50 Great Activities For Any Classroom
A few years ago I wrote a book on activities to use in the classroom. I have run an INSET on this theme several times since being at Markham, and you can find the resources from this session here. The electronic version of the book is available here, and there is a hard copy in the CPD Library in Upper School.
None of the activities are revolutionary, but rather a collection of different activities that I use in the classroom, that might be useful to others. I wrote this book early in my career as a teacher, mainly as way for me to organise my own thoughts about different classroom activities. Although some of my ideas about education have changed with the recent educational research I have been doing, I still think there is a place for some of these activities in the classroom. They are also not intended to be an exhaustive list of activities to use in the classroom, and since writing the book I have used other activities that are not here (such as these thinking activities, or making use of retrieval practice)
The 50 activities are:
Mini Whiteboards
How Many Wrong
Random Name Questions
Video Explanations
Post-It Feedback
Writing Questions
Self-Assessment Sheets
Student Teachers
Points System
Dynamic Displays
Collect a Joke
Tarsia Puzzle
Collective Memory
Dominoes
Loop Cards
Order Cards
Carousel Activities
Thoughts and Crosses
Question Race
Treasure Hunt
Fill In The Blanks
Venn Diagrams
Always, Sometimes, Never
Multiple Choice
Odd One Out
Memory Game
What's The Question?
Jeopardy
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Blockbusters
Million Pound Drop
Tick or Trash
Quiz, Quiz, Trade
Marking Questions
Speed Dating
True/False
Taboo
20 Questions
Hangman
Bingo
Random Questions
Matching Game
Follow Me Cards
Entrance/Exit Cards
Spot The Errors
Research and Present
Mind Maps
Facebook
Poster Making
Social Media
If you have any activities you use that you want to share with everyone, then please leave a comment below, or consider writing a blog post about them!