Monday, November 29, 2010

Classroom Activity - Review Relay

Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to review the learning by students in a particular session. It is high-energy physical review of learning which is good for engaging unmotivated students.

Number of people: Any group size up to 40

Material: Coloured Markers

Time: 10-15 minutes

Directions:
1. Divide the class into three or four teams, depending on numbers, of up to ten students.
2. Give each team a different coloured marker (red/blue/green/black) and get teams to think of a team name for comedy value.
3. Divide the board into 4 sections with team names written at the top of each section in the relevant colour.
4. One person from each team starts by writing on their team area one thing they have learned during the lesson. They come back, hand the pen to another person in their team and then the second person writes something they have learned (It must be different from the previous ones). The winning team is the one with the most new things learned.

Note: Teacher can differentiate by making sure less able children are at the front of each line and more able towards the end – it obviously gets harder to think of additional facts as the game progresses.