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Title: Drawing a Blank


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Drawing a Blank
  • Learning Activities with a Blank Sheet of Paper
  • RTC Instructional Improvement

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Madeline Hunter says
  • The most creative think you can hand your
    learners is a blank piece of paper.

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Put another way
  • A blank piece of paper is an unlimited,
    open-ended, learner-centered information
    generator.

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A blank piece of paper makes learners work with
new information in ways that personally connect
them with what they are learning.
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A blank piece of paper can be
  • Left-Brain (analyze, evaluate)
  • Right-Brain (synthesize, create)
  • Or both

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With a blank piece of paper you and your learners
can find out
  • what they know
  • what the they learned
  • what they are still puzzled about
  • what they plan to do with what they learned

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With a blank piece of paper
  • You can
  • check for understanding
  • correct misconceptions
  • better modify your training to meet your
    learners needs

8
Besides
  • Activities with paper take very little
    preparation time
  • No complicated worksheets
  • No trips to the copy room

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Lets try some!
  • Just grab a piece of paper

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Bingo
  • Fold the paper into 8 boxes
  • Write a word, phrase, concept in each box--from
    notes or overhead slide
  • Walk around to upbeat music
  • Collect signatures of people who can define the
    terms

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Variation
  • In teams play at selecting and defining terms
  • As a review have students generate the list of
    terms

12
Pass the Paper
  • Each student takes a piece of blank paper and
    writes her name and something shes learned so
    far.
  • Pass the paper to a person sitting next to her
  • He adds what he has learned.
  • Students keep passing and writing for at least 5
    or 6 turns.

13
Play Music
  • When the music stops students find their original
    papers and read the comments written on it for
    review

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Variation
  • With each pass tell them what to write
  • Write one fact you remember from the lecture
  • Write a question about something youve learned
  • Write the answer to the question written on the
    paper youre holding
  • Write one thing you can do with the information
    you learned
  • Write this person a compliment

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Another Variation--right after lunch
  • Participants stand and trade papers to write on
    as they move around the room to upbeat music.
  • When the music stops, or when you give a signal,
    they find their own papers and sit

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Or line them up!
  • Have the students stand in a line. After
    writing, they pass their papers down the line.
  • The person at the end of the line runs to the
    other end to pass the paper.
  • Keep writing and passing until they get their
    papers back!

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Four Square --good before break or lunch
  • Fold papers into four squares.
  • Copy the following sentences, one per square
  • My feelings about this topic are
  • The most important thing Ive learned so far is
  • One thing I plan to do with the info is
  • A question, idea, or comment I still have is

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Ticket out
  • Have students write three things theyve learned
    so far
  • Questions they want answered
  • What they plan to do with what theyve learned
  • And pass them in at the end of the class or
    session

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People Hunt-An ice-breaker
  • Fold Paper into 8 squares
  • Write something about themselves in each
    square--favorite foods, movies, books, vacation
    places, car.
  • Walk around and get signatures of people who have
    the same favorites

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Map It
  • Show the students how to Mind-Map and have them
    take notes in a mind mapping or clustering form.
  • Central ideas in the middle of the paper, related
    ideas fanning out and connecting.

21
On the Wall
  • Write an idea, comment, question, aha,
    suggestion.
  • Have students post each type of feedback on a
    different wall

22
Advanced Organizers
  • Have students divide paper into columns or
    squares
  • Label each division with a heading related to the
    subject matter
  • Use the paper as a note taking tool

23
Musical Questions
  • Each student writes a question about the
    information just covered on a card.
  • While music plays pass the cards to the right and
    keep passing until the music stops.
  • Each answers the questions on the cards they
    ended up with, using resources.
  • They share their questions and answers with the
    whole group

24
Coin Toss
  • Divide paper into squares
  • In each square write a term from the material.
  • Take turns tossing a coin onto the paper.
  • The tosser has to define/explain verbally the
    term the coin landed on.

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Snowball Fight
  • Each student writes an action plan--what he plans
    to do with what shes learned--on the blank piece
    of paper
  • All students crumple up their action plans into
    snowballs.
  • When you say snowball fight they throw them.
  • Each person reads the one they pick up
  • If the group is really large form smaller
    standing groups of 4-6 to read the snowballs

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Snowball Variation
  • Introductory Review Activity
  • Students write facts they know or questions about
    the material.
  • Catchers read the facts or answer the questions
    they get.

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Blizzard Balls
  • Groups make up a question or statement on the
    blank paper.
  • Participants wad up paper and teacher collects
    them.
  • She turns her back to the participants and tosses
    the blizzard balls over her shoulder all at
    once.
  • Small groups or triads catch the balls and
    proceed to discuss and agree on answers to the
    question they caught.
  • Present to the group.

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A blank piece of paper
  • How ordinary!

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What a simple thing to use to make your lesson
extraordinary!
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