Make Lessons Stick with Post-it® Notes and Scotch® Brand Tape
Did you know that Scotch® Brand Tape has been around for 100 years, and Post-it® Notes got their start 45 years ago? These sticky supplies have stood the test of time and have made their way into almost every facet of our lives, including the classroom! From word sequencing to STEM to poetry lessons, classroom activities using Post-it® Notes and Scotch® Brand Tape promote visual organization, collaborative learning, and active student engagement—helping students retain information and make meaningful connections. Check out 4 classroom activities that will stick with your students and comment below to tell us which is your favorite!
Make a Wind-Powered City: Use Post-it® Super Sticky Notes and Scotch® Brand Tape to create a windmill city as a class!
Subject: STEM
Grade Level: 2-5
Build a Rocket: Build rockets (and “blast” them off!) with this fun STEM activity.
Subject: STEM
Grade Level: 2-5
Know, Wonder, and Learn: Create a KWL board to pique students’ curiosity and help them visualize their learning journey.
Subject: Any
Grade Level: 2-8
Make a “What Stuck?” Board: Who needs pop quizzes? Get a sense of what students understand from each lesson with daily “what stuck” reflections using Post-it® Super Sticky Notes.
Subject: Any
Grade Level: 2-8
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75 Comments for Make Lessons Stick with Post-it® Notes and Scotch® Brand Tape
This is a wonderful article with great ideas! I often use post-it notes for student learning-KWL, brainstorming, and notes to them and they to each other. I plan to try the activities making the windmills and rockets. I teach 5th grade Science and I think they would love these! Thank you!
I use post it notes so much in my classroom! I love it for the activity when students are given an answer, and they have to Write the question or word problem on their sticky note.
I love the creativity of these different lesson plans. I have used Post-it notes many times for quick reviews, polls, and bookmarks! I would also be lost without my Scotch Brand tape for craft projects!
I haven’t tried these activities, but I would love to build a rocket with my students using post-it notes. What we have done is the KWL charts! Using sticky notes makes the activity more interactive and fun for my kindergarteners!
These are creative! I use Post-its every day- mostly to make to make to do lists and for my students to use during reading class!
Great ideas brought to Educators by Scotch and Post-It…my classroom favorites
KWL. I love using post its for this. Also, for those students who ask a million questions…it’s good to have them write their questions down and stick on the chart to be answered.
Scotch Tape and Post-it Notes areca teacher’s best friend. I use them daily. Yesterday we did a math lesson together on quadrilaterals and Post-it Notes became the tool we used to measure if the shape had right angles or not. Then would use the corner an place the shape over it. Since they had to cut the shapes, Scotch tape came to the rescue when they accidentally cut more than they should. It becomes the bandaid of class allowing students to feel comfortable with mistakes.
I love the rocket idea as well as the KWL chart! My students use sticky notes daily for quick assessments as well as sharing their ideas!
Love using sticky notes for about what kids have learned.
Love the KWL with Sticky notes and the What did you learn activity to use at the end of a lesson.
I love the “What stuck with you” today used as an exit ticket. This helps me get clarification on what kids took from the lesson as well as where I need to trouble shoot/clarify tomorrow.
I can’t wait to try the rockets with my class! They love hands-on activities!
What great ideas! I cannot wait to try the “what stuck with me” chart in my classes. Thank you for sharing!
I love using post its in the classroom. I have had srudents use them for responses, I have printed on them to provide feedback, and even used them to create works of art!
I love using Post It notes to add to a KWL chart. It’s great to get the kids thinking and moving around the room
Love the versatility of the post it. I can’t wait to use them for some of these projects, like the “Build a Rocket.” We already use them often in professional developments.
I use the “what stuck with you today” concept, but send my sticky notes through the printer to create exit tickets in the art room. Sometimes they are mini doodles that hang in a “gallery” on the way out, sometimes they have assessment questions so I can plan for the next day’s lesson.
My students enjoy using post-it notes to create KWL boards during quiz and chapter review.
What stuck board is a interesting activity which can be included for all grade levels.
The windmills are so cute, but I’m most likely to to use the Know, Wonder, Learn board.
Great ideas!
I rely on all sizes of Post-It notes with and without lines to keep me on track for everything at work and home. I also use them to leave notes on student desks.
I love all the STEM-based creations that you can make with a little tape and Post-It Notes.
I love using KWL with students using the post-its! Makes the activity- quick, easy and beneficial!!!
I love the “What stuck?” activity. Post-Its are a great way to categorize and organize group thoughts!
I love to use Post-it Notes in my classroom. I have students answer a question and then add it to the chart paper. We organize similar answers together.
I like the rocket activity. I think my kindergarteners would like to do that.
All of these ideas look amazing to use in the classroom and also during summer school. Can’t wait to try them out on my students!
I <3 the “What Stuck?” Board!
I think my high school students will participate in this quick formative assessment!
Post notes are great for KWL activities. I also like to use them for exit ticket activities. They’re so versatile they have so many uses in the classroom.
I love using the sticky notes for KWL charts when doing PBLs and other projects and activities in my class!
As a teacher, I couldn’t live without Post-it notes. If it’s not written down, it doesn’t exist!
I love using Post-it notes in my classroom. I often give my groups different colors, so I know who is answering once they post their answer/comment on the board. I always have a “How I’m Feeling”” chart paper hanging on the wall. Students use Post-It notes to to rate how they are feeling during the day. They write their names on the sticky side (the back) of the Post-It so that other students can not see where others placed their Post-it.
Post Its are wonderful for sharing ideas in class! I love the new STEM ideas!
I love using Post-Its for my graphing unit! Students vote on a post it note and create a bar graph using the post-its.
Scotch tape is an essential for any and every STEM project. Wether it is building gingerbread houses, leprechaun traps, straw rockets, or crafts- we need our scotch tape. Thank you for sharing even more amazing ideas!
I love the idea of the “What Stuck with You Today?”. It is a good way for students to reflect on their learning, and a great way for me as a teacher to observe what students are sharing about their learning.
All these activities look great! I especially like the windmills. We may try this with our weather unit in a couple of weeks.
Love a good pun – “what stuck with you today” is the easiest way to do a quick informal before students scoot out the door!
I love Post-its for 5W questions!
I LOVE using Post its in my classroom! Perfect for commenting on a bulletin board, drawing pictures and posting them in our room, and my favorite….students writing positive notes to each other and posting them on their desks!
I love Scotch brand products. I can remember using tape to put in the hem of one of my students dress, so she wouldn’t be shame. No one knew it was being held together by tape. I love using the color post-its with students as a way to communicate when they need to say something that the class doesn’t need to know.
I liked all four of the activities, but the one I like the most is the “What Stuck” board. I like polling my students to see what they have learned and what was there aha moment from the lesson. The what stuck board also helps to guide instruction to see what you will have to reteach and when you can move forward to something else.
Windmills are a hit in my classroom. The kids are so happy to not only make them, bringing them home to show moms is precious.p
I love using Post-it Notes in my classroom. At the beginning of the year, my students work in groups to write down ideas on Post-it notes for why each of our classroom rules is important. Then we group ideas together to help us create rules for our class.
Love the KWL chart idea!
I love the idea of a ‘What Stuck?’ board! Kids love writing their ideas on post-it notes; this would be a way for them to do something they enjoy, and I would get to see what they got from the lesson.
Build a Rocket looks fun. Maybe I’ll do that at day camp.
Post it notes and scotch y brands are the most reliable. I only use these for my classroom.
These are some really interesting ways to use post-it in the classroom across all grade levels.
Post-it Notes are useful in pre-k with sequencing and grouping.
I like both the windmill and the rocket. My students love creating things with STEM in mind.
Love the windmills and rockets! Very inventive way of using post-its!
While I teach high school, I think the KWL and What Stuck activities work fabulously for any grade. I use them often.
I think the rocket activity is PERFECT for STEAM club! Our students would LOVE to do this! I also love that these activities show that there are multiple ways that you can use materials! Helps students realize they should think outside of the box when it comes to creating!
I love all these ideas! I will definitely be doing these crafts
These are all great ideas! Looking forward to implementing them!
Love the “What Stuck With You Today” anchor chart!
Build a rocket is my favorite activity.
Using Post-it notes in a project is a creative and interactive way to organize ideas, encourage collaboration, and visually track progress. Their flexibility allows for easy rearrangement, making brainstorming, planning, or feedback sessions more dynamic. This approach keeps engagement high while promoting hands-on learning and adaptability.
I use Post-it’s all the time for KWL charts and anchor charts! It’s so easy to move them before my next class comes in and then be able to have multiple classes worth of answers as the end of the day.
My science MTSS group are making the rockets and are so excited!
I love post it’s for exit tickets it’s a great way to check for understanding.
Love these ideas for using post-its!
I love using sticky notes for KWL charts. I will definitely be trying the What Stuck with you Today strategy. Thanks for sharing!
I love using post it’s in my lessons. They are great sentence markers, research notes calendars and much more!!!!
I love the activity with What stuck with you today. I feel like this would be beneficial to knowing what was learned by your students in the day.
I love the activity of making a rocket STEM activity.
I love using post it notes to teach open and closed syllables in class. Additionally, I use Post-it note shapes to teach halves and fourths in my first grade class.
I love using sticky notes for an exit ticket from a lesson. Students can write or draw their thoughts quickly and when they add it to a board, they can easily see what others students are thinking. This builds community and language in my classroom.
I love having students share their ideas using post-it notes! They’re also great for covering information and revealing it piece by piece to keep students engaged. I really love the strategies shared above!
We did a Build a Rocket activity and will now try this one later and compare the two.
Post-it Notes and Scotch Brand Tape are things we use everyday in our STEM school – thank you for this opportunity.
When I taught sixth grade math, I would do activities that were called stick to it. Students would get into groups of four each person had a different colored sticky note students would all solve the same problem place. They’re sticking out in one of the four corners on the paper And then work cooperatively to explain their answer and as a group create the best answer to the math problem.
Post-it’s have been used in my class as brief ways for students to respond to questions or writing prompts. Their signature, bright and vibrant colors have encouraged even the most reluctant student to engage in the learning process. Post-it’s are crucial to my note-taking during PD. Scotch tape is for wrapping gifts to commemorate the Kodak moments in our lives. Thanks for creating such a useful and inspiring product! Congratulations on another year in business! Best wishes for future success!
I use sticky notes daily.