Wixie makes it fun to do the work and practice necessary to meet standards and learning goals. Students can use Wixie to explore the curriculum through text, original artwork, images, voice narration, and video.

Here are three ways to use Wixie to help students meet standards and learning goals.

The Curriculum Activities and  Design Templates libraries contain thousands of curriculum-aligned activities you can assign to your students. Pull from existing activities, customize them, or design and assign your own.

Original student work can also be correlated to your state standards. When student work is connected to curriculum standards, teachers can see how students progress toward their curriculum goals. 

Students need to create to learn. Rote practice may seem like the fastest way to improve test scores, but it makes learning boring. Students can use Wixie to show what they know, organize their thinking, and develop powerful products.

You can get students making in math with virtual manipulatives. Show students how math connects to art and design with projects that ask them to create with patterns, tessellations, building, and composing.

In English Language Arts, students can practice reading, writing, speaking, and listening as they write, create supporting illustrations, and record narration. It's no fun memorizing grammar rules, but making a Khan Academy-style how-to video to teach other students grammar rules is a fun opportunity for students to take pride in their knowledge and effort.

Students can share their work through a URL or export as animated GIFs, videos, PDFs, comics, trading cards, and more. Any of these product options provide authentic opportunities for narrative, expository, or persuasive writing. Students can also use a range of graphic organizers to support their research and thinking during the research and writing process.

With their wealth of information, data, and primary sources, science and social studies are great places to use Wixie for projects that require students to “gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas.” 

Work with informational text doesn't have to be boring. You just have to change the product students create to add excitement and originality to their work.

Whether you are just getting started or looking for new ideas, there are many ways to use Wixie to more effectively engage students with content and help them meet standards and learning goals.