Dry Erase Dice for A Future Ready Learning Studio

2/11/2019

What is a Future Ready Learning Studio?
In the Three Phases of Blended Learning workshops, we refer to a Future Ready Learning Studio as a place in the room where students can showcase their understanding of a concept through

creativity
collaboration
communication
critical thinking
connectedness

The primary purpose of designing a future-ready learning studio is to provide the tactile learners a chance to explore the content through a different medium. Note that all of the learning studios are interconnected. Meaning that the same learning target is being taught in the mini-lesson, practiced in the independent learning studio, retaught in the digital content, and showcased in the future ready learning studio.

What is your learning style?

Take a twenty question quiz to find out your learning style. After the student complete the activity, print out their results and add the document to their student profile cards or data folders.

Using Dry Erase Dice in a future ready learning studio

Dice Ideas

Math

Rolling variables for math problems
Geometry Vocabulary Charades - Act out the vocabulary word
Positive and Negative Integers

Social Studies

Timeline of Events
Famous people
Cause and Effects

English Language Arts

Book Chat Questions
Parts of speech
Presentations

Physical Education

Roll a sport
Roll a yoga pose
Circuit Training

Science

Roll a compound
Landforms
Presentations

Coding

Practice writing code with direction dice
Code Vocabulary
Sphero Code Challenge

Website Links

Toontastic
Story Board That
Smore
Canva
Thinglink
Emaze

Future Ready Learning Studio Misconception

A future-ready learning studio activity can take place over a couple of days. For example:
Monday - the students roll the dice to learn new vocabulary words
Tuesday - the students can play a game of charades to practice the words
Wednesday - the students can build a song that helps them to remember the words
Thursday - the students record the song on FlipGrid or Seesaw.me
Friday - the students listen or watch other group presentations.

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25 Comments

Tara link

2/20/2019 08:37:54 am

Use dice to play various multiplication games.

Jennifer Castro

2/20/2019 09:09:34 am

I would use the dice to create fractions... numerator and denominators and then have students work on turning these fractions into decimals.

Jenn

3/7/2019 01:24:53 pm

I will add dice into my social studies class to roll for vocabulary. Students can the activities through the week.

Mayra Herrera link

3/7/2019 01:38:45 pm

I can use the dry eraser during Language Arts for reading:
1. Creating an alternative ending to the story.
2. Create a new problem and/or solution to your story.
3. Predict what will happen in the story.
4. Create a new book cover.
5. Read your favorite part to a friend.
6. Recommend or not this book to another student.

Kimberly Marshall

3/7/2019 01:23:52 pm

In my classroom, I can use the dry erase dice to include components of a piece of writing (Fiction: setting, type of characters, etc; Nonfiction: topic, opinion, persuasive, etc.).

Students roll the dice to determine specific aspects of their story. Then write, illustrate, and "present" the story via SeeSaw.

Monica link

3/7/2019 01:29:04 pm

I can use dice when learning about place value. Have students roll the dice, a number is created and students can write their number in standard form, word form and expanded form.

Holly

3/7/2019 01:39:29 pm

I love using two dice to work on adding two groups with my kindergartners. I also love using dice to work on counting on. Kids can roll one dice to see where to start, then roll a second dice to see how many numbers to count on using a number line.

Danielle Murawski

3/7/2019 01:41:45 pm

Have students practice sentences in target language - one dice has subjects; one has verbs; one has "no" on 3 sides/blank on 3 sides...students roll and create sentences using the info they rolled (and adding any other words to complete the sentence).

Tashia Buccioni

3/7/2019 01:42:16 pm

I love to use the dice in my Spanish 1 classroom to help students practice conjugating verbs. Although I like to spend a good deal of time building proficiency, this is a fun and hands-on way to drill accuracy without feeling like a drill. One dice has pronouns written on the sides and the other has different verbs. They roll each and have to conjugate the given verb for the given pronoun.

jduane

3/7/2019 02:20:54 pm

Dry erase dicecould be used in a variety of ways to help kids practice nomenclature, ID types of reactions and predicting products in single replacement (SR) rxns...
1) write the name of the polyatomic ion on the dice, they have to write the formula or vice versa
2) one di has cations the other has anions. they roll and by combining both dice, the name of the compound is formed. They have to write the formula.
3) different reactions are written on the dice. The kids have to determine the type of reaction represented-Comp, Decomp. SR, DR, Combustion.
4) Predict products in single replacement reactions: one di has different metals and the other di has aqueous ionic compounds. Roll to reveal the reactants in the SR rxn. Detemine if rxn occurs, predict the products, write a balanced chemical equation

Jenn Schulz

3/11/2019 08:14:27 am

As a preschool teacher, one way we use dry erase dice is by putting pictures of different structures (house, school, bridge, etc.) on the sides of the cube. Students roll the cube and then use materials provided in the Blocks center to build that structure.

Jennifer

3/11/2019 08:17:48 am

I would use dry erase dice with my students for nearly any of the classes I teach. In my reading class right now we are working with Text Structure, I could see myself using these dice for something with text structure.

Melissa

3/11/2019 08:23:04 am

I use dice to create addition and subtraction problems. They then choose 1 problem to take a picture of and post to SeeSaw.

Molly

3/11/2019 08:31:01 am

I could see using dry erase dice in the English 9 classroom to review how to evaluate an argument. Students read an article(s). One dice contains validity, sufficiency, relevancy, false statements, and faulty logic. The other dice contains various ways to show their learning like Smore, Seesaw, Powtoon, Pixiclip, and VoiceThread.

Andrea

3/11/2019 08:36:24 am

I would use dice in planning stories. I use legos to help students build their stories before writing, but can still get stuck expanding their ideas. The dice options can provide direction to students while still giving them choice for how they use it.

Kris

3/11/2019 08:36:40 am

One way I would use dry erase dice is with grammar. They could roll a verb and then roll past, present,or future, and record the word or write it correctly in a sentence.

Martha

3/11/2019 08:41:57 am

In Video Production class, we could use the dice to create interesting plot/character combos that students could then use to create a short storyboard or the actual video story that incorporate the creative shot angles we are using in our stories. Sometimes just coming up with the story idea is the hard part. Students could collaborate with a partner or group which would incorporate the 4Cs.

Nathan

3/12/2019 08:14:46 am

I can use the dice for various activities in physical education. I could use the dice for our daily warm-up. Instead of telling the students how much to run, how many push-ups to do, etc., they would be able to decide it for themselves. I could also use this in our yoga, swimming, and many more units.

Tara

3/12/2019 08:19:33 am

I can use the dry erase dice for students to roll kinesthetic/movement ways to apply a new skill.

Cheryl

3/11/2020 05:04:35 pm

I read the blog post, "Dry Erase Dice for a Future Ready Learning Studio." A teacher could use the dice to help students work on mathematics or SBAC vocabulary.

Rhonda Goldmann

2/9/2021 11:07:00 am

I would use the Dry Erase Dice for students who cannot decide on a format for their presentation. I often use a RAFT menu for projects in which students select a Role, Audience, Format and Topic. A dry erase dice could easily be used here.

Crystal

9/20/2021 05:43:56 pm

I would use the dice to describe things we learned in class that day using sentence stems.

Carmen Lozano

11/14/2021 04:10:42 pm

For special education students you can use this to teach and practice social skills. For example one may be a specific skill they need to work on like asking for help and the other may be the person/location they have to ask for help. If a student rolled asking for help they could roll while in the grocery store. This skill can carry over as they will need specific social skills when out in the community.

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