This document lists various activities that can be used as bell work or starters at the beginning of a class, including word searches, crosswords, odd one out activities, multiple choice questions, worksheets involving definitions, sequences, causes and effects, inferences, diagrams, and other tasks to engage students in reviewing and reinforcing key terms and concepts from previous lessons.

1. Bell work and start ideas
 Word searches
 Crosswords
 Odd one out
 Key term definition match up
 Battleships with key terms – see GCSE Population example
 Dingbats
 Multiple choice questions
 Give a recipe for last lessons learning
 Crack the code – key terms decoding activity
 First letters of terms from last lessons then students workout terms and define the terms
 Chain of events worksheet
 Cause and effects chain worksheet
 True/False statements – students identify true or false statements and then write the
corrections
 2 word thinking – Topic – list words related to the topic – choose the key 2 terms to sum up
the topic
 Analyse the picture – big picture and implications
 Complete the storyboard
 Spot the mistake in the answer and rewrite it
 Double bubble worksheet for differences and similarities
 Cognitive dictionary worksheet
 Making inferences worksheet
 Venn diagram
 Acrostic poem
 Label a diagram
 Sequence the explanation in the correct order
 Devise a headline for previous lessons learning
 Spot the difference
 Alphabet grid/Multiple words for a letter for a topic
 Here’s the answer, what was the question?
 5 W’s worksheet
 Thunks
 Cartoons – linked to learning
 Complete the sentences
 Correct the spellings
 Anagrams
 Reorganise the boxes to make sentences