Graffiti

Graffiti

Awesome activity that can be done with little prep work--but so beneficial to the students. Again, we are looking for higher level thinking--and this has the potential to offer this for the students.

The process for this activity is to write the task on large pieces of chart paper and post them around the room. Students move to the charts in small groups--since we are in groups from the five card draw activity--we will use those.

OR

The papers can be rotated from table to table where the groups are located.

OR

We are going to be high tech so that I don't have to re-type this later. We are going to have groups rotate through pages on a wiki.

We will have a time limit and each group needs to stay honest and stay on the page that they are assigned until it is time to rotate.

If you use the chart paper, you can leave up throughout the unit. For differentiated learning, you can have the students synthesize the comments or if you are using it as a review--you can thank me now--they could use the information to write the test questions. How cool is that--the students could write the test questions based on the review that they did in class. OR---you could have them synthesize the next day instead of a test--just thinkin'.

If you use a wiki or google docs, the students could respond to you electronically and you have a timestamp of when it was completed.

Thanks to Ms. Kelly for suggesting the use of this activity with I, Q from //__Instruction for all students__// by Paula Rutherford.