Examples of small group discussion activities:
Pair talk: To identify three key points from the previous lesson’s work on acids, alkalis and
indicators.
Each pair has two minutes to agree the three key points before feeding back.
Or each pair agrees on...
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Examples of small group discussion activities:
Pair talk: To identify three key points from the previous lesson’s work on acids, alkalis and
indicators.
Each pair has two minutes to agree the three key points before feeding back.
Or each pair agrees on three questions they want to ask about the topic they are currently
studying.
Pairs to fours: This can be used with traditional test style questions.
Pupils do the question
in pairs and then go to a larger group e.
g four or even six and agree on an A3 version which
they then share with the rest of the class.
Listening Triads: This could be made into a game, like pictionary, where the cards have a
picture (apparatus, a graph, labelleddiagram of a cell etc.
) based on the topic being studied.
The questioner then has to ask questions to find out what is on the card.
The recorder
redraws the picture and they can compare the pictures after 2 minutes.
Envoys: Following an investigation into the factors affecting the size of current in
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