# @edutopia on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CFIsmKXlwwz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20304338-edutopia-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-09-14T23:46:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Edutopia (@edutopia) — https://gondola.cc/edutopia

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Closure refers to an activity that ends a lesson and creates a lasting impression, a phenomenon called the recency effect. Teachers can use closure activities to check for student understanding, emphasize key information, correct misunderstandings, and tie up loose ends. ⁣

Here are 5 creative closure activities that work in both distance and in-person learning: ⁣
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1. Parent Hotline: Ask students an interesting question about the lesson, but don't discuss it. Email their guardians the answer so that the topic can be discussed over dinner.⁣
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2. DJ Summary: Learners write what they learned in the form of a favorite song. Offer extra praise if they sing it to someone else.⁣
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3. Teach a Younger Child: Have kids orally describe a concept, procedure, or skill in terms so simple that a younger child would get it.⁣
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4. Students I Learned From the Most: Kids write notes to peers describing what they learned from them during class discussions.⁣
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5. Simile Me: Have students complete the following sentence: “The [concept, skill, word] is like _____ because _____.”⁣
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- From Todd Finley, Educator⁣
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