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| Give students a receipt when they hand in a piece of work/project or an essay? Ask them to value their work by their predicted grade. When you have marked it- hand back the copy and ask them to reflect |
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| Can be used as a random name selector? Can be used to pick out questions? Can be used to select groups? |
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| Blank Dice- Add a colour? A letter? A bloom stem? A Higher Order Thinking Skill? Students make up their own? Can be used in lots of ways! |
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| Students can use these for a swat the right answer activity- Or in groups- the different colours could represent different themes/marks/elements of an exam and students must hold up the right fly swat! |
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| Plastercine! The possibilities are endless! Try modeling visual representations of key concepts? |
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| Can be used to track a debate- as stated in Pimp Your Lesson- Students can pass the string around to see where a debate bounces to and from... |
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| Use pegs for a variety of lessons- Hold keywords to create a washing line? Use pegs to combine key points? Use pegs to reference pages? |
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| Design your own bunting! Laminate them and rub them out after each topic? |
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| Love these connector post it notes- possibilities are endless! |
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| I LOVE post it notes- different shapes, different sizes open up so many possibilities- such as creating student displays? Filling up different size papers- using keywords/definitions/ make a border out of display board using post it notes? |
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| Fab idea by @Johnsayers- Play Jenga- Write a question on each brick- maybe each side- colour code the pieces- levelled? or exam grade linked? Everytime a student picks a brick- they answer a question? |
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| No Hands policy- use noise makers for quizzes? |
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| Create your own jigsaws! You can write an objective on each one- then ask students to piece it together, or you can draw images that reflect the topics/learning? Or you can write keywords etc... possibilities are endless! |
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| Stickers work wonders- for all years- all subjects! Go on- buy some- the cheaper the better! |
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| Use Straws in your lessons in a variety of ways- Get students to make something- i.e to represent an objective covered- or they pick a straw- the colour= represents differentiation and so on! |
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| Use inflatable dice in many ways- Roll a dice- the number refers to their response- 1= state 2= + describe 3= + explain 4= + compare 5= +suggest alternatives 6= +Bonus question? |
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| Tin foil- can be used much like plastercine- its cheaper, more malleable and very fun to play with! Curtain hooks- can hook on keywords- toothpicks stuck into blue tac can be used for key terms? |
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| Toothpicks and blue tac- How could you use them? I use them like a cafe- I stab the question through the toothpick- move from order to served pile? |
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| Can be used in a variety of ways- but all link to hanging off keywords/themes/concepts...you can use string to make hanging more secure? |
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| Use these coloured egg capsules to put questions inside- the colours can be used for whatever you wish? harder? easier questions? teams? type of questions? command words? these can be used as a treasure hunt? or simply given to students? |
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| An inflatable can be used to pass around the room- students can only talk if they are holding the inflatable? Or students can scaffold answers by passing to somebody else- use the Pose, Pause, Pounce, Bounce strategy! |
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| Really cheap way of engaging students in competition- or rewarding hard work/good work- you can give gold silver bronze and trophies! |
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| I love these mini trophies- put a little choc in them and students are mega proud to receive them! Take a picture of the winners too! |
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| lots of different activities are possible with these- 6 thinking hats? Taboo activity? Guess the defendant? Poet? Theorist? |
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| Buy those cheap puzzle books- photocopy/use those quick fire questions? |
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| 10 Clues is an amazing game to play with students- then get them to make their own 10 clues that link to strategies/keywords/topics and so on! |
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| Plastic CD cases can be used in a variety of ways- how about hole punching them together to make a domino style key word game. or have an explanation on one side and worked example on the other- or a picture on one side and a keyword on the other? |
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| Use bunting- make a washing line of learning? A keyword line? A list of useful words? Phrases? Pictures? Get students to write command words on them? |
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| Student can shoot their arrow- the number they hit- determines the level of question and in turn the points they will earn! This can also be used a 'Spin your question activity' |
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| Students go head to head against one another/teams- Team who wins/answers better- takes a red token- points added up at the end! Black tokens can be used as 'Ask a friend?' |
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| Paper plates can be used in many different ways- For healthy eating programmes? takeaway homework? venn diagrams? looking at area/space organising/grouping information and so on! |
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| Students pass around the hot potato- whoever the music stops to- they answer questions from the others |
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| Buy a hot potato- that sings! |
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