Spend-a-Buck

To make a team decision, teammates use play moneyand “spend a buck” to vote on their top picks. The option wiht the most bucks is deemed the team decision.

Showdown

Teams have a set of question cards stacked facedown in the center of the table. The teacher selects one student on the team to be Showdown Captain
for the first round.

RoundTable

In teams, students take turns generating written responses, solving problems, or making a contribution to a project. Variations include Single Roundtable, Continuous Roundtable, Pass-N-Praise, Roundtable Consensus, and Simultaneous Roundtable.

One Stray

One teammate strays from his or her team to a new team to share or gather information.

Mix-Freeze-Group

Students rapidly “mix” around the room, “freeze” in their tracks, and frantically “group” to avoid falling into the Lost and Found.

Find-the-Fiction

Students write three statements and read them to teammates. Teammates try to find which of the three statements is fiction.

Fan-N-Pick

Teammates play a card game to respond to questions. Roles rotate with each new question.

RoundRobin

In teams, students take turns sharing responses. Variations include Single RoundRobin, Continuous RoundRobin, Timed RoundRobin, Think-Write-RoundRobin, AllRecord RoundRobin, and AllRecord Consensus.

Vocab Post-It Stations

Vocab Post-It Stations Stations are a great way for you to get your kids up and moving around. Try posting words around the room on the walls, then having students move from place to play and put up sentences using the words on post-its. As they circulate, they’ll get to see lots of others’ sentences […]