selfies: Kahoot Style!
A great way to engage with your students, better understand their culture, and help them feel safe/seen is through learning about their cultural customs and traditions. Have your students use the selfie Kahoot feature to create a mini-presentation about what they do for the holidays.
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11. Team Mode Engaged
Here is one of our favorite features to use in the class for a review of information we have already gone over, or to check students' prior knowledge on a topic we will begin. Teams of 3-4 students can share one smart device and have time for discussion before collectively choosing an answer.
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12. Question Bank
This feature was added to Kahoot in 2019 and gives teachers more help when creating their games. If you are having trouble thinking of a question for your topic, you can type in a key word (s) into the question bank window and it will provide you with questions other teachers have used in their public Kahoot games.
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13. Polls
This feature gives students a say in how they learn. You can use the polling option to check for understanding, participation, and feedback during a game or review session. Students like to make choices in real-time that affect what topics and methods are used in their education. Polls give them a voice!
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14. Word Clouds
No matter the age or subject, word clouds are a great tool to facilitate discussions about different topics, assess students' prior knowledge, discover connections between ideas, and more!
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15. Split Screen
One big problem teachers and students face when trying to incorporate digital learning into the classroom is a lack of resources such as tablets, desktops, and smart devices. The split-screen feature in Kahoot allows multiple windows to be displayed on one device so students can access and respond to quizzes and games through a single screen.
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16. Reports Feedback
There are many ways teachers and students can benefit from the reports feature on Kahoots. This tool is for formative assessment, for students to provide insight and feedback about the questions they did not understand, what they need help with, and what is too easy. Keeping a log/spreadsheet of student reports over time is great for progress checks.
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17. Multiplication Feature
This brand new Kahoot feature has over 20 mini-games created for kids to enjoy learning their times tables. There are varied tasks so students learn the math concepts comprehensively and can use them in multiple contexts.
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18. Kahoot! Kids
Kahoot Kids is an app specifically designed for young learners to have a safe space for discovery and practicing early life skills. This feature begins kids on the journey towards literacy, counting, social skills, and understanding their emotions through interactive slides, quizzes, and games. Teachers can use this tool in preschool and kindergarten!
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19. Student-Created Games
Here is a fun way to get your students involved in the test question-making process. Many teachers have found success in asking each of their students to create 1-2 questions on an exam topic they include in review sessions.
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20. Same Screen Question and Answers
For a long time, student screens for quiz and game mode on Kahoot did not have the question and answers displayed on the same slide. Now teachers have access to allow students to see them both on their screens when participating in an activity.
Learn more: Richard Byrne
21. Combining Kahoots!
Teachers love this feature because they can access and combine content from all of their previous Kahoots as well as from the public library of Kahoots made by other teachers to create a brand new Kahoot.
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22. Smart Drawing on Slides
Sometimes there are images, words, or sentences on a slide that a teacher wants to emphasize. There is now a draw feature with a pencil icon teachers can click on to make edits to their questions and pictures, save for later, or erase.
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23. True/False Questions
With a variety of options for questions in Kahoots, true/false can be effective in language classrooms. Students can learn and review pronunciations, meanings, grammar, and more. Students can do these games individually or in team mode, in the classroom, or at home!
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24. Assigning Homework
Teachers can now assign homework challenges for students to review content on their own time. They can play games individually, with their parents, or with their classmates. Feedback on homework can be viewed by the teacher in real-time to assess student participation and understanding.
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25. Template Options
There are many templates to choose from when you want to create a Kahoot. You can choose a quiz, a survey, an interactive presentation, or a game mode! Inside each template, you are able to edit, add, and change as you please.
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