‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’ - Variety of Activities



‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’ - Variety of Activities:

‘And so’ statements

1 - 2 - 4 paired discussion

3 minute design task

30 seconds to say without hesitation

3D sculpture

5 experts, 5 groups - teach groups and solve problem

A day in the life of

Accurate marking out

Acting

Actions

Adding up

Adult led

AFL - thumbs traffic light

AFL ball game

Air-balloon debate

All put response on a post it

Alphabet singing

Anagrams

Analyse/interpret

Analysing pictures

Analysing text

Animal sounds

Animation

Annotating

Answering questions

Antiques Roadshow

Apply a new skill to a scenario

Argue

Around the world

Art work

Artistic expression of ideas

Ask the audience

Ask the expert

Assess other’s work

Assessing

Assumed identity

Audio

Audio tapes

Back to back draws

Back to the board

Baking (e.g. to work out ratios)

Ball games, e.g. as starter

Balloon debate

BBC Newsround

Beads

Beat the teacher

Being in role

Big question

Big write

Bingo type games

Blockbusters

Blockbusters on IWB

Blogging

Board games

Board room style presentation

Book review

Book work

Booklet

Books

Boxing up

Brain gym

Brainstorm

Breaking rules

Building database

Calculations

Call and response

Cameras

Campaigns

Card games

Card matching

Card sorts

Carousel

Carousel of Creation

Cartoon strips

Cartooning

Case study

Cat and mouse

Catching/throwing

Categorising

Ceramics

Chain questions - one leads to the next

Chain races

Chair building (DT)

Chalk and talk

Challenge!

Chanting

Characters

Charades

Child as expert

Child initiated

Children making powerpoints

Chinese whispers

Choosing time

Circle time

Class assemblies

Class brainstorm

Class enquiry (P4C)

Class feedback on post its

Class reading

Class still image photo

Class survey

Clay

Clip observation

Close eyes - listen to sound effects

Cloze procedure

Coach

Coaching - children as coach

Collage

Collect and stick

Collecting

Collective voice

Colour coding

Colouring

Colouring by numbers

Colouring in

Communicating

Compare bears

Comparing

Competition

Composition of songs

Comprehension - auditory and reading

Computing

Conscience alley

Construction

Contrast

Controlled assessment

Converting pictures into words

Cookery

Cool experiments

Co-operative rally

Copy an artwork

Copy with left hand

Copying from board

Count down

Countdown games

Counting

Craft making

Crawling

Create a play

Create own learning objectives

Creating a word document

Creating board games

Creative writing, e.g. diary

Criss-cross

Critical friend

Criticise/criticism

Critics

Cross curricular activities/learning

Crosswords

Cryptogram

Cut and glue - ordering

Cut and stick

Cut and stick matching

Cutting and sequencing

Cutting out

Cutting paper, designing ideas

Dancing and performance

Darts

Debate

Decision alley/line

Decision making exercise

Define

Define key words

Demonstration and analysis

Demonstration and do

Demonstrations

Describe

Describe a photograph - anything you can think of

Describing pictures

Descriptive talk partners

Descriptive writing

Desert Island Discs

Design

Design a board game

Designing and making objects linked to topic

Designing products

Desk graffiti

Develop strategy/tactics

Devising a song

Diagrams

Dialogue

Dialogue alley

Diary entry

Dice

Dictating

Didactic teaching

Different operations

Different voices

Digging

Directing a discussion

Discovery through play

Discuss in pairs

Discussion

Display work

Dissecting

Dissemination

Distillation

Distributing

Dividing

DJ-ing

Do a survey

Do it in an alternative style

Do some sums

Documentary

Doing a craft

Dominoes

Dominoes - match answers to question

Drama - physical

Drama - talking hats

Draw a graph

Draw a graph of how you think the lesson went or is going

Draw from memory

Draw what is described

Draw with a long brush and a stick

Draw without taking hand off page

Drawing and labelling

Drawing maps and planning journeys

Drilling

Driving test

Drumming

DVDs

Eating

Elections

Electronics

Emails

Empathy

Empower students

Enquiry

Envoys

Equations

Essay questions

Essay writing

Evaluation

Exam papers

Exam practice

Exam prep

Exam/test

Experience

Experiment

Experimenting

Explain

Explanations

Extended topic

Extended writing

Eye spy

Family fortunes

Feature race

Feeding back

Feeling

Feely bags

Fictional story

Field work

Fill in missing words

Fill in the blanks

Filling in sheets

Film an activity

Films

Find a quote

Find it grab it

Finding places on a map

Finish off each other’s sentences

Finishing off

First hand experience - playing

Flash animations

Flash cards

Flow chart

Follow me

Follow on from what last person said

Football

Forest school

Forest school cooking

Forum theatre

Freeze frame

Frequency tables

Fruit salad

Games

Games @ whiteboard

Gap filling

Gluing

Going around the school

Going on a hunt/journey

Grading questions

Grammar gym

Graphology

Graphs & charts

Group - 1 person stays

Group analysis of text

Group debate

Group discussion

Group drama

Group feedback

Group improvisation

Group performance

Group presentation

Group Q&As

Group quiz

Group reading

Group reading of a play

Group task

Group work

Group work on whiteboards

Group writing

Grow

Guess my … (post it note on head)

Guess the …

Guess the object

Guess the similes/metaphors in a box

Guess who

Guessing

Guided fantasy

Guided reading/writing

Hairdressing

Hammering

Handwriting

Hangman

Hat making

Headlines

Heads and tails

Here’s the answer, what’s the question

Highlighting

Hopping

Hot potatoes

Hot seating

How to fight a boss as Zelda

Human photocopies

Human scale

Hypothesis testing

ICT, computers

Ideas drops

Identify

Illustration

Imagination

Imagination box

Improvisation

Independent activity

Independent learning

Independent learning posters

Independent writing

Indian dribble around the cones

Individual ‘mini’ whiteboards

Individual routine

Individual work

Information carousel

Information hunt

Instruments

Interactive games

Interactive whiteboard

Internet research

Interview

Interview a character

Investigation - fact finding

Isolation exercises

IT competition

IWB games

Jigsaws

Jigsawing

Job share

Jot down your favourite subject

Judge

Jumping

Junk modelling

Just a minute

Key words

Knitting

Labelling diagrams

Large pieces of paper for students to write on

Laughing

Layout, plan, design, prototype

Leaflet

Learn a new skill

Learn key words

Learn to teach

Learning leaders

Learning partners

Learning review

Learning through songs/rhymes

Lego

Lesson planning for student

Letter to a friend

Letter writing

Letting the children choose what they want to learn

Linear order

Linguascope games

Linking

Listen

Listen and repeat

Listening activity

Listening and drawing picture

Listening to a CD

Listening to music

Listing

Lolly stick or pen group debate

Lolly sticks

Looking

Loop cards

Loop game

Lotto game

Make a cartoon

Make a documentary

Make a game

Make a mask

Make a model

Make a video

Make notes

Make someone a manager

Make the link - linking words and phrases

Make-up

Making films

Making music

Making own resource

Making up rhymes to remember facts

Mantle of the expert

Map work

Mapping

Mapping from memory

Mark making

Market place

Mask making

Mastermind

Match in pairs

Matching activity

Matching definitions & answers

Matching pairs on post its around the room

Maths trail

Measuring

Measuring objects

Memorising

Memory challenge

Memory games

Mental maths

Mentoring

Messy play

Millionaire

Miming

Mind maps

Mini whiteboards

Mini whiteboards for maths

Mirroring

Mixed ability

Mnemonics

Model answers

Modelling

Modelling exam answers

Modelling physically with pupils

Models

Modifying

Monkey talk

Monologue

Mood board

Moulding

Movement

Movie Maker

Movie making

Multiple choice (who wants to be a millionaire)

Multiple choice cards Q&A

Multiplying

Murder to solve

Music

Music - write a song

Musical chairs

Musical response

Mystery

Negotiating

News bug

News report

Newspaper article

Note taking

Noughts and crosses

Number shark

Objects

Observational drawing

Observe partner

Observing

Obstacle course

Officiate

Online blog

Ordering

Origami

Outdoor activities

Outside classroom

Outside environment, e.g. tessellation in the outside

Outside speakers

P4C (Philosophy for Children)

Paint using one colour and white

Painting

Pair work

Paired reading

Paired sequence

Paired speaking

Paired talk

Paired teaching

Pairs - think, share

Pairs cards

Papier mache

Parachute

Pass talking stick

Pass the ball

Pass the book

Pass the parcel

Past papers

Pastels

Pay me back

PE

Peer assessment

Peer assessment after a class performance

Peer marking

Peer mentoring

Peer teaching

Peer tutor

Perfecting

Performance

Persuasive writing

Philosophy for children (P4C)

Phone a friend

Phonics

Phonics full circle

Photographs

Photography

Physical activities

Physical assessment

Pick a person, pass it on

Pictionary

Pictionary race

Picture editing

Ping pong type games

Pint with

Plan

Planning

Planting seeds

Plasticine

Plasticine explanations

Play-doh

Playing an instrument

Playing with sand

Podcast

Poem writing

Poetry

Pond dipping

Post it ideas

Posters

Pottery

Powerpoint presentation

PQE charts

Practical investigation

Practicals

Practise exam questions

Practising problems

Preparing

Presentations

Presenting answers to questions as poster/info

Printing

Problem solving

Problem solving scenarios

Problem solving through fantasy (e.g. as knights)

Projects

Props set up

Punctuation exercises

Pupil demonstrations

Pupil explanation

Pupil participation

Pupil teachers

Pupil teaches a tense at the board

Pupils explain methods

Pupils generate objectives/outcomes

Pupils work on board

Puppets

Puzzles

Q&A

Question of maths/geography, etc.

Question wall

Questioning

Questionnaires - collecting data

Questions - pass the ball

Quilting

Quiz

Quiz busters

Quizdom

Races

Radio broadcast

Radio show

Rally

Rally robin

Randomly generated learning buddies

Range of different materials

Range of objects

Ranking

Rapping

Ratio (using cubes)

Reading

Reading aloud

Reading an image (painting/photo)

Reading for meaning

Reading race

Reciprocal teaching

Reciting

Recording scenes

Recording work - visual/audio

Reflecting

Reflection

Relate theory to real life (e.g. go to Tesco on trip and actually buy with money)

Relaxing, e.g. yoga

Relays

Remembering

Repeating - range of voices

Report

Research

Research - computers

Research projects

Review/evaluate

Revising

Revision posters

Ring words

Role play

Role play - dressing up, miming, re-enacting

Rope of opinion

Rotate groups

Round robin

Run a race

Running dictation

Sand/water trays

Sanding

Sawing

Science experiments

Scientific models

Scrabble

Scripting stories

Sculpture

Select: leader, coach, umpire

Self assessment

Self assessment - record

Self evaluation

Send children to collect data

Sensory analysis

Sentence building

Sequencing

Set out

Set targets

Sewing

Shadowing

Share ideas

Shared reading

Shared writing

Shop - adding/subtracting

Shouting

Show and tell

Show of hands

Silent maths

Silent reading

Silent think

Similes

Simon Says

Simulated activities

Singing

Singing times table songs

Singing to teach concepts

Sitting quietly, working

Sketching

Skill development

Skills showcase

Skinny Q Fact Q

Skipping

Sleeping

Small group work

Small world play

Smart board activities and games

Smelling

Smile

Snap

Snowballing

Social thinking

Soldering

Solve quadratic equations

Sometimes always never

Song!

Sorting

Sorting activity - poetic devices

Speaking

Speed dating

Speed typing

Spelling

Spelling strategies

Spider grams

Spider graph

Spider map

Spinners

SPLAT

Splat the board

Sports

Spot the difference

Spreadsheet

Stand and share

Standing in line (to show levels of agreement)

Star of the week

Statements that they have to choose

Statues

Stealing numbers

Sticking

Still image

Stimulus (object)

Stories

Story board

Story boxes

Story mapping - book talk

Story telling

Stream of consciousness

Student as teacher: 2 - 5 minutes

Student interviews

Student led

Student presentations

Students plan own session

Students prepare a topic/question to show class

Students teaching lessons

Students writing questions for each other

Summarising

Summary sentence

Survey

Swimming

Symmetrical patterns

Synthesising

TA as ‘teacher’

Table aerobics

Tableau

Taboo

Take 10

Take on a new role - organiser/coach

Take photos

Taking on a role

Talk to class

Talking partners

Tally charts

Tasting

Teach another pupil a skill quickly

Teach the lesson

Teach the teacher

Teach your group

Teacher assessment

Teacher in role

Teacher led

Teaching partners

Team games

Team teaching

Team work

Tell me what you don’t know

Telling latest jokes

Tennis

Test

Testing

Text book

Text conversion

Text messaging

Text someone what you’ve learned

Theorising

Think, pair, share

Thinking

Thinking circle

Thinking hat games

Thinking hats

Thinking time

This is the answer, what is the question?

Thought bubble

Thought out loud

Thought showers

Thought track

Threading

Throw

Throw the ball

Throwing paper planes to share ideas

Throwing the ball to student to answer questions

Thumbs up

Tick list

Tidy up time to song

Tidying

Timed competitions

Timed task

Times table challenge

Top trumps

Topic sentences

Touching/feeling

Trade an idea

Traffic lights

Translating

Travelling

Tray game

Treasure hunt - clues

Trick question

Triominoes - key/stem word in middle, facts around it in triangle

Trips

True and false

Turn a table into a graph

Turn subject content into a poem/song

TV advert

TV interviews

TV report

TV video

TV/DVDs

Twenty questions

Two stars and a wish

Typing practice

Under/over

Use games’ principles across a variety of games

Use of equipment

Using compasses

Using environment

Using photos as stimulus

Using post its

Variation on ‘guess who’ with numbers

Verb recital

Verbal football

Video

Video analysis

Video production

Videos - You tube

Visitors

Visual aids

Visual resources

Visual word link

Vocabulary matching

Voiceover on a silent video clip

Voting buttons

Wake and shake - kick start

Walk around to ‘evaluate’ pieces of work

Walks - what shapes can they see?

Wanted posters

Warm up/cool down

Watch a clip

Watch a video

Water play

Watercolour painting

Weaving

Weighing

Welding

What to do sheet

What’s wrong?

Whispering

Whistling

Whiteboard

Who am I?

Who wants to be a millionaire?

Who’s Who?

Whole class discussion

Whole class in role

Whole class reading

Whole part whole

Whoosh

Wii

Wikis

Wink murder

Woodwork

Word association game

Word chains

Word search

Word shark

Worksheets

Write a letter

Write a play

Write a script

Write a song

Write a story about …

Write a test

Write an acrostic

Write an essay

Write and run

Write learning objectives

Write questions for others

Writing a story in pairs

Writing frames

Writing ideas on a post it

Writing questions

Written essay

Yoga

You say we pay

You Tube

Zoo keeping

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