Elizabeth+Busboom's+Hot+Potatoes

= **Tool: Hot Potatoes** =

**What is Hot Potatoes:**

Hot Potatoes is a website where you can download a program for your computer. With the program Hot Potatoes you are able to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-filling activites that help your students learn.

**Link:**

=  [|Hot Potatoes Website]   =

**Ways you can use this in the classroom:**


 * I plan on using the program Hot Pototoes as a way to help my students review a topic before a test. I could create a interactive multiple-choice review and display in on the Smart board. Students could take turns coming up and answering questions. This would make learning more visual and hands-on.
 * I could also use the program Hot Pototoes to create a matching game for my students. Each week we work on building vocabulary. I could create an activity where they have to match the word with the correct definition.
 * Another way I could use the program Hot Pototes is to create short-answer questions. Special education students often struggle with writing and taking tests. As a group we could go over what to do with short-answer questions and practice building our skills.