100 Ideas: Fact sheets
Fact sheets This is idea No. 75 in the book! Book extract: Learners are challenged to demonstrate their existing knowledge and build new knowledge in order to create a fact […]
100 Ideas: Nuggets with a source
Give students time to interview (speed-date style) their classmates to collect ten nuggets of knowledge on a topic on their worksheet. See the online resources for a template. You might find it useful to rearrange the layout of your classroom to facilitate this activity.
100 Ideas: A to Z
A to Z of your subject This is idea No. 65 in the book! Book extract: Start the lesson by giving each student an A to Z sheet that has […]
100 Ideas: Self-marking frame
Self-marking frame This is idea No. 58 in the book! Book extract: Challenge your learners to self-mark usingan A3 sheet of paper. Around the edge of the sheet you attach […]
100 Ideas: Snakes, ladders and challenge cards
Challenge your learners to create their own board game at the end of a unit of study or a term. The game can be loosely based on snakes and ladders (i.e. they move spaces based on a throw of a dice).
100 Ideas: Throw the dice
Throw the dice This is idea No. 47 in the book! Book extract: Challenge your learners to make a dice and accompanying game. Once completed the learners get to play […]
100 Ideas: Dingbats
Challenge learners in pairs or small groups to solve the dingbats you display on your board.
100 Ideas: Guess who?
Set up a Guess Who? board. Students work in pairs and pose a series of questions to knock down cards they can identify.
100 Ideas: Memorise this
Memorise this… This is idea No. 13 in the book! Book extract: You need a minimum of a three-slide presentation for this. Slide one shows the things you want […]
100 Ideas: Snowball questioning
One way to develop stronger answers is to employ the snowball questioning technique.
100 Ideas: Tutor time news quiz
News Quiz This is idea No. 17 in the book! Book extract: Tutor time sometimes feels unstructured. Once you’ve done the register and sorted some of the uniform issues, you […]
100 Ideas: Build a strong case
Build a strong case… This is idea No. 35 in the book! Book extract: You know those colour swatches you can pick up in DIY stores? Well, here’s another use […]
100 Ideas: Match of the day
This activity is about challenging learners to vocalise their understanding of topics, concepts and subject vocabulary.
100 Ideas: Litmus marking
For this you can use a visual colour scale (you might think of a litmus test colour chart or those colour swatches you see in DIY stores). Learners will then follow criteria you give them and select a colour level as their feedback to either themselves if self-marking or a peer if peer-marking.
100 ideas: Brain Bingo
If you know bingo you’ll get this straight away. You create a bingo card that has the answers to a series of questions on it.
100 Ideas: Hexagon challenges
A fun, engaging way of providing different challenges to each learner in a class. This works really well with Key Stage 3 classes. I’ve seen this idea adapted in many ways by wonderfully creative teachers!
