How simple and effective it can be to utilize MEMEs in an academic setting and tie them to any curriculum.

1. For the love of Andromeda, meme me up Scotty!
STUDENT OBJECTIVES: The Student(s) will…
• Identify specific areas within the classroom or around the school to promote school
related ideas.
• Expand their understanding and use of technology in the classroom
• Utilize higher order thinking skills (H.O.T. skills) to develop image-use and sayings that
are school related, student friendly, rules compliant, and promote the school/school
programs…while having fun.

2. TOPICS for your MEMES:
• Class rules/School rules
• Ice-breakers
• New student orientation
• Promoting school clubs/organizations
• Promoting curriculum/literature
• Teacher--student communication
What are some ways to utilize memes
with your students?

3. This isn’t a game of stump-the-chump. You can have fun with this!
Think about some of the discussions in the classroom between the
teachers and students…some of the significant curriculum
topics/articles/documents/literature that have been dissected in class...
when you work on this, you are tying your creativity, your intellect, your
tech savvy mind(s)…
and you are limited only by your own imagination, and this DISCLAIMER!
STUDENTS:
-will NOT use any profane language
-will NOT use any inappropriate images for your meme
-WILL cite your work
-All your work WILL be in accordance with your student handbook guidelines
-WILL comply with the rubric/measuring tool presented by teacher

4. You can start with the website https://imgflip.com/memegenerator
I know this goes against my preferred rule of
‘SCHOOL IS NO PLACE TO HAVE FUN’ but there are
exceptions to every rule.
You can have students practicing both creative and
critical thinking while generating memes related to
a UNIT/CLASS you are teaching, a school PROGRAM
you are a part of, support CLASSROOM/SCHOOL
RULES, and even interactions between STUDENTS &
TEACHERS. Keep in mind the option of NEW
STUDENT ORIENTATION ideas, etc.

8. Category 10> <7> <4> <0
Always try to present the students
with a RUBRIC to guide their
creativity and output.

9. Some student generated MEMEs

10. “Synonyms”
TEACHER SAYS—”Minimum one page assignment.”
STUDENTS HEAR—”Maximum one page assignment.”

11. Double Standards
“Hold on, I have to yell at a student
for being on his cellphone in class.”

12. When I am in a hurry to get to class
before the bell…
When I have a hall pass and all the
time in the world…
Passing Periods and Hallways

13. Saw a piece of trash in the halls by the
locker and picked it up and threw it in the
trashcan.
Teacher saw me and called my parents to
tell them how wonder I was at school today.

14. What I feel like
when all the
students have
their name on
their paper.

15. Not in Dress Code?
…that’s A Paddlin’

16. That one moment…
…When you develop the urge to yell out the right answer to a
problem. Then the teacher looks at you.. But calls on the
person next to you… And he/she gets it wrong!

17. When you realize that there is a back side to
your homework… the moment it is due!

18. That face you make when your
parents yell at you for having a B

19. That face you give your friend
when they ask how to do the math
homework

20. If you could stop tapping your
pencil… That ‘d be great.

21. One does not simply…
…write your answers without showing your work.

22. When the teachers say the
homework is “easy”

23. Teacher expectations are too dang diddly high

24. V
So you’re telling me
I have to eat that
School Lunches

25. No one wants to see that!
Pull up your pants!

29. Leaving on Fridays be like…