Activities in market place
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Answer:
This strategy gives students the responsibility for planning and developing their own learning on a particular topic. It’s good for developing a sense of independence and confidence (qualities vital in themselves for effective learning) and for building collaborative team-working skills – co-operation, trust, reporting back etc. It can be used at all levels from KS2 (and probably earlier) up to A level. (At universities it’s been used informally for many decades under the heading ‘you go to today’s lecture, I’ll go to tomorrow’s and we’ll exchange notes’).
Explanation:
What’s the strategy?
a) Take a topic which has sub-topics – A, B, C, D and E. Split the class into 5 groups, each taking one sub-topic, and ask each group to create a poster-style presentation on their sub-topic (with a tight word limit so they don’t re-write everything they read). This is simply a way of helping each group to get to grips with their sub-topic. You can give them the ‘research material’ on which to base their poster or send them away to research it properly.
b) When each group is in command of their material it’s time to move on to stage 2 – gathering information about the other sub-topics from the rest of the Market Place. One person in each group stays with their stall. His or her job is to ‘teach’ the basics of their sub-topics to other students visiting their stall. The rest of the group go out visiting – their task is to bring back the core knowledge about each of the other four sub-topics.