Spreadsheets: tasks

Starters / Plenaries

Give me 10

Students work in pairs to come up with ten words related to this project before joining up with another pair to expand their list.

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Consider all reasons

Students are given an open ended statement related to the topic.  In pairs, they identify as many reasons as possible in order to provide an answer to the statement

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30 Seconds

Students are shown a number of terms for exactly 30 seconds. They need to memorise as many as possible. After 30 seconds, the terms are hidden and they need to write down as many terms as they can remember along with at least one fact about that term.

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10 Questions

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'

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3-2-1

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.

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Odd one out

Students are shown a number of key terms.   They have to decide which of the terms is the ‘odd one out’ and give a reason for their choice

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Teach me about ...

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.

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Teacher talkabout

The class 'test' the teacher on their knowledge of key words related to this topic

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Word Tennis

Students work in groups of three with two 'serving' words related to the topic. The observer monitors for words which are 'out'

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Summarise

Students are asked to summarise what they have learned during today’s lesson and think about a question they would still like to be answered

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Hop around cards

Excellent starter activity to involve all students

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Lesson tasks and homework

Theory Notes Task

Students read the theory notes on the mini website and then answer the questions on the task sheet.

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Correct the teacher

Students are given a piece of text written by a ‘teacher’. The text contains a number of mistakes. They are asked to read the text and correct any mistakes they find.

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Differentiated crossword

Students are given a crossword to solve with clues relating to key words for this topic.

There are two differentiated versions to allow students to choose the best level of difficulty for themselves.

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Create your own crossword

Students are given step by step instructions about creating their own crossword which they can then give to fellow students to solve

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Scrabble

Students are given a blank scrabble type sheet and take it in turns to write down key words related to this topic

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Reduce it

Students are given a section of theory. They pick out the 20 most important words. They are then asked to reduce these to the 8 they consider to be the most important.

A great task for really getting them to concentrate and think about the text in front of them.

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Once upon a time

Students are given a set of words related to this topic and asked to make up a story incorporating as many of the terms as possible.

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Matching pairs

Students work in pairs to turn over two cards and matchup a keyword with an example.

Full instructions are given in the task sheet. Requires preparation prior to the lesson

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