The document lists over 50 different lesson activity ideas that teachers can use, including using play dough to create models, card sorting activities, watching video clips, poetry writing, using post-it notes for a flipchart, and games like bingo, dominoes, and pass the parcel. It also includes ideas for class discussions like debates and role playing, as well as thinking activities like rainbow thinking on strategies and relational diagrams.

1. Lesson Activity Ideas
 Rainbow thinking – on effects or least/most effective management strategies
 Gambling quiz
 Family fortunes – What would you pack in a survival kit? What labels would be included on a
diagram of…?
 Play dough models
 Show me – using whiteboards students respond to teacher questions
 Use post it notes to make a flipchart
 Cut and stick activities
 Card sort activities
 DVD/video clips
 Poetry / stories
 Relational Diagrams – thinking / revision on relationships.
 Marble thinking
o Join up marbles sharing the same theme
o Make largest unbroken line
o Start anywhere
o Lines can cross themselves and each other
o Lines can’t come back on themselves
 Word snakes
 Find someone who…
 Taboo
 Stepping stones
 I went to market…
 Goldfish bowl activity
 Rapid dough game with key terms/landforms etc…
 Bingo
 Dominoes / Loop of fury
 Splat
 Debonos
 Quick of the drawer
 Map from memory
 Pass the buck
 Question of…
 Picture reveal
 Quiz Quiz Trade
 Back to Back
 What am I quiz
 Pass the parcel
 Ready Steady Teach
 Mysteries
 Diamond 9
 Speed dating

2.  Y maps
 Red, green ball key terms activity
 Corporate identity
 Discussion carousel
 Role play
 Make a game e.g. design a global warming game
 Play a game e.g. water cycle game
 Debates e.g. brownfield versus greenfield development
 Pairs card sort
 Key terms cards – put definition side down and term side up – have to turn over cards by
giving correct definition – partner checks. Then repeat but the other way around.
 Market place
 Masterminds
 Memory board
 One to one
 Think pair share
 Scrambled groups
 Silent sentences
 Spotlight