I've never used anything but flash cards, which have worked well for me. The students enjoy the bantering and the challenge of knowing the correct answers.
You are welcome and I hope you find them helpful for your students.
The activities is the best way to reinforce all the lecturing and the students look strange when it gets announced. They are a little reluctant at first, but once started they become competitive and want to help each other. This leads to team members discovering what they do know and what they still need to work on. I am always grateful for learning activities. Thank you for the ideas.
I think it is important to take your learners likes and dislikes into your activity selection. The National Enquirer headline is something that most people, both males and females have seen in the grocery, so why not use it for learning? Great idea!
Larry, I am glad to see you have gotten positive results with active learning, also.
students enjoy the fun-filled activities. These activities promote learning and retention rates among many of my students
Michelle,
I agree that it is very important to encourage our students to be "active respondents" rather than "passive recipients."
My students' retention of the class material is greatly increased when I utilize active learning techniques as desribed in ED 310.
Ms. Deck,
These game suggestions are great and weighting them for doubles, home runs and touchdowns will certainly get a group movin' and groovin'.
We may need to rethink strategies other than sports for all female class mates.
How about diseases and terminal illnesses on the SOAPS.
or Write a National Enquirer Head-liner for this medical term.
I'm really not a "sports enthusiast, and I might opt out to go to the the concession stand for a DOG.
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Hi, I will try the Question and Answer Relay Race on Monday in my class.I will use this activity as a method to recall previous learned subject matter.
I agree with you in that kinesthetics is an important way for many students to learn information. I try to incorporate all of the VARK methods in my lectures.
Linda, the physical movement keeps kinesthetic students engaged and interested.
when we toss around the nerf ball it keeps the students focused on the game1
Thank you for sharing what you do to teach. Secret identity is an involving strategy and you will see positive results from it.
Kimberly, if you make your learning environment friendly, involving and collaborative, the reluctant learners(the ones who think they don't like activities that look like games) get on board and surprise themselves.
Debbie, shifting your teaching methods to visual ones will appeal to more than half of the general population of learners. Having your students draw their own pictures and share them creates ownership and buy in, which is an internal motivator.
I agree, students enjoy when reinforcement is fun and competitive.
I love it when I can get the students up out of their chairs and responding to course material. I've done various hands on projects from putting together skeletons to building word parts. I will definitely add the secret identity (esp. at the start of a new term) so students not only reinforce material but also meet other students. I've done other 3 x 5 games and this one sounds really good and I will try this also.
For the most part, my students enjoy and often request certain activities that we've used in class. I'm always looking for new activities to try in the classroom, because each student has their own unique strengths. A favorite activity for one adult learner may not necessarily be equally as enjoyable to another student.
There are some students who intially express that they don't like learning activities or games; however, most of these students eventually seem to benefit from the activities and some actually seem to start enjoying them.
I discuss word associations and making mental images regularly in Med Term. I plan to use the Flip Chart Learning Race this quarter as a review. I think the humor that will be generated from the activity will not only add to the fun, but also it will increase the students' ability to recall information.
I get very good response when I use other resources like the audio/visual equipment. Having students build 3D models or use free hand drawing. Sometimes I have students do their own drawing on the boards as to allow each one to show what they are seeing.
