Starters

Noughts and Crosses

Select 9 key terms or 9 questions that need to be answered. Pupils play a traditional game of O and X and see who wins! Noughts and Crosses

Padlet

A digital canvas that allows you to create discussion boards in your lessons. Students are able to add to your board to give their opinion, demonstrate their learning or answer a given question. The Padlet E- Learning Express session took place on 11th October 2017 showing how to set up a discussion board as well …

What would happen if…

Pupils are faced with scenarios, photos, images which can be placed onto the PowerPoint to which they have to consider the likely reaction or likely next steps or the impact that would happen after a particular event.

Two truths and a lie

To review prior learning pupils have to identify from three statements which is the lie, easy to get quick feedback by indicating A, B, or C which is the lie and why.

True or false

A set of statement or facts is listed, either on the board or using cards. Pupils indicate if they are correct or incorrect (using red/green cards) and should be expected to say why.

Topic Tennis

In threes pupils play a word association game. Select a topic and see who can come up with as many related, different points to win the game, score like in tennis. In the teams there should be 2 players and one referee.

Think, pair, share

On mini-white boards or post its, pupils have 1 minute on their own to write down two things learnt (last lesson or this lesson). Then in pairs, they have 1 minute to make it 4 things. Then two pairs combine and have to make it 8 things. This could also be used to generate ideas …

Taboo

Pupils choose a card from a bag that contains a term they have learnt in the lesson (it might also have other associated words that they cannot use). They must describe this term to the class or their partner, without using the word itself. The class/partner must write down what they think it is on …

Scrabble tile

Pupils have to make as many words they can related to a topic using scrabble tiles. Then calculate how many points each word is worth! They can’t repeat letters- they can only use what is shown!

Scattergories

In teams, give pupils a letter and some categories of things to come up with that begin with that letter. If they think of an answer no one else has they get points (5 per word).