LOSE THE LECTURE
Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. Carl Wieman once found that a mere 10% of students remember information they received in a lecture a mere 20 minutes before. These pedagogical alternatives help teachers put the students to the center of the action. Browse libraries of similarly themed activity collections inside of the blue section located just below, or scroll down to the white section to explore an ever-expanding array of totally unique ways to Lose The Lecture that you can start using right away.
LOSE THE LECTURE COLLECTIONS:
Big Sheet Showdowns
Sometimes the best way to break up what otherwise might have been a traditional sit-and-get lecture is to think big! The Big Sheet Showdown collection offers teachers all kinds of creative ways to get students up and moving in your classroom using oversized anchor charts.
Devilish Debates
Any parent of a two-year-old or a teenager will be quick to tell you that our kids really love to argue. But helping young people craft arguments that are more than just bluster can be a bit of a challenge for any teachers of any content area. This resource collection helps students hone their argumentative abilities.
Hero Builder
Which of these two approaches sounds more engaging: “Reading long-form unit introductions with the sole intent of memorizing random dates, facts, and unfamiliar vocabulary words?” Or “Crafting your very own historical avatar to prepare for an epic quest?” You can feel the difference, right? Welcome to Hero Builder.
Hexagon Hunters
With Hexagon Hunters, teachers can quickly transform *any* lesson plan into a showdown of student-centered strategies and problem solving. This handy hexagonal approach to small group learning uses an interactive board game approach to put students squarely in the driver’s seat. Simply print, project, and play!
QR BreakIns
Picture a class escape room… in reverse! Student teams working through a series of modular challenges in an effort to crack the code on your course content. This fully-editable collection of QR Break In activities helps teachers turn any old-school-centers activity into a pulse-pounding competition.
Reality TV Roundups
In the Reality TV Roundups collection, the only thing more exciting than student-centered creativity is the *drama* that awaits. In this lineup, your pupils become producers with the chance to re-cast their favorite TV shows with brand new celebrity stars inspired by your course content. Binge your favorite series with a click!
Rehash Rally
Working on retrieval practices with your students and want them to mix the current unit and past units? Take your students for a spin with this resource that will have them recalling all sorts of info in a fun and fast paced way. These make great activities before long breaks like winter recess!
RPG Dice Roll Rumble
Looking for a way to level up your classroom activities? Meet the RPG Dice Roll Rumble, the ultimate gamified learning adventure that turns any subject into an epic quest! Transform ordinary lessons into extraordinary experiences, with small groups battling bosses through up to five sequential activity stations at their own pace.
Scramble Centers
Not quite ready for a full-blown QR Break In? No sweat. To quote The Six Million Dollar Man: “We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.” Scramble Centers combines the most engaging elements of the QR Break In with a streamlined, quick-design interface for even faster lesson planning.
Socratic Seminar Upgrades
In ancient Greece, Socrates was regarded as the wisest teacher ever to have lived. But not because he pretended to have all of the answers. Rather — the “Socratic Method” was a series of well-timed questions that forced the wiseman’s students to explain their thinking. This collection helps teachers do the same.
Suit Strategies
Grab a deck of cards and shuffle up some serious student engagement! Suit Strategies turns everyday lessons into high-stakes showdowns of skill and strategy. Teams earn, wager, and win their way to victory—testing brains, nerve, and teamwork in every round. Pick a theme and deal out a low prep alternative to your ordinary lecture.
Sundown Showdown
Sundown Showdown is a multi-day pedagogy inspired by the long-running reality TV juggernaut series “Survivor.” Only in this series, your students won’t be competing in physical challenges and voting one another off of the island — they’ll be engaging in a daily battle of wits against their classmates and rival tribes!
Station 2 Station
Teachers often talk about the difference between “Centers” (a loose collection of related activities that students can visit as they wish) and “Stations” (a fixed collection of activities that you want to make sure that every student completes). Station 2 Station shows you how to turn the latter into a total game changer.
Territory Takedown
This is a fantastic activity that will have students giving you a TON of content. The premise is simple, and the action is epic: students answer questions to earn the right to lay claim to different spaces on a massively oversized game map. The action is larger than life, which makes Territory Takedown a big hit for content acquisition or review!
Text Quest
One simple pedagogy + Three small choices = Limitless classroom potential. Text Quest is a step-by-step lesson planning framework that show helps teachers transform any day’s instruction into an interactive Role Playing Game — with your students gleefully digging for relevant text evidence in hopes to win the game.
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