Active Learning!

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Active Learning!
By Gemma Stephens, Helen Wilson and Jesh
Hammerton.
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Warm up...
Lift your right foot off the floor and move it in
clockwise motions
Now, lift your right arm and draw a number 6 in
the air at the same time
You cannot do two things at the same time in
which case you need to pay attention!!
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Relay...

• Each group to have a set of large cards.
• The cards must be stuck onto the wall in the
  correct order.
• Only one student to leave the group and stick
  the card up at any time.
• A different student must stick the card up each
  time.

Can be used for plenary, revision, HPA and SAM
bodily responses to stress, statistics , aims,
procedures, findings, conclusions and criticisms
and lots more!
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Dominoes Get your students evaluating...

• Just like the traditional dominoes where
  students must match them up but with blank spaces
• Every time a student reaches a blank space they
  are to stick a post it note on it and write an
  evaluative point
• You could specify general, methodological or
  ethical issues for evaluation or you could say it
  needs one of each etc

• Germans are not different

• Participants electrocuted confederate learners
  when questions where incorrectly answered

• 65 delivered 450v shocks

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Human Bingo...

• Each students is given a bingo card (all cards
  have the same 8 questions on)
• Students have to walk around the classroom and
  ask each other the questions on the bingo card
• If another student can correctly answer the
  question their name is written under that
  question on the bingo card
• Repeat the process until 8 different names are
  written under the 8 different questions
• The first student to complete the card shouts
  bingo and brings their card to the teacher.
• Teacher to check each of the 8 different people
  on the bingo card can answer the questions
  correctly

To get your students moving around the classroom,
questioning and assessing each others knowledge!
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Human Bingo Example.
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Reliability and validity via an intelligence
test...

• Measure around your head in cm (from the tops of
  your ears) and record your results.
• Do this 3 times you may need a friend to help
  you.
• 58cm or above very intelligent
• 57cm or below quite intelligent
• 51cm or below not very intelligent
• Is this intelligence reliable? (Yes because we
  are consistently getting the same results well
  you should be!)
• Is this intelligence test valid? (No because it
  doesnt tell us anything about our intelligence,
  even if you did score 58cm or above!)
• Students must apply their knowledge to a
  study... Draw a continuum on the board (for
  example Milgrams study... Label one end of the
  continuum low external validity and the other end
  high external validity). Students to write their
  name on a post it note and stick it to the
  continuum. You can then use students names to
  find out why they put it there.

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Speed dating...

• Each student is to have a new key term (or piece
  of info etc)
• They must become an expert in their key term
• Chairs can be arranged in two circles so all
  chairs are facing each other or they could be in
  two lines, again facing each other
• Each student facing each other swap key terms
  and ensure that each other understands it
• One side remain where they are, students on the
  other side move clockwise one seat and repeat the
  process of sharing their information
• When everybody has swapped information,
  knowledge can be tested in a variety of ways...
• - select a student and ask a question
• - write down everything you can remember and
  then ask questions
• - students could peer assess each other and give
  extra info that must be included

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Pass the parcel...

• Again this can be adapted in various ways. For
  our workshop...
• Parcel is passed around to music
• When music stops, students opens parcel
• In one layer there will be 2 questions and 2
  sweets
• Pass each question onto each student on either
  side
• student to read out question and give answer
• If they get the question correct they win the
  sweet, if the answer is wrong the sweet is given
  back to the student who opened the parcel
• The correct answer could be gained in various
  different ways to ensure students understand!!

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The tree of knowledge...

• Plenary ideas!
• Each student has to write one thing they have
  learnt on a leaf and stick it on the tree
• Traffic light tree red, orange and green
  leaves to test which areas students understand
  and which areas they may be struggling with and
  need to recap
• End of topic tree students work in groups and
  have 2 minutes to write down as many facts as
  they can remember from the topic on their leaves
  and stick them on the tree
• Key study tree Different branches of the tree
  can be used for aims, procedures, findings,
  conclusions and evaluation

The tree of knowledge can be adapted in many
different ways!