‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’ - Variety of Activities:
‘And so’ statements
1 - 2 - 4 paired discussion
3 minute design task
30 seconds to say without hesitation
3D sculpture
5 experts, 5 groups - teach groups and
solve problem
A day in the life of
Accurate marking out
Acting
Actions
Adding up
Adult led
AFL - thumbs traffic light
AFL ball game
Air-balloon debate
All put response on a post it
Alphabet singing
Anagrams
Analyse/interpret
Analysing pictures
Analysing text
Animal sounds
Animation
Annotating
Answering questions
Antiques Roadshow
Apply a new skill to a scenario
Argue
Around the world
Art work
Artistic expression of ideas
Ask the audience
Ask the expert
Assess other’s work
Assessing
Assumed identity
Audio
Audio tapes
Back to back draws
Back to the board
Baking (e.g. to work out ratios)
Ball games, e.g. as starter
Balloon debate
BBC Newsround
Beads
Beat the teacher
Being in role
Big question
Big write
Bingo type games
Blockbusters
Blockbusters on IWB
Blogging
Board games
Board room style presentation
Book review
Book work
Booklet
Books
Boxing up
Brain gym
Brainstorm
Breaking rules
Building database
Calculations
Call and response
Cameras
Campaigns
Card games
Card matching
Card sorts
Carousel
Carousel of Creation
Cartoon strips
Cartooning
Case study
Cat and mouse
Catching/throwing
Categorising
Ceramics
Chain questions - one leads to the next
Chain races
Chair building (DT)
Chalk and talk
Challenge!
Chanting
Characters
Charades
Child as expert
Child initiated
Children making powerpoints
Chinese whispers
Choosing time
Circle time
Class assemblies
Class brainstorm
Class enquiry (P4C)
Class feedback on post its
Class reading
Class still image photo
Class survey
Clay
Clip observation
Close eyes - listen to sound effects
Cloze procedure
Coach
Coaching - children as coach
Collage
Collect and stick
Collecting
Collective voice
Colour coding
Colouring
Colouring by numbers
Colouring in
Communicating
Compare bears
Comparing
Competition
Composition of songs
Comprehension - auditory and reading
Computing
Conscience alley
Construction
Contrast
Controlled assessment
Converting pictures into words
Cookery
Cool experiments
Co-operative rally
Copy an artwork
Copy with left hand
Copying from board
Count down
Countdown games
Counting
Craft making
Crawling
Create a play
Create own learning objectives
Creating a word document
Creating board games
Creative writing, e.g. diary
Criss-cross
Critical friend
Criticise/criticism
Critics
Cross curricular activities/learning
Crosswords
Cryptogram
Cut and glue - ordering
Cut and stick
Cut and stick matching
Cutting and sequencing
Cutting out
Cutting paper, designing ideas
Dancing and performance
Darts
Debate
Decision alley/line
Decision making exercise
Define
Define key words
Demonstration and analysis
Demonstration and do
Demonstrations
Describe
Describe a photograph - anything you
can think of
Describing pictures
Descriptive talk partners
Descriptive writing
Desert Island Discs
Design
Design a board game
Designing and making objects linked
to topic
Designing products
Desk graffiti
Develop strategy/tactics
Devising a song
Diagrams
Dialogue
Dialogue alley
Diary entry
Dice
Dictating
Didactic teaching
Different operations
Different voices
Digging
Directing a discussion
Discovery through play
Discuss in pairs
Discussion
Display work
Dissecting
Dissemination
Distillation
Distributing
Dividing
DJ-ing
Do a survey
Do it in an alternative style
Do some sums
Documentary
Doing a craft
Dominoes
Dominoes - match answers to question
Drama - physical
Drama - talking hats
Draw a graph
Draw a graph of how you think the
lesson went or is going
Draw from memory
Draw what is described
Draw with a long brush and a stick
Draw without taking hand off page
Drawing and labelling
Drawing maps and planning journeys
Drilling
Driving test
Drumming
DVDs
Eating
Elections
Electronics
Emails
Empathy
Empower students
Enquiry
Envoys
Equations
Essay questions
Essay writing
Evaluation
Exam papers
Exam practice
Exam prep
Exam/test
Experience
Experiment
Experimenting
Explain
Explanations
Extended topic
Extended writing
Eye spy
Family fortunes
Feature race
Feeding back
Feeling
Feely bags
Fictional story
Field work
Fill in missing words
Fill in the blanks
Filling in sheets
Film an activity
Films
Find a quote
Find it grab it
Finding places on a map
Finish off each other’s sentences
Finishing off
First hand experience - playing
Flash animations
Flash cards
Flow chart
Follow me
Follow on from what last person said
Football
Forest school
Forest school cooking
Forum theatre
Freeze frame
Frequency tables
Fruit salad
Games
Games @ whiteboard
Gap filling
Gluing
Going around the school
Going on a hunt/journey
Grading questions
Grammar gym
Graphology
Graphs & charts
Group - 1 person stays
Group analysis of text
Group debate
Group discussion
Group drama
Group feedback
Group improvisation
Group performance
Group presentation
Group Q&As
Group quiz
Group reading
Group reading of a play
Group task
Group work
Group work on whiteboards
Group writing
Grow
Guess my … (post it note on head)
Guess the …
Guess the object
Guess the similes/metaphors in a box
Guess who
Guessing
Guided fantasy
Guided reading/writing
Hairdressing
Hammering
Handwriting
Hangman
Hat making
Headlines
Heads and tails
Here’s the answer, what’s the question
Highlighting
Hopping
Hot potatoes
Hot seating
How to fight a boss as Zelda
Human photocopies
Human scale
Hypothesis testing
ICT, computers
Ideas drops
Identify
Illustration
Imagination
Imagination box
Improvisation
Independent activity
Independent learning
Independent learning posters
Independent writing
Indian dribble around the cones
Individual ‘mini’ whiteboards
Individual routine
Individual work
Information carousel
Information hunt
Instruments
Interactive games
Interactive whiteboard
Internet research
Interview
Interview a character
Investigation - fact finding
Isolation exercises
IT competition
IWB games
Jigsaws
Jigsawing
Job share
Jot down your favourite subject
Judge
Jumping
Junk modelling
Just a minute
Key words
Knitting
Labelling diagrams
Large pieces of paper for students to
write on
Laughing
Layout, plan, design, prototype
Leaflet
Learn a new skill
Learn key words
Learn to teach
Learning leaders
Learning partners
Learning review
Learning through songs/rhymes
Lego
Lesson planning for student
Letter to a friend
Letter writing
Letting the children choose what they
want to learn
Linear order
Linguascope games
Linking
Listen
Listen and repeat
Listening activity
Listening and drawing picture
Listening to a CD
Listening to music
Listing
Lolly stick or pen group debate
Lolly sticks
Looking
Loop cards
Loop game
Lotto game
Make a cartoon
Make a documentary
Make a game
Make a mask
Make a model
Make a video
Make notes
Make someone a manager
Make the link - linking words and
phrases
Make-up
Making films
Making music
Making own resource
Making up rhymes to remember facts
Mantle of the expert
Map work
Mapping
Mapping from memory
Mark making
Market place
Mask making
Mastermind
Match in pairs
Matching activity
Matching definitions & answers
Matching pairs on post its around the
room
Maths trail
Measuring
Measuring objects
Memorising
Memory challenge
Memory games
Mental maths
Mentoring
Messy play
Millionaire
Miming
Mind maps
Mini whiteboards
Mini whiteboards for maths
Mirroring
Mixed ability
Mnemonics
Model answers
Modelling
Modelling exam answers
Modelling physically with pupils
Models
Modifying
Monkey talk
Monologue
Mood board
Moulding
Movement
Movie Maker
Movie making
Multiple choice (who wants to be a
millionaire)
Multiple choice cards Q&A
Multiplying
Murder to solve
Music
Music - write a song
Musical chairs
Musical response
Mystery
Negotiating
News bug
News report
Newspaper article
Note taking
Noughts and crosses
Number shark
Objects
Observational drawing
Observe partner
Observing
Obstacle course
Officiate
Online blog
Ordering
Origami
Outdoor activities
Outside classroom
Outside environment, e.g. tessellation
in the outside
Outside speakers
P4C (Philosophy for Children)
Paint using one colour and white
Painting
Pair work
Paired reading
Paired sequence
Paired speaking
Paired talk
Paired teaching
Pairs - think, share
Pairs cards
Papier mache
Parachute
Pass talking stick
Pass the ball
Pass the book
Pass the parcel
Past papers
Pastels
Pay me back
PE
Peer assessment
Peer assessment after a class
performance
Peer marking
Peer mentoring
Peer teaching
Peer tutor
Perfecting
Performance
Persuasive writing
Philosophy for children (P4C)
Phone a friend
Phonics
Phonics full circle
Photographs
Photography
Physical activities
Physical assessment
Pick a person, pass it on
Pictionary
Pictionary race
Picture editing
Ping pong type games
Pint with
Plan
Planning
Planting seeds
Plasticine
Plasticine explanations
Play-doh
Playing an instrument
Playing with sand
Podcast
Poem writing
Poetry
Pond dipping
Post it ideas
Posters
Pottery
Powerpoint presentation
PQE charts
Practical investigation
Practicals
Practise exam questions
Practising problems
Preparing
Presentations
Presenting answers to questions as
poster/info
Printing
Problem solving
Problem solving scenarios
Problem solving through fantasy (e.g.
as knights)
Projects
Props set up
Punctuation exercises
Pupil demonstrations
Pupil explanation
Pupil participation
Pupil teachers
Pupil teaches a tense at the board
Pupils explain methods
Pupils generate objectives/outcomes
Pupils work on board
Puppets
Puzzles
Q&A
Question of maths/geography, etc.
Question wall
Questioning
Questionnaires - collecting data
Questions - pass the ball
Quilting
Quiz
Quiz busters
Quizdom
Races
Radio broadcast
Radio show
Rally
Rally robin
Randomly generated learning buddies
Range of different materials
Range of objects
Ranking
Rapping
Ratio (using cubes)
Reading
Reading aloud
Reading an image (painting/photo)
Reading for meaning
Reading race
Reciprocal teaching
Reciting
Recording scenes
Recording work - visual/audio
Reflecting
Reflection
Relate theory to real life (e.g. go to
Tesco on trip and actually buy with
money)
Relaxing, e.g. yoga
Relays
Remembering
Repeating - range of voices
Report
Research
Research - computers
Research projects
Review/evaluate
Revising
Revision posters
Ring words
Role play
Role play - dressing up, miming, reenacting
Rope of opinion
Rotate groups
Round robin
Run a race
Running dictation
Sand/water trays
Sanding
Sawing
Science experiments
Scientific models
Scrabble
Scripting stories
Sculpture
Select: leader, coach, umpire
Self assessment
Self assessment - record
Self evaluation
Send children to collect data
Sensory analysis
Sentence building
Sequencing
Set out
Set targets
Sewing
Shadowing
Share ideas
Shared reading
Shared writing
Shop - adding/subtracting
Shouting
Show and tell
Show of hands
Silent maths
Silent reading
Silent think
Similes
Simon Says
Simulated activities
Singing
Singing times table songs
Singing to teach concepts
Sitting quietly, working
Sketching
Skill development
Skills showcase
Skinny Q Fact Q
Skipping
Sleeping
Small group work
Small world play
Smart board activities and games
Smelling
Smile
Snap
Snowballing
Social thinking
Soldering
Solve quadratic equations
Sometimes always never
Song!
Sorting
Sorting activity - poetic devices
Speaking
Speed dating
Speed typing
Spelling
Spelling strategies
Spider grams
Spider graph
Spider map
Spinners
SPLAT
Splat the board
Sports
Spot the difference
Spreadsheet
Stand and share
Standing in line (to show levels of
agreement)
Star of the week
Statements that they have to choose
Statues
Stealing numbers
Sticking
Still image
Stimulus (object)
Stories
Story board
Story boxes
Story mapping - book talk
Story telling
Stream of consciousness
Student as teacher: 2 - 5 minutes
Student interviews
Student led
Student presentations
Students plan own session
Students prepare a topic/question to
show class
Students teaching lessons
Students writing questions for each
other
Summarising
Summary sentence
Survey
Swimming
Symmetrical patterns
Synthesising
TA as ‘teacher’
Table aerobics
Tableau
Taboo
Take 10
Take on a new role - organiser/coach
Take photos
Taking on a role
Talk to class
Talking partners
Tally charts
Tasting
Teach another pupil a skill quickly
Teach the lesson
Teach the teacher
Teach your group
Teacher assessment
Teacher in role
Teacher led
Teaching partners
Team games
Team teaching
Team work
Tell me what you don’t know
Telling latest jokes
Tennis
Test
Testing
Text book
Text conversion
Text messaging
Text someone what you’ve learned
Theorising
Think, pair, share
Thinking
Thinking circle
Thinking hat games
Thinking hats
Thinking time
This is the answer, what is the
question?
Thought bubble
Thought out loud
Thought showers
Thought track
Threading
Throw
Throw the ball
Throwing paper planes to share ideas
Throwing the ball to student to answer
questions
Thumbs up
Tick list
Tidy up time to song
Tidying
Timed competitions
Timed task
Times table challenge
Top trumps
Topic sentences
Touching/feeling
Trade an idea
Traffic lights
Translating
Travelling
Tray game
Treasure hunt - clues
Trick question
Triominoes - key/stem word in middle,
facts around it in triangle
Trips
True and false
Turn a table into a graph
Turn subject content into a poem/song
TV advert
TV interviews
TV report
TV video
TV/DVDs
Twenty questions
Two stars and a wish
Typing practice
Under/over
Use games’ principles across a variety
of games
Use of equipment
Using compasses
Using environment
Using photos as stimulus
Using post its
Variation on ‘guess who’ with
numbers
Verb recital
Verbal football
Video
Video analysis
Video production
Videos - You tube
Visitors
Visual aids
Visual resources
Visual word link
Vocabulary matching
Voiceover on a silent video clip
Voting buttons
Wake and shake - kick start
Walk around to ‘evaluate’ pieces of
work
Walks - what shapes can they see?
Wanted posters
Warm up/cool down
Watch a clip
Watch a video
Water play
Watercolour painting
Weaving
Weighing
Welding
What to do sheet
What’s wrong?
Whispering
Whistling
Whiteboard
Who am I?
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Who’s Who?
Whole class discussion
Whole class in role
Whole class reading
Whole part whole
Whoosh
Wii
Wikis
Wink murder
Woodwork
Word association game
Word chains
Word search
Word shark
Worksheets
Write a letter
Write a play
Write a script
Write a song
Write a story about …
Write a test
Write an acrostic
Write an essay
Write and run
Write learning objectives
Write questions for others
Writing a story in pairs
Writing frames
Writing ideas on a post it
Writing questions
Written essay
Yoga
You say we pay
You Tube
Zoo keeping