Drag & Drop Activities!

Drag & Drop Activities

How to create and use Drag & Drop activities in your next lesson/ training.

Our lesson goals

At the end of this instruction, learners will be able to recognize different types of drag and drop activity options.

At the conclusion of this lesson, learners will create and submit their own background for their future drag & drop activity.

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INTRODUCTION

DID YOU KNOW?

“About two-thirds of teachers (65%) say they use digital learning tools to teach every day; 22% use them a few days a week, and 13% use them once or less per week. More than half of teachers (53%) report that their students use digital learning tools every day to learn.”

Education Technology Use in Schools - Newschools Venture Fund, www.newschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Gallup-Ed-Tech-Use-in-Schools-2.pdf. Accessed 26 Nov. 2023.

DO YOU REMBER?

playing a matching card game?

learning to read and your teacher would use sight cards?

flash cards to help you study and retain information for an upcoming test?

counting activity when learning addition or multiplication?

WELL, DRAG AND DROP ACTIVITIES ARE A NEW TWIST ON THESE OLD WAYS!

What is A Drag & Drop Activity?

"Drag & drop activities are commonly used as a digital assignment for students where students get to practice what they’ve learned by dragging and dropping objects or labels to their correct location."

It is a "pointing device gesture in which the user selects a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object."

Bell, Kasey. “How to Create Drag and Drop Activities with Google Slides - Suls027.” Shake Up Learning, 3 Feb. 2021, shakeuplearning.com/blog/how-to-create-drag-and-drop-activities-with-google-slides-suls027/.

“Drag and Drop.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 31 Oct. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_and_drop.

"Drag and drop activities are a fun and interactive way to engage students in the classroom. With the rise of technology and the use of online teaching tools, draggable slide objects have become a popular teaching tool that educators use to help students visualize and understand complex concepts."

Paige Puntillo, 2023

“8 Ways to Use Drag & Drop Activities as a Class.” ClassPoint, www.classpoint.io/blog/ways-to-use-drag-and-drop-activities-as-a-class. Accessed 26 Nov. 2023.

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Use in the Classroom

Why should teachers use Drag & Drop activities in the classroom?

1. It allows the teacher to assess different skills 2. Create training / practice experiences that are engaging

3. Can be used to introduce new content or review past content. 4. Fun & engaging!

+ Resources

Things to consider

1. What are different ways to present the information? 2. What are ways problems can be solved? 3. Is a drag & drop activity approprate for the learning outcome

+ Resource

Crawshaw, Ceara. “Drag & Drop UX Design Best Practices.” Pencil & Paper, 27 Oct. 2022, pencilandpaper.io/articles/ux-pattern-drag-and-drop/.

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Examples of Drag & Drop Activities

Examples -

Labeling - could be used to practice vocabulary words or to label parts of diagrams.

Examples -

Sorting & Sequencing - help students understand the order of events or to sort information.

Examples -

Fill in the Blank - A great way to measure specific knowledge. Can be used in multiple subjects and level of difficulty can be increased based on personal objectives.

Examples -

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Check point

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HOW

Click Here for access to the training video.

How to:

build your background for drag & drop activitie

Takeaways

• Drag & drop activities are fun ways to engage students.
• Drag & drop activitis can assess different skills.
• Can be a great way to introduce new content or review content
• Several styles of drag & drop activities to choose from.
• May take time and effort to create, but can be reusable from year to year!

Additional Learning Resources

Video - Creating Drag & Drop

Video- Teaching with Drag & Drop

Blog- 5 ways to use Drag & Drop Activities

Blog- Using Drag & Drop Activities in eLearning

Blog- How to Create Drag & Drop with Google Slides

final assessment(s)

Practice

Create

You will create your own background for a future drag & drop activity. Please submit a screen shot of your completed background via email: amandav@bgsu.edu

Want some additional practice? Using the provided resources on the next slide create your very own drag & drop activity!

Background should include the following:

1. Atleast 1 color
2. Atleast 1 image
3. Atleast 1 textbox

questions or feedback?

Please reach out via email at amandav@bgsu.edu I look forward to hearing from you!

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