Marketplace
Posted by Damian Hayes on November 29th, 2006
Time to be noisy.
Starter: first years running around the class looking for hidden keywords from last lesson. When found they had to be grouped to make sense.
Marketplace: Groups of 3: they read and summarise a text. I give them a template to help them- they are forced to summarise as they are only allowed 6 keywords and as many pictures and symbols as they like.
One then stays to ’sell’ the information- the others go round and ‘buy’ the info from the other groups. Lots of ‘knowledge for sale’ type shouting.
The buyers then return to their group and all write down the information that they’ve gathered- I give them a buyer’s basket to help them with this. Helps teamwork and is more interesting, if noisy, way to hand out information.
The different coloured pens allow you to see which groups need more help!
January 24th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Hi Damian!
Hope you are well
Just a quick note to say hello and to let you know that I tried a marketplace activity at Moray House. I had to ‘facilitate’ a workshop on Standard Grade/NQs and thought that it would be a good time to do a ‘dry run’ on students before taking it into the classroom for real. Feedback was really positive and a few of the PGDE students are going to try it out.
Thanks for the idea!
Viv
February 16th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
hi! this a mail for Vivi, it is Flo, remember ? plize write me :
floutozusa@yahoo.fr
if you got this message…or if someone can forward this message to Vivien.
Love
Flo