Rainbow Words Activity on Seesaw

I shared an idea on Twitter where teachers could upload templates for high frequency words into Seesaw, and have students "rainbow write" the words using the drawing tool in Seesaw. My amazing friend Sara Malchow used Keynote to create a whole bunch of awesome templates for rainbow words, which you can access here. She also gives directions for adding these to Seesaw, where students can copy & edit to complete the rainbow words. However, using the new Seesaw update with activities, you can not only share these, but save to your activity library to use again and again. Keep reading to see how!

The new Seesaw activities feature is great and will make sharing these activities out with students so easy. However, when you have a similar activity (like rainbow words using different high frequency words), I would suggest writing the student directions in a Google Doc, where you can then copy and paste them into the Seesaw activity without having to retype each time. If you simply "edit activity", each word won't be saved into your activity library for later use (i.e. you create a rainbow word activity for "my", if you edit it to make "the", that is the only one that will be saved into your activity library.)

This technique also makes it easier to share with your colleagues - since you can't share directly from Seesaw (unless you have Seesaw for Schools, and the Schools activity library), you can create your directions in a Google doc to share with colleagues. They'll simply copy & paste from the Google Doc, add to Seesaw, insert a template and boom! Activity added!

If you'd like to access the directions I created for the rainbow words activity, you can find them here. There is also a little tutorial for adding these into Seesaw - just don't mind my daughter "helping" near the end of the video. :)