Engaging Class Activities
What's In The Bag?
Very few activities give every student the class to shine as the Assemblage. In this activity teams make something together in planned individual parts. At the end they assemble their parts together (e.g., a love poem using a class concept for each couplet). This means each student gets time to work on their own perfect small piece before it is present as part of the whole assemblage in class.
The Assemblage
Very few activities give every student the class to shine as the Assemblage. In this activity teams make something together in planned individual parts. At the end they assemble their parts together (e.g., a love poem using a class concept for each couplet). This means each student gets time to work on their own perfect small piece before it is present as part of the whole assemblage in class.
The Fold
The fold is a great assignment to get students to see how everything has many layers or "folds." It also gets students to practice communication. The core of the fold is that with many people, theories, or things we see only one fold. Students put that in the center fold. But then they show how many different hidden folds there are. For instance a YouTube creators is successful for more than one reason.
Interactive Museum
Sticky note activities are a great way to start up a longer activity in any physical space. Here students marked up a museum. Students wrote terms from classes on different colored sticky notes. The color scheme the different notes indicated class terms done well or poorly. This laid the foundation for many different things. For instance, when you do something like this, you can easily crowd source which ideas students do not understand as well and walk the students to that section. You can have students respond to each others' assessments. You can also have a museum exhibit designer talk with students about the practicalities of putting concepts into action and while their criticisms are valid there are reasons. And it short, it is just a pretty spectacular experience to have within 10 minutes hundreds of student comments marking up a space like a museum.