Exploring Choice Boards

Sheebaajmal03 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:38:37 GMT

Had an interesting session with a group of very enthusiastic educators from KIPS Education System Pakistan. In the session today while preparing for the Google For Education Level 2 Exam we practiced creating choice cards. The choice cards provide a lot of choice and voice to the students. It encourages student agency in the classroom. These choice cards can be created in different ways , it can be a 3*3 grid like a tic tac toe or 2*2 grid or a menu card or a play list. Above all, these can be designed based on skills and abilities of learners, their interests as well, according to Blooms Taxonomy as well. Creating tasks based on cognitive levels provides every learner in your class to learn in their own way. There might be learners in class that struggle with some concepts while others enjoy doing challenging tasks.

For example I tried creating a water cycle choice board for grade 5 learners using Gemini. I gave a prompt to Gemini to create a choice board for grade 5 learners that provides them the opportunity to demonstrate their learning in different ways. While giving the prompt to Gemini I mentioned creating the choice board based on Harvard Gardners 9 Intelligences. Gemini was able to create an amazing differentiated choice board where students could learn by becoming a story teller sharing their journey of a water droplet, being an animator creating frame by frame animation showing how water changes into different states, or create a multi level quiz or create a 3D model or create a poster or video tutorial etc. The next choice board I created was about a digestive system for grade 8 but the prompt stated to create a choice board based on Blooms Taxonomy. I could clearly see the variation and challenge in tasks. Learners could choose from simple to complex tasks at their own pace.

A participant shared a choice board about learning computer parts, another participant created a choice board about story elements, another created about living and non living things, heart beat and pulse and so on. Each created a different choice board.

Which is empowering like anything. So every learner who walks into my class , walks in a with varied skill set and knowledge base. And as a teacher I have to ensure every learner learns something. The learning objective remains the same but they all achieve their targets using different paths. Choice boards or menus or play lists can be the different ways to provide student agency to your learners.

With Google for Education tools this can be achieved in some wonderful ways. With Gemini and Notebooklm we can transform teaching and learning into our classroom and take it up to a whole new level, where the learner is responsible for what they learn, how they learn and how they demonstrate it.

Thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience and seeing participants sharing their choice boards made me wonder if our students could do the same in their class.

Enjoy Reading 🙂

Re: Exploring Choice Boards

Sabina_Hussaini — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:32:16 GMT

Thank you so much for sharing this, @Sheebaajmal03 !

I love your take on using choice boards to support student agency and differentiation! Choice boards were a staple in my own classroom I’m so glad to see them highlighted here. Thank you for bringing such inspiring practices to the Global GEG community!

Best,
Sabina

Re: Exploring Choice Boards

ZC — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:40:30 GMT

@Sheebaajmal03 This is awesome! Would you be willing to share the links to any of your resources here for other folx to see?

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