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The following are some suggested lesson activities. Some have been highlighted for their value in terms of teaching ICT, Literacy, Equal Opportunities, but the list is by no means exhaustive in terms of its content or adaptation of activities.

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A

 

Action cards-Instructions on what to do.

 

Action plan-Document what needs to be done.

 

Acrostic poem – Using a word as the opening letter of a phrase or sentence.

Literacy

Advert/ Advertising

 

Agony aunt – Writing to or responding as.

Literacy

Alien visits (Alienation) – As an alien describing or explaining something.

 

Anecdotes

 

Animated activities – Actually doing the activities.

Equal Opportunities

Articles/journals – Using or writing.

Literacy

Artefacts

Equal opportunities

Art work

 

Assessments

 

Auction – Identifying priorities and bidding for them.

 

Award Ceremony – To identify nominations.

 
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B

 

Balloon debate/boat debate – Justifying your position.

Literacy

Balloon questioning – Blowing air into a balloon when asked a certain style of question.

 

Banner

ICT

Before and after – Visual or written.

 

Bible reading/ investigation/ games

Literacy

Bookmark

ICT

Brainstorm

Equal Opportunities

Brochure

ICT

Business sense – Setting up a company to look at a particular issue.

 

Bullet points

Equal opportunities

Button discussion – Allocation of buttons to identify amount of point able to put forward.

Literacy

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C

 

Caricature – To draw out certain features.

 

Cartoons

 

Case Studies – Applying knowledge to an actual case.

 

Categorising – Grouping ideas.

 

Chalk and talk

 

Chat shows – Prepared and presented.

 

Chinese whispers

 

Chronology – Ordering.

 

Class discussion

Literacy

Close procedure – Completing a passage.

Literacy

Coffee game – Illustrating the idea of trading and fair-trade (Christian Aid).

 

Collaborate writing – Producing a piece in collaboration with others.

Literacy

Collage

 

Colour coding – Categorising using colour.

 

Commentary – Bring out the important points.

Literacy

Competition

Equal opportunities

Concept maps – Tracing related issues.

Equal Opportunities

Correcting the passage – Finding mistakes in a given piece and correcting them.

Literacy

Council of all beings – Allowing none human forms to gain the gift of speech and have their say.

 

Crossword

Literacy

Curriculum Vitae – Designing for himself or herself or a given character.

ICT

Cutting and sticking – Pupils create a 3D shape and incorporate ideas and information.

Equal opportunities

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D

 

Dance – Movement to accentuate ideas.

Debating

Literacy

Demonstrations

 

Designing

 

Diamond Nine – Ranking ideas in the order and shape of a diamond.

 

Digital Camera

ICT, Equal opportunities

Discussion

Literacy

Drama

 

Drawing

 

DVD – designing additional scenes that might be found on a DVD.

 
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E

 

E-Mail – Contact experts on the net

ICT, Equal opportunities

Empathy exercises

 

Essays

Literacy

Evaluation questions

Literacy

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F

 

Fact file

ICT

Family tree

 

Festival food tasting

 

Fifteen to one – In the style of the game show.

Equal Opportunities

Fifty questions

 

Fill in the gaps

Literacy

Flow diagram – To identify progression.

 

Flyer

ICT

Footnotes – Identifying points to comment on.

Literacy

For/against – Identifying arguments on each side.

 

Formal debate

 

Freezing – Freezing during an activity to emphasise and discuss points.

 

Fundraising

 
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G

 

Games – Board games, card games any kind of games!

Equal opportunities

Game of Life – Game where pupils make the key life choices of a person.

Equal Opportunities

Gathering pupil ideas – Feedback or plenary.

 

Glossaries

Literacy

Go for five – Breaking work tasks and lessons into five parts.

Equal opportunities

Group work

 

Guess the person – Give clues to an identity.

 

Guest speakers

 

Guided meditation

 

Guidelines for… - Giving instructions on how to do certain things.

 
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H

 

Headlines – from newspapers as stimulus, or designing them to fit a story.

ICT

Highlighting – Identifying key ideas in a passage.

 

Holiday brochure – Written work in this style to advertise a place.

ICT

Hot Potatoes – Using the programme to design questions or answer ones already done.

ICT, Equal opportunities

Hot seat – Directing questions to a character or person identified.

 
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I

 

Ice breakers – Getting to know you activities, various.

 

Iconography – Exploring or designing.

 

Illustrations

 

Imaginary complaint from God – About a given issue.

Literacy

Improvisation – Making up a response.

 

In other/ your own words – Translating into a more appropriate manner of speaking.

Literacy

In the line – Taking up a position in a line to illustrate where you stand.

 

In the style of… - Doing an activity in a particular style.

 

Independent activities

 

Insert for guidebook – To explain the importance of something.

Literacy

Internet search – Using prepared pages on our website.

ICT, Equal opportunities

Interviews – Interviewing a character for a particular point.

 

Investigation – Looking deeper into something.

 

Is your line important? – Splitting a passage into sentences and getting pupils to make a value judgement on their line. To get to the heart of the passage.

Literacy

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J

 

Jeopardy – Guessing the question

 

Jigsaw learning – ‘Expert’ groups search for information and return to ‘home’ group where all information is collated.

 

Job description – Identifying the roles or expectations of a person or character.

 

Journalist report

Literacy

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K

 

Key words

Literacy

Kite making – Making and flying with a message.

 
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L

 

Labelling – Providing an appropriate label for an item.

 

Led reflection

 

Letter - (Complaint/ praise)

Literacy

Life as a journey – Illustrated life maps identifying key stages in life.

 

Line by line story telling – Each person provides a sentence to the story to build on what has been previously said.

Literacy

Literacy games – Games around definitions.

Literacy

Liturgy

 

Liturgy preparation

 
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M

 

Magazine articles – Writing or using.

Literacy, ICT

Maps – Using or drawing.

 

Market trading game – To identify the effects of trading (Christian Aid).

 

Marking – Marking their own work or each other’s.

 

Masks – Designing, making or using.

 

Mass booklet

ICT

Matching up – Pictures with words, ideas with meanings or definitions.

Literacy

Meditation

 

Men are from mars, women from Venus. – In the style of the board game.

Equal Opportunities

MFI Instructions – A set of instructions to explain how something is done.

ICT, Equal opportunities

Mime

 

Mind journey – Guiding the mind to imagine something and reflect upon it.

 

Mind Maps – Introducing a concept and tracing through the ideas that go with it.

 

Moving outside – Looking for evidence in nature.

 

Multiple choice

 

Music

 
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N

 

Newsletter

Literacy, ICT

Newspaper articles

Literacy, ICT

Nine lives – Having nine chances to do something.

 

Nominations- Putting people/characters forward for something.

 

Notes

Literacy

Notice board

 
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O

 

OHP

Equal Opportunities

Old documents – Using the effect of in the presentation of work.

Literacy

Open/ close questioning

 

Open surgery – Allowing pupils to identify what they want to look at.

 

Oral testing

 

Order of service – Writing or using.

ICT

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P

 

Paired work

 

Pancake race – As a reminder of shrove Tuesday.

 

Paper around the room – Asking pupils to add information to different prompts as they move around the room.

Equal Opportunities

Paper bag game – To identify employment issues (Christian Aid).

Equal Opportunities

Paper plates – To make into a seder plate.

 

Parachute games – Using a parachute in playing games.

 

Parish council – To act in the role of to discuss issues.

 

Pass and shoot – To hand over response to another person.

Literacy

Personal experience

 

Philosophical teasers – Posing philosophical or ethical dilemmas.

 

Photographic evidence – To illustrate in the style of photographs.

 

Picture stimulus

Equal Opportunities

Plans (lesson/service) – Designing an outline on a particular theme.

 

Pledge – A promise to do something.

 

Poems

Literacy

Postage stamp – Designing on a particular theme.

 

Post card – Designing and writing home.

Literacy

Posters

 

Power point

ICT, equal opportunities.

Prayer

 

Pre-empting exercises – Identifying ideas before they happen.

 

Presentations – Students delivering information.

Equal opportunities

Prioritising – Putting things in priority order.

 

Probability games

 

Project

 

Project committee game – Submitting proposals to a committee and discussing where priority should be given.

Equal Opportunities

Promises – Said or written.

 

Prompt cards – Cards with key ideas.

 

Proximal learning – Spending equal time in single sex, mixed sex and friendship groups.

Equal opportunities

Pub style quiz

Equal Opportunities

Pupil experience

 
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Q

 

Questions

 

Question a character

 

Quizzes – All kinds!

Equal Opportunities

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R

 

Races – Competition element or time limit given.

Equal Opportunities

Radio – Using ideas from.

 

Radio interview

 

Read and shoot – To pass over reading to another person.

Literacy

Recipe – To write instructions in the style of ingredients and method.

 

Re-ordering exercise – Putting items in a more appropriate form.

 

Remembering games

 

Research (books/internet)

Literacy, ICT

Research grids – Using a template for research.

Literacy

Role play

 
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S

 

Scaffolding ideas – Building up ideas in the form of a structure.

 

Scripts – Writing or using.

Literacy

Seder meal – Acting out and tasting.

Equal Opportunities

Self-evaluation

 

Seminar style – Discussing an article or issue having prepared for it.

 

Setting exam questions – Writing their own exam questions.

 

Sequencing – Putting things in an appropriate order.

 

Sketching/ sketches

 

Skimming/ scanning text

Literacy

Slide shows

Equal Opportunities

Slips of paper – Pupils complete a sentence on paper, and then they are collected in and read out.

 

Snakes and ladders – Designing a game in the style of to illustrate a point.

 

Soap operas – Using as a stimulus or creating an episode.

 

Song lyrics – Either using them or writing them

Literacy

Speech

Literacy

Speech bubbles – Identifying reactions or responses.

 

Spellings

Literacy

Spider-gram

 

Stained glass – Designing or exploring.

 

Stamp test – Summarising in the space of a stamp.

Literacy

Standing in a line – Identifying a place to stand that best suits your view.

 

Stand up if… - identifying categories of people.

 

Station activity – Different activities placed around the room.

Equal Opportunities

Stereotyping games

 

Stilling activities – Breathing, focusing and stilling.

 

Stimulus – Using picture, film, music, story or any other means as an introduction.

Equal Opportunities

Storyboards

 

Students as scribes – Using students in plenary sessions to document key ideas.

 

Summaries

Literacy

Summary and add – Add to what has been said.

Literacy

Summary cards – Cards to identify key points.

Literacy

Surfing the net

ICT, Equal Opportunities

Survey – Using as stimulus or designing and carrying one out.

 
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T

 

Teacher explanation/ demonstration

 

Teaching younger children – What would you say?

 

Templates – In all sorts of shapes and sizes!

Equal Opportunities, Literacy

Testimony – How you got to your point of view.

 

Text books

Literacy

This is your life – What to include in the red book.

Literacy

Thought for the day – A lasting or final thought.

 

Top ten… - Putting things in this order.

 

Translation – Putting in another way.

Literacy

Trading trainer’s game – Outlining the issue of fair trade (Christian Aid).

Equal Opportunities

Treasure hunt – Following clues to the answer.

Equal Opportunities

True/false statements – Categorising statements as true or false.

 

TV Programme – Preparing for or what to include.

 

Two minute speech

Literacy

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U

 

Under cover report/ agents – Investigating issues.

 
   

V

 

Value continuum – Standing on an imaginary line, or marking an appropriate position on the board.

 

Video

 

Video covers – Designing an appropriate cover.

 

Virtual Tours – Website virtual tours of churches.

ICT, Equal Opportunities

Visits

 

Vote with your feet – Stand where you think

Equal Opportunities

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W

 

Weakest link – In the style of the quiz show.

Equal Opportunities

Web pages – Designing and building.

ICT, Equal Opportunities

Who wants to be a millionaire – In the style of the show.

Equal Opportunities

Why game – Pursuing answers to questions with why until a full answer is formed.

 

Word art – Putting written work into shapes or pictures.

 

Word pictures – Replacing key words in a passage with pictures.

 

Word search

 

Word stories – Creating a story by adding a word at a time.

 

Worksheet

 

Writing frames – Identifying a pattern/template.

Literacy

Writing model answers – Correcting draft material of upgrading exam answers.

Literacy

Written conversation – Each participant writes what he or she would have said. The paper is passed between the two then read out.

Literacy

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X

 
   

Y

 

Yes/ no questions – Quick fire questions, but avoiding the yes or no answers.

Equal Opportunities

Ying/yang guessing game – Guessing whether something has a ying or yang force.

 
   

Z

 
   
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