Evaluating a Flipchart
When evaluating a flipchart, think about what is a quality lesson. Lesson objectives should be well established, essential
question, expected outcomes (understandings and/or skills), SOL’s addressed, instructional activities (mini lesson or
lecture, group interactive activity, individual activities that might be shared, etc), and assessment plan should be
evident.
One of the most powerful features of a flipchart is the ability for students to interact with the board. That interactivity
could be students manipulating media (text, graphics) on the board or students responding (verbally through a
think/write/share activity or with an Active Vote/Expression) and finally assessment (using hands, paper, ACTIVote or
ACTIVexpressions).
Title Page
 Flipchart Title and Subject
 Teachers Name and Date
Flipchart Summary Page
 Statement of objective(s) or essential question
 Outcomes – Understandings and/or Skills
 VA Standards of Learning (SOL)
 List of Instructional Activities (mini lesson/lecture, individual or group activities, etc.)
 Assessment Activities
Notes:
 Page contains notes to direct teachers on how to implement the flipchart page during the lesson. If there are no
notes for the page state “No notes for this page”
 If page is interactive, point out the actions on the page
 If you have used objects from the resource library, put folder/path to those objects
 Optional Tips or Hints for students with special needs
Design
 Graphics and images are engaging, age appropriate, and enhance the content
 Font, size, and color of text is of appropriate scale to the page and viewers
Multimedia
 Flipchart includes multimedia: web links, sounds, images, and/or video
Assessment
Flipchart has at least one of the following:
 Page with pre-assessment to determine knowledge of students on topic (use hands, paper, ACTIVote or
ACTIVexpressions) related to outcomes stated above
 Page(s) with formative assessment (use hands, paper, ACTIVote or ACTIVexpressions)
 Page with post-assessment to see if the students have mastery
 Assessment page(s) has pre-prepared questions and space allocated for ad hoc questions.
Use of Advanced FlipChart Design Tools
Flipchart reflects use of at least two of the following:
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Lesson-building template
Containers and/or Restrictors
Translucency
Appearance Properties
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Actions
Recording
Annotation over Desktop
Layering
Loudoun County Public Schools, Technology Resource Services, 2009
Loudoun County Public Schools, Technology Resource Services, 2009