Pass the Question - differentiation to music.
This is an effective and enjoyable starter that revises key skills. It is based on the popular childhood game of pass the parcel with students answering questions when the music stops. By cheating and stopping the music at a targeted student you can then ensure you are getting a student who is pupil premium or SEN etc. to respond. Thus testing their memory and ensuring that differentiation is being achieved.
Choose a piece of music that reflects your chosen topic - at the end of the starter you can challenge students to consider why you have chosen that particular piece. For instance naming the bones of the body while showing the Thriller animation video on You Tube which has dancing skeletons! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhflzGDiDIM
There are then several ways of organizing the game:
- have a box with a series of questions in it that is passed around the class or
- have a card with a question mark on it that is passed around. either have the questions appear on board or have a question that there are multiple answers that can be given e.g. name all the capital cities of Europe / what does each letter of AFOREST represent etc.
- you can either seat class in a circle or keep them in their seats for the box or question mark card to be passed around
- alternatively if you have the class sat in smaller group you can have multiple cards / boxes being passed around and select a student randomly from one of the different groups to answer the question
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