Drag and Drop Guide

What are Drag and Drop Activities?

A method of visual sequencing and association - graphical ways of working with ideas and presenting information. Visual learning is one of the best methods for teaching thinking skills. Visual learning techniques teach students to process, organize and prioritize new information. Visual diagrams reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies while stimulating creative thinking.

Advantages for use in the classroom:

• Help students clarify thinking by seeing how ideas are connected and
  realize how information can be grouped or organized.
• Students recreate, graphically, what they've learned. This helps them absorb and
  internalize new information.
• Integrate new knowledge and build on prior knowledge and
  internalize new information helping facts and ideas fit together.
• Can easily correct misconceptions.

Disadvantages:

• The process is difficult to recreate without an electronic device.

Examples:

• Place the State
  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html
• Word Drag and Drop
  http://www.prongo.com/drag/
• Drag and Drop Genetics
  http://www.zerobio.com/drag_gr11/mono.htm
• Learning English Drag and Drop
  http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?catid=59788&docid=154404
• Roving Mouse Interplanetary Drag and Drop
  http://www.roving-mouse.com/planetary/sizes.html
• Check out these other examples:
  • Label a Map
  • Homonyms (Place the word in the correct blank)
  • Timeline
  • Venn Diagrams: definition 1, definition 2, sample lessons, instructions

Your task is to create a "drag and drop" using MS PowerPoint. You may choose to create a "student sample" or a mock-up of what you would expect students in your classroom to create for you as a product OR you may choose to create a drag and drop that students would use as part of a class assignment.

Make sure that your drag and drop meets the criteria from the checklist and should include the following:

• A "container" object set up on the Master Slide page (including a Title of the activity, your name and date of this project)
• A minimum of TEN drop objects including at least ONE of each of the following types:
  • Text box with colored font/line around the text box
  • ClipArt graphic grouped with a text box caption
• Any ClipArt graphics selected from the Internet MUST be documented with URL
• A second slide will be inserted to hold the correct answer.
• Save the PowerPoint presentation and submit to Dr. F via email.

2) Construct your Drag and Drop:

Use the Drag and Drop Cheatsheet to construct the activity. Use the criteria sheet to be sure you have completed the activity correctly.