Mind Map/Musical Chairs
Resources: Teacher to put together using masking tape a number of pieces of sugar paper to create a massive piece of sugar paper; note the masking tape divides the paper up. What to do: Each ‘box’ can be assigned as a section in the exam or a key point from a text and so on. […]
Starter Main Desert
Resources: Whatever resources you need for the variety of activities you are offering. What to do: Lay out the classroom like a restaurant! Tables can be in pairs? Groups? But have banqueting paper on the tables. And Paper plates. Students to then be handed a menu! The menu should contain: 3 Starters/Mains/Desserts- Extra Hot/ Medium/ […]
Stolen Sentences
Get students to seek out help/ideas/inspiration from their peers using this simple idea!
Chat Mats
Resources – Devise your own ‘Chat Mats’ with key terminology- DL from here– Printed and possibly laminatedHow It Works Pupils will be issued ‘Chat Mats’ for a lesson and these are resources containing key phrases that will be useful during a lesson. For example, within an English lesson key sentence starters and advanced vocabulary may be of use […]
Keyword Blocks
Resources: Nothing! (A3 paper?) What to do: This can be an individual, paired, group or class activity! Depending on ability/topic of class- students are asked to draw a grid on A3 paper? In their books? E.G- 5 x 5- which makes 25 boxes. (I would use this for an A level Class- 50 Mark A2 […]
Clock Partners
Resources: None! What to do: Students are organised in a way to have multiple learning partners throughout the lesson. One o’clock partner might represent those with similar abilities, while a 3 o’clock partner might be someone who has a similar learning style. Or whatever way you want to organise them! You determine which style of […]
Convoy group work
Resources:Questions/text for students to discuss and give ideas for.How It Works:Students, in groups, organise their ideas and then send a member of the group as a convoy to another group. There, the students collect ideas from the new group. Again, the convoy changes group until they’ve been to each group and collated all the ideas. […]
Masked Learning
Resources: Need to make some masks? Characters are up to you… Make the masks relevant- At the moment Apprentice is on TV! What to do: Simple idea! When students are asked to give their opinion or to stand up at the front and talk to the class, a way to help reluctant ones is to […]
Freeze Frames
Resources:Pictures to support if neccessary.How It Works: Pupils get into small groups. They are asked physically to pose in a snapshot representation of a specific, significant moment. Pupils could work together as a group to discuss what they are being asked to depict and how it might look in a freeze frame. Groups could take […]
Bloomin’ thinking Cards
Cards to get students Bloomin’ thinking Resources: A set of Celebrity Cards, available on a Word doc. by clicking here–NEW updated Cards here by J Chappell. Rationale: The cards are a mixture of Bloom’s Taxonomy and De Bono’s Hats. The power of celebrity is the ‘hook’ here. How it works: Give each student a card. Think […]