25 ideas to use words in the classroom

What are the clouds of words?

Las Word clouds They are text graphic representations. They are a good resource to work with students: they put into play the linguistic intelligence and the visual intelligence, help work the synthesis capacity and encourage creativity.

In this post I propose a series of ideas, examples and tools for you to Apply the clouds of words in the classroom.

Ideas to work with clouds of words in the classroom

Language:

• From a cloud of words you have created, ask your students to believe a story using words that appear in the cloud.
• Ask students to create a cloud of words About a book that they have read, as a promotion, in order to encourage classmates to also read that book
• Copy and paste different types of words: adjectives, verbs, pronouns, nouns, etc. Ask students to analyze what word typology It is
• Present students a cloud of words related to a story. Ask them predict what it is about The story, what do they think will happen, etc.
• Ask students to create a cloud of words with Information about them: Physical description, hobbies, etc.
• Ask your students to create clouds of words on some object. Subsequently, the clouds of words will have to be exchanged between them and try to guess what it is about

Mathematics:

• Create a cloud of words about a mathematical problem
• Ask your students to create a cloud of words with vocabulary about geometric shapes
• Create a cloud of words about concepts worked throughout the unit

Foreign language:

• Ask students to create a cloud of words About the country where are the language they are studying
• Create a cloud of words with Spanish terms and its translation into the foreign language. Ask students to find and Relation of words couples
• Ask students to create a cloud of words with the New vocabulary that they have learned at the end of the quarter

Music / Plastic:

• Ask students to create a cloud of words from the song lyrics
• Create a cloud of words about biography of a famous musician or painter
• Create a cloud of words that describes a work of art and ask your students to identify what it is about
• Ask your students to create a cloud of words for a Artistic project: Design a CD cover, a shirt, a poster, etc.

Natural / Social Sciences:

• Ask your students to create clouds of words where different History periods
• Ask your students to create words of words about famous characters of history
• Create clouds of words related to geography that you are studying in class (countries of the European Union, Autonomous Communities of Spain, etc.)

Any subject:

• Create a cloud of words with objectives and contents that you are going to work along a subject. Present your students on the first day so that an idea can be made about what they will work and what they will learn
• Create a cloud of words with the vocabulary main of your subject
• Ask each student to create a cloud of words where their opinion on a topic of debate
• Ask students to create a cloud of words as Summary of a reading or video
• Create a cloud of words with names of your students
• Ask your students to do a Rain of ideas in word cloud format on the subject you are going to start working

Tools to create words clouds

• Wordle: Without a doubt, the tool to create better known words. It is a tool Sencilla and intuitive. Write the words you want to appear or hit a web link to obtain the text. You can change the orientation of words, modify typography and colors, etc.
• A day: This tool allows you to create words of words with concrete forms: star, arrow, smile, heart, etc. You can also change the typography and color of the text. In addition, it allows to incorporate text from a web link, Twitter account and RSS.
• ABCya: This tool for creating clouds of words is very simple: Ideal for the little ones.
• Wordsalad: This application allows you to create words from words from the mobile or tablet. Is available for both iOS as for Android.

And you, have you ever used the clouds of words with your students? Can you think of other ways to use them in the classroom? Share your experience!