Starter Activities
Starter activities are a useful way of assessing how much your students have learned and remember from previous lessons. They are also helpful for understanding how much general knowledge students have about a subject if it is new before you begin teaching. The final reason starter activities are so popular, is because they keep tabs on students progress throughout a topic, particularly if that topic is being taught by more than one teacher.
These types of activity are highly adaptable to the topics within each subject which is why they have their own page. They can be used for physical and human Geography and could easily be adopted by other subjects as well.
Examples of successful starter activities that I have come across in KS3 are:
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These types of activity are highly adaptable to the topics within each subject which is why they have their own page. They can be used for physical and human Geography and could easily be adopted by other subjects as well.
Examples of successful starter activities that I have come across in KS3 are:
- Playing bingo with a pre-selection of key terminology. Students are given the definitions as clues and have to work out which Geographical word to cross off.
- Fill in the blanks on a worksheet. These can be done with or without the missing words for different ability groups.
- A quiz.
- Using whiteboards to answer true or false questions as a class.
- Asking each student to write down five things that they learnt last lesson and then discuss these.
- Number some images on a Power-point and have students roll a dice to determine which ones get described / discussed.
- Play a form of Pictionary on the board and split the class into teams, the first team to answer so many correctly wins.
- Play 'what am I?' which is a game where a student has their back to the board with an image e.g. a volcano and they can ask five yes or no questions to work out what they are.
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