STUDENT POST-Treasure-Fact Hunt
This is a post written by two Year 11 GCSE Citizenship students- Who lead 30minutes of the lesson.They planned this activity completely themselves- tweet them what you think www.twitter.com/BulmershePeace The Treasure-fact hunt! Resources: 10 Questions with answers 10 facts about your topic 10 envelopes Prizes? (For example, Starbursts/House Points?) How it works: Before the class […]
Cheap Shops- Brilliant lessons!
UPDATED- 29th MARCH 2014!CLICK HERE —> link FOR A VIDEO I PRESENTED AT #TMSURREY Resources:Various different Poundland resources! Or Tesco keep it handy range! Or Hobby Craft! How It Works: This post has been inspired by the excellent article about #PoundlandPedagogy by- Pimp Your Lesson Author- Isabella Wallace. Please note:There are already posts here in the toolkit about the use of Raffle Tickets, […]
U Shaped Continuum
U Shape Continuum-Resources:None!How it works:Ask students to line up in order of their level of understanding/current grade/progress… (Up to you!)From really confident/A* to really confused/U grade.You should then snake the students from the end of the line to bring all students facing each other.The really confused students should now be facing the really confident students!Teacher […]
Passing Notes
Do you remember getting told off at school for passing notes in class? That age-old teenage tradition that is now rapidly being replaced by its 21st Century counterpart: under-the-desk texting? Well for old time’s sake let’s resurrect that ancient ritual of passing notes via a lovely lesson activity that really encourages active learning… It is […]
The Dice Table
Resources: 2 Dice How It Works: Students throw 2 dice and if they get e.g. a 2 and a 4, find the box 2 across and 4 down. They need to make a sentence containing the words/picture from the 2 boxes. The question marked boxes can be any word! Students could make their own? Variations: More Pictures? […]
Writing on the…windows!
Resources: Liquid chalk pens… (Can also be found on eBay/Amazon at a good price) Task: Students writing on windows- or any glass surface!! The pens are easy to wipe off and come in a variety of colours! You can use your windows to add revision topics/key words/specialist language and so on… but why? Students enter and […]
Dictogloss
Resources: 3 versions of a paragraph of text. (Each version has more words missing.) How It Works: Share with students a paragraph of text. This can be displayed or read out loud Then display/read out the same paragraph but with key words missing/not said The final challenge display/read the text with lots of words missing/not said. Students […]
Riddles
Resources:Pre-written example of a riddlePost it notesHow It Works:The teacher shares a riddle based on a key idea or new terminology. The students then have to guess what the riddle is about. For example:I am inquisitive, but I need no answer.What am I? Hopefully they will guess: rhetorical question. Variations:Get students to write thier own […]
Go Fish
Resources – Set of facts/statements about the topic How It Works – Pass a jar round the class, selected students take a paper strip with a fact/question. They answer this, if they are stuck they have the opportunity to dip into the answer jar. The class decides if they have a ‘match’ if they […]