Active quiz Instructions: The teacher asks a question within a given subject and if the student can answer the question the aim is to be the fastest to perform an active challenge. Some examples could be standing on a chair, sitting on a table, spinning around themselves, clap five times etc. The fastest one to …
Get together Instructions: Students are each given a note with a calculation written on it. All of the notes are different but the answers of the calculations are paired. The students go around talking to each other and exchange notes with those that they need. When the teacher shouts ‘stop’ the aim is to work …
Write away Instructions: The students have to write on the blackboard or on a piece of paper which is hanging on the wall. The students are divided into groups and stand in rows 3 meters from the board. The teacher says an academic question/theme from which the students brainstorm all of the ideas, terminology and …
One big chaos Instructions: The teacher places a lot of different cards or pieces on paper randomly on the floor or the tables. The cards could contain many different letters, words or numbers etc. In languages the groups could select a number of letters from which they have to make as many words as possible …
Speed dating Instructions: Half the students stand in a circle and they turn around with their backs to the middle of the circle. The other half of the students forms a circle around the original circle so that they stand opposite and face to face towards each other. Students are asked to shake hands with …
Dice-running Instructions: 11 are placed in a circle with the numbers 2-12 along with an extra cone in the middle with some dice. Each group roll the 2 dice and if they were to throw a 3 and a 4 the group would run to cone number 7 etc. Several tasks are placed by each …
Around the subject Instructions: 8-12 posts are made in a circle. The students are in groups and find a post each where there is an academic task which needs to be solved in a short amount of time e.g. 3 minutes. When the time is gone, the students run on to the next post. The …
The train station Instructions: The teacher asks an academic question. The students walk around the train station and ask the question to the people they meet on the platform. When the teacher whistles for departure the students return to their seats on the train. The teacher can also give a new task which needs to …
For or against Instructions: The teacher presents an expression which deals with opinions, values or dilemmas. The students now place themselves on a line across the room where one outer point represents ‘completely agree’ the other outer point represents ‘completely disagree’. Some examples of expressions: The cloning of animals is a good idea (biology) The …
The journalists Instructions: One half of the students are journalists and interview the other half of the students. The teacher asks an academic question or chooses an academic theme. The journalists then chose a ‘victim’ from the other half of the group to be interviewed in relation to the subject. When the time is up …
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