Jenga Learning
The idea is simple. As a flipped learning homework you ask students to come up with four questions on the unit of work that you are studying. The first 2 can be comprehension or recall questions such as Where do the Birling family live in An Inspector Calls? 1 question should be a SMSC based question which has wider implications e.g. What does An Inspector Calls teach us about life and morals? Finally you ask for an exam style question e.g. Explore how Priestley uses the character of the Inspector within the play to present his views.
The students are being challenged to think about a range of questions which involve different thinking skills and their incentive is that when they come in next lesson their starter is to put them on different sides of a jenga block and peer assess them with their neighbour.
At the end of the unit or as a revision activity they can then play a game of Jenga which involves answering differentiated questions before placing their block on top of the stack. I did this as one activity in a carousel of KS4 independent revision tasks and it went down well!
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