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Daily Archives: 9th March 2019
Do you want your teenage students to be more active and engaged in group work? Well, this blog post has some group work gems. These activities are guaranteed to get your students moving, keep them engaged, and get them more involved in their learning!
This activity is exactly what the title suggests. You turn student teams into human photocopiers! They work in groups to create an exact copy of a document you give them. This is great for teaching new material, reviewing prior learning, or consolidating your current unit.
Before you begin, you will need to decide what you want your students to recreate. I usually create A3 sheets with information that I want my class to understand.
Each sheet needs to contain a mixture of images, labels, short phrases, and text written in long form. I don’t produce these to be beautiful (this is partly the point). They are often handwritten and my own drawings to make them a little more tricky to recreate!
Sometimes I give all the groups the same sheet to reproduce. Sometimes I give them different information sheets to reproduce and then teach the rest of the class (a bit of reciprocal teaching is always good)!
This activity is a great way to review information and ideas, as well as work on short/long memorisation of key knowledge.
This super-simple strategy helps you manage team or group work but with a twist! It creates a sense of competition and can help keep students on task.
It is really simple – just click to download this PowerPoint slide
Then set up your group or teamwork as you usually would. This time use the racehorses to track the progress of each team. The team that completes all the tasks first wins 20 pts (or whatever you choose).
I have made the file completely editable so you can adjust it to fit your classes. The clipart is royalty free.
If you follow me on IG (please do!) – then you have probably seen me talking about the power of letting students write on your desks!
Yep, I said write on your desks. Of course, what I should have added was – with a dry-erase pen. This group work idea takes writing on the tables to another level. All you need to have to run this group work activity is dry erase pens for your students!
This is a really great strategy to use for classes who get distracted during group discussions, or where some students opt-out of participating (they can scribe). I just take a photo of the debate, quick print, and they stick in their notebooks!
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