Whenever I get an idea for a new activity I code it

Red

 Really fun for them a lot of planning for me. Something they wont forget. An event

Yellow

A staple but fun classroom activity  that promotes knowledge and understanding in a similar way to red but more practical to do more often.

Green

Something we can do on a regular basis that they quite like usually reinforces knowledge

Blue

A good skill developer nothing special but can divert them in a lesson

You may also want to letter code the activities to show which learning style they favour this way it can be flagged in the scheme of work and you can ensure that you address all learning styles during a 6 week period.

•         For every topic I cover I aim to have the following

•         1-2 reds

•         3-4 yellows

•         4-8 Greens

•         4-8 Blues

Aim being the operative word it may take a couple of years to get to that.

I find doing this pushes me to think up (or develop with my friends)  red activities for the more boring topics .It also ensures I don’t go to long making the students  listen to my droning on. As I get around to uploading some of my ideas I will code them this way and then those of you who have read this will be in the know.

Red

•         Crime scene investigates

•         Set up a campaign against something as a pressure group (soc)

•         Who killed Jon Bernet Ramsey a jury activity

•         Interview a granddad/grandma (guest to class) (soc) or mother (psych)

•         Lets play house

•         Treasure hunt

•         Make a video of

•         Puppet show grand scale

•         Conduct Godden and Baddeley experiment ie underwater at leisure centre

•         Two tribes (robbers cave event)

Yellow

•         The jigsaw task

•         Building society in (Lego Soc)

•         Role play Milgram or other experiments

•         Really good videos

•         Fill the bubble

•         Making power points

•         Re-enacting experiments and making the props

•         Speed dating variations

Green

•         Splat game

•         You say we pay

•         Snakes and ladders

•         Snowballs

•         Therapy

•         Dinner party

•         Holiday game

•         Sociology monopoly

•         Pass the parcel charades

•         Chinese whispers facts

 Blue

•         Click and drags

•         Card sorting task

•         Sheets to fill in

•         Draw a study

•         Demonstrations

•         Making studies or theories into stories

•         Draw a graph from information

•         Write a letter about an issue or therapy

•         Make a diary entry about a therapy or anything

•         Make a speech criticising someone entitled and another thing