Suggestions for warm up activities - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T15:07:11Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/suggestions-for-warm-up-activities?commentId=649749%3AComment%3A906472&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noMaybe classical music could h…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-01-24:649749:Comment:9064722013-01-24T21:56:42.376ZBrendan Caseyhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/BrendanCasey
<p>Maybe classical music could help? I always listen to Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 when struggling with writing a paper after a long day. A lot of classical music is very bombastic and powerful, but at the same time soothing.</p>
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<p>Maybe classical music could help? I always listen to Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 when struggling with writing a paper after a long day. A lot of classical music is very bombastic and powerful, but at the same time soothing.</p>
<p> </p> Hi Theresa,
Evening lessons I…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-01-21:649749:Comment:9055592013-01-21T18:07:00.552ZRoland Baggotthttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/RolandBaggott
<p>Hi Theresa,</p>
<p>Evening lessons I know can be hard having seen a couple of tough ones with studenst who clearly would have prefered to be elsewhere! One teacher I saw used a puzzle game which had lots of coloured pictures and images. Mainly missing parts, spot the difference, odd-one-out, questions did not require much written work. Some were humorous but all were quite easy so that students felt they were doing well. Not really set as a competition, all students wanted to know how they…</p>
<p>Hi Theresa,</p>
<p>Evening lessons I know can be hard having seen a couple of tough ones with studenst who clearly would have prefered to be elsewhere! One teacher I saw used a puzzle game which had lots of coloured pictures and images. Mainly missing parts, spot the difference, odd-one-out, questions did not require much written work. Some were humorous but all were quite easy so that students felt they were doing well. Not really set as a competition, all students wanted to know how they had done compared to the rest of the group.</p>
<p>It seemed to get the class much better engaged than the previous week when they were tight for time and working to finish an assigment they were clearly time pressured on with no chance for a fun type warm up.</p> Hi Teresa,
You're welcome it'…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-01-19:649749:Comment:9050442013-01-19T14:36:10.013ZTracy brookeshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Tracybrookes35
Hi Teresa,<br />
You're welcome it's good to share ideas and I have used many of others suggestion, such as a millionaire quiz, it worked a treat, I also have used a quick fire re-cap quiz with the cards looking like a deck of playing cards and the learners couldn't leave until they answered one (of course there is no pressure as they could ask two other learners before answering), which was great for re capping and takes the pressure off.<br />
T x
Hi Teresa,<br />
You're welcome it's good to share ideas and I have used many of others suggestion, such as a millionaire quiz, it worked a treat, I also have used a quick fire re-cap quiz with the cards looking like a deck of playing cards and the learners couldn't leave until they answered one (of course there is no pressure as they could ask two other learners before answering), which was great for re capping and takes the pressure off.<br />
T x Wow, this is a new site for m…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-01-08:649749:Comment:9014912013-01-08T21:38:46.776ZTheresa Younghttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/TheresaYoung
<p>Wow, this is a new site for me!</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestion.:))</p>
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<p>Theresa</p>
<p>Wow, this is a new site for me!</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestion.:))</p>
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<p>Theresa</p> Hi Theresa,
It's tricky tryi…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-01-08:649749:Comment:9014882013-01-08T21:23:56.884ZLucy D Robertshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/LucyDRoberts80
Hi Theresa,<br />
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It's tricky trying to engage students when their lesson is at night after a long day - I'm sure your energy helps to wake them up too, but this might help:<br />
I had a brilliant English teacher who used to do Countdown as a warm up task - he would pick letters at random from a set he had (maybe you could find a random letter generator on your iPad?!) and give us 5 mins to make as many words as we could, and also the longest words we could find. He also did magic number squares, like…
Hi Theresa,<br />
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It's tricky trying to engage students when their lesson is at night after a long day - I'm sure your energy helps to wake them up too, but this might help:<br />
I had a brilliant English teacher who used to do Countdown as a warm up task - he would pick letters at random from a set he had (maybe you could find a random letter generator on your iPad?!) and give us 5 mins to make as many words as we could, and also the longest words we could find. He also did magic number squares, like sudoku I suppose, where the 9 square boxes had to add up to 9 when you added the numbers of 3 boxes together. He would put a couple of numbers in and leave it up to us to do the rest. You had to use as many different numbers as possible. Hi Tracy,
I think that's the…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-01-08:649749:Comment:9014832013-01-08T21:02:31.288ZTheresa Younghttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/TheresaYoung
Hi Tracy,<br />
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I think that's the key with early/late classes - getting the brains ready for action! Keeping the classes current with items in the news too is good as it makes the class seem more relevant. I like the idea of following celebs - we could talk about the number of followers, number of tweets etc. Great idea!<br />
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Theresa
Hi Tracy,<br />
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I think that's the key with early/late classes - getting the brains ready for action! Keeping the classes current with items in the news too is good as it makes the class seem more relevant. I like the idea of following celebs - we could talk about the number of followers, number of tweets etc. Great idea!<br />
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Theresa Have you considered using "ma…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-01-08:649749:Comment:9013182013-01-08T18:03:19.920ZPedagoNethttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/RHJC
<p>Have you considered using "math tricks"</p>
<p>These activities will captivate attention and create an active learning environment.</p>
<p>Check them out :</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pedagonet.com/maths/mathtricks.htm">http://www.pedagonet.com/maths/mathtricks.htm</a></p>
<p>Have you considered using "math tricks"</p>
<p>These activities will captivate attention and create an active learning environment.</p>
<p>Check them out :</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pedagonet.com/maths/mathtricks.htm">http://www.pedagonet.com/maths/mathtricks.htm</a></p> In my last lesson I did some…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-01-08:649749:Comment:9011552013-01-08T14:42:43.957ZTracy brookeshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Tracybrookes35
In my last lesson I did some brainstorming straight away and found that I had the whole groups attention was with me, it was a fantastic way to start the lesson it made it fun and interesting and at the same time activated their brains ready for learning, going to try this more often especially with my early morning and late eveing classes!!<br />
My group is with health and beauty and we were just randomly talking about H & B in the news with the celebs and related it to what they were doing,…
In my last lesson I did some brainstorming straight away and found that I had the whole groups attention was with me, it was a fantastic way to start the lesson it made it fun and interesting and at the same time activated their brains ready for learning, going to try this more often especially with my early morning and late eveing classes!!<br />
My group is with health and beauty and we were just randomly talking about H & B in the news with the celebs and related it to what they were doing, they were learning without learning. For maths could you do something similar celebs followers on twitter etc? Brilliant idea, Emma. :))
Th…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-01-05:649749:Comment:9006352013-01-05T19:18:35.449ZTheresa Younghttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/TheresaYoung
<p>Brilliant idea, Emma. :))</p>
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<p>Thanks </p>
<p>Brilliant idea, Emma. :))</p>
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<p>Thanks </p> Hi Theresa,
Might be an idea…tag:www.classroom20.com,2013-01-05:649749:Comment:9006282013-01-05T18:04:21.085ZEmma Breenhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/EmmaBreen
<p>Hi Theresa,</p>
<p>Might be an idea to ask the students what they would find useful?</p>
<p>Some might have some really good warm up activities up their sleeves that they already know work well for them. Getting them to create their own warm up activities might be a fun task also, getting their focus firmly on whats going on in the room and getting them to interact with one another whilst working on something beneficial for you AND them. This way it is entirely inclusive.</p>
<p>Hope this…</p>
<p>Hi Theresa,</p>
<p>Might be an idea to ask the students what they would find useful?</p>
<p>Some might have some really good warm up activities up their sleeves that they already know work well for them. Getting them to create their own warm up activities might be a fun task also, getting their focus firmly on whats going on in the room and getting them to interact with one another whilst working on something beneficial for you AND them. This way it is entirely inclusive.</p>
<p>Hope this helps :) Emma</p>