Years ago apps like ShowMe and Educreations helped to popularize creating whiteboard-style instructional videos. Today, screencasting tools like Screencastify and Google’s Chrome screencast tool along with Flipgrid’s whiteboard tool make it easy to create a whiteboard style video in your web browser. Regardless of the tool used, the basic premise is to draw on blank screen while talking at the same time.
Often teachers make whiteboard videos to use as lessons for their students to watch independently. But having students make videos can be a great way to learn what they know about a topic and how they think about a topic. Here are twenty five topics that you could have your students make whiteboard videos about.
Science
- Why volcanoes erupt
- The water cycle
- Ocean tides
- Tectonic plates
- Inertia
Math
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- The Pythagorean theorem
- Slope intercept form
- Compound interest
- Long division
Social Studies
- Ranked choice voting
- Branches of government
- Latitude and longitude
- Map projections
- Gerrymandering
Language Arts
- Parts of speech
- Phonics lessons
- Plot structure
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Types and structures of poems
Other
- Rules of various sports
- Bass clef and treble clef
- How to read a clock
- Verb conjugation
- How wi-fi networks work
