At the end of this activity, students should be better able to (select as many as apply):
take risks
Divide class into groups of 5 or 6.
Distribute worksheet/task with the set of questions to be answered/solved. (This works best for questions with discrete answers.)
Give the groups about 5 minutes to go through the questions but they should not write anything down. They should make sure that everyone in the group knows the answers/solutions to all the questions.
In the meantime, write down the question numbers on the board.
Once their discussion time is over, tell the groups they have to write down the answers on the board in the following manner.
At this point onwards, nobody is allowed to talk to anyone.
Anyone who wants to answer a question has to stand up. Pick the first person to stand up and they get to answer any question on the board.
Only once they have sat down, can someone else stand up, if they are not ‘locked’.
Once again, pick the first person who stands up. They can either answer a question left unanswered on the board, or if they think an answer someone else has been written down is wrong, they can write an alternative answer next to that.
Students are ‘locked’ if they have already answered a question and there are members of their group who have not. They can only be ‘unlocked’ once all their groupmates have also answered a question on the board.
Students are also ‘locked’ if the last person at the board was from their group.
Once all the questions are answered, go through the answers and award 10 points for all correct answers and deduct 5 points for all wrong answers.
If someone provided an alternate answer that is correct, award 20 points for the correct answer. However, if their alternate answer is wrong, deduct 10 points
20 MINUTES
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Choosing which question to answer can be tricky. Do they go for the easy one? Do they correct answers they think are wrong which could offer more points? These choices will encourage the students to make informed choices and take risks.
Divide class into groups of 5 or 6.
Distribute worksheet/task with the set of questions to be answered/solved. (This works best for questions with discrete answers.)
Give the groups about 5 minutes to go through the questions but they should not write anything down. They should make sure that everyone in the group knows the answers/solutions to all the questions.
In the meantime, write down the question numbers on the board.
Once their discussion time is over, tell the groups they have to write down the answers on the board in the following manner.
At this point onwards, nobody is allowed to talk to anyone.
Anyone who wants to answer a question has to stand up. Pick the first person to stand up and they get to answer any question on the board.
Only once they have sat down, can someone else stand up, if they are not ‘locked’.
Once again, pick the first person who stands up. They can either answer a question left unanswered on the board, or if they think an answer someone else has been written down is wrong, they can write an alternative answer next to that.
Students are ‘locked’ if they have already answered a question and there are members of their group who have not. They can only be ‘unlocked’ once all their groupmates have also answered a question on the board.
Students are also ‘locked’ if the last person at the board was from their group.
Once all the questions are answered, go through the answers and award 10 points for all correct answers and deduct 5 points for all wrong answers.
If someone provided an alternate answer that is correct, award 20 points for the correct answer. However, if their alternate answer is wrong, deduct 10 points
None
Choosing which question to answer can be tricky. Do they go for the easy one? Do they correct answers they think are wrong which could offer more points? These choices will encourage the students to make informed choices and take risks.
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