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Starters
Compare and contrastA starter activity in which students are given two items and asked to consider the differences and similarities between them (subscription only) |
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RecapA starter briefly recapping this lesson, meant to be used as a starter in the following lesson. (subscription only) |
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3-2-1Lesson starter. Display this on the whiteboard as students are walking through the door. They can work individually or in pairs to come up with the answers. Good for differentiation as all students should be able to get at least one of the six points. (subscription only) |
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Questions to askA starter task. Students are given a list of categories and asked to write down the questions they would like answered from today's lesson (subscription only) |
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Ten QuestionsA lesson starter activity. A volunteer (either a student or class teacher) is given a slip of paper so they know 'what they are'. The rest of the class can ask up to a maximum of 10 questions to guess what they are. The volunteer can only answer 'yes' or 'no' (subscription only) |
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Starters or plenaries
Pick meThis provides a differentiated starter or plenary activity. Students are given a question and work in groups to come up with an answer. (subscription only) |
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Give me tenA starter or plenary task. Students work in pairs before joining up with another pair to expand their list. (subscription only) |
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Just a minuteStarter or plenary task. Students are asked to talk to a partner about this topic for 60 seconds whilst abiding by a set of rules (subscription only) |
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Three factsA starter or plenary task in which students are asked to write down three facts that they can remember off the top of their heads about the topic. (subscription only) |
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What's your opinion?Starter and plenary task. Students are given a statement about this topic and asked to discuss their opinion in pairs. At the end of the lesson they can reassess whether their original opinion has changed (subscription only) |
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What? Why? How?Starter or plenary task. Students are asked three questions framed as “What?” “Why” and “How?” (subscription only) |
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Plenaries
TalkaboutA plenary task. Students work in pairs with one student talking about the topic and the other monitoring how many of the displayed key words they mention. (subscription only) |
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TabooA plenary activity. This task follows the traditional Taboo game. Students work in teams with one student from each team having their back to the board. A word is displayed on the board and teams take it in turns to describe the word to the student without actually mentioning the word itself. (subscription only) |
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MastermindA plenary activity which is loosely based on the game show 'Mastermind' (subscription only) |
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Teach me aboutLesson plenary. Students become the teacher! One student is tasked with preparing a five minute revision starter about this topic for the beginning of the following lesson. (subscription only) |
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