Recall
You need note cards for this Learning Strategy in which students turn over 2 cards to try and make a match.
Memory
This Learning Strategy acts as a mock test where students can answer questions and solve problems independently while using notes.
Informal Quiz
This three-column organizer helps students identify what they already know, what they want to know, and what they learned by the end of the session.
KWL
This visual organizer compares two concepts by showing similarities in the overlapping section and differences on the outside.
Venn Diagram
Students randomly select vocabulary words, questions, or problems from a collection and explain or solve what they pick.
Grab Bag
Similar to a popular icebreaker game, this Learning Strategy gives students 3 statements but only one of them is factual.
2 Lies and a Truth
With this Learning Strategy, students work together to create quizzes for one another, exchange them, complete them, and compare answers.
Make/Take a Practice Quiz
Students spend 60 seconds writing down what they know about a topic in their own words before sharing with the group.
One Minute Paper
This "spider web" Learning Strategy connects related concepts around one central idea to help students see the bigger picture.
Concept Mapping
Students rotate from station to station, solving different sets of questions or problems before discussing all solutions together.
Round Robin
With this Learning Strategy, a student will be given clues on what word, phrase, or problem they are holding up to their forehead.
Heads Up
When using this Learning Strategy, students categorize the prior knowledge as “ingredients” and then list step-by-step instructions needed to solve a problem.
Write a Recipe
This Learning Strategy asks students to write everything they can remember about the topic to assess their understanding.
Brain Dump
With this Learning Strategy, students read portions of their lecture notes aloud while classmates add missing details or ask questions.
Note Review
This Learning Strategy asks students to think like their instructor by writing possible exam questions and discussing whether they are likely to appear on a test.
Predict Test Questions
This Learning Strategy is a play on a popular game show in which 2 teams go head-to-head to guess terms relevant to a general category. These top answers were compiled from a class survey.
Family Feud
This Learning Strategy has students complete only one step of a practice question before passing it to another student until the entire solution is finished.
Send a Problem
This reflection activity asks students to identify three topics they can teach, two they still need help with, and one possible test question.
3-2-1
This Learning Strategy has students use textbook headings to build a chapter "skeleton," then identify the key ideas and supporting details beneath each heading.
Outline Text Chapter
Instead of focusing only on the correct answer, this Learning Strategy emphasizes explaining each step used to reach the solution.
Summarize the Procedure/Steps
When using this Learning Strategy, two students stand up and go head-to-head to answer a question. The student who answers correctly moves on to a new opponent and the game continues until someone wins against every student.
Around the World
This problem-solving method divides the board into four sections: prerequisite knowledge, mathematical steps, narrative of the steps, and an additional sample problem.
Boardwork Model
This strategy asks students, "If you could only remember one concept from today's lesson, what would it be?"
Identifying the Big Idea
Students organize scrambled terms into meaningful categories before defining or explaining each term.
Vocab Development
Students solve a sequence of clues or problems in order to "break out of the room" or complete a challenge while reviewing course concepts.
Escape Room/Scavenger Hunt