Looking for a helping hand to help break up the horde of information that inevitably piles up as your students cram to review for the end of the school year? As teachers, we know that the end of any unit can cause all sorts of content to get lost in the shuffle as our students struggle to keep track of all that they’ve learned, and so the creative team here at EMC² Learning decided to borrow some inspiration from one of our favorite reality TV franchises in order to help classrooms around the world do a cleaner job of separating the proverbial “junk” from the gems.
Check out these all new activities to help them discover creative ways to unpack all the good stuff!
BIDDING MEETS BUILDING WITH BLOCK PARTY LOCKDOWN
Looking for a helping hand to help break up the horde of information that inevitably piles up as your students cram to review for an end-of-unit assessment? Grab some building bricks and fire up this activity to help your learners separate the junk from the gems. How many colorful creations can you construct (and photograph!) inspired by our current unit of study? Tell those rival teams to hit the bricks — because it’s game on for a learning activity that is guaranteed to “click” with students of any age.
LOOT LOCKER ROCKERS TURNS STUDENTS INTO TEACHERS
Get ready to rock with the element of surprise! In Loot Locker Rockers, student teams scramble to generate review questions and relevant facts based on all sorts of items related to your course content. But the best part is: it’s ZERO prep for all parties involved, and everyone in class will walk away with a full-blown study guide for their efforts. Soak in the excitement as the fully editable slideshow handles all of the heavy lifting. And watch a bidding war break out as students go “all in” for content review.
CRACK OPEN THE ABC’s OF STUDENT-CENTERED REVIEW WITH SECRET LETTER LOCKUP
Lock down some serious student creativity as teams recap all sorts of content from your current unit of study with Secret Letter Lockup. This alphabet themed variant of the Storage Unit Surprises lineup is deceptively simple yet jam-packed with potential for some seriously high-level thinking. Simply fire up the slideshow for an all new activity that’s full of strategy and wow factor that can work for any content area!
STORY DICE STORAGE WARS HELPS STUDENTS GET THE PICTURE
In this hilarious, high stakes showdown of surprises, your students will raid their memory banks and compete with rival teams to recap everything they can think of that’s related to your current unit of study. The twist? They’ll have to do so by using all sorts of randomly generated images that are likely to have absolutely no obvious connection to what you’re teaching whatsoever… which makes for a low-prep, high engagement approach to lateral thinking and content review with replay value that’s off the charts. Place a bid on a secret storage unit and unlock deep learning!
STORY LOCKER SMACKDOWN ADDS AN ELEMENT OF SURPRISE
Mix up the modalities and catch your classes by surprise with Storage Locker Smackdown! In this frenzied free-for-all, rival teams of students will be placing mystery bids on hidden prompts and unlocking all sorts of creative ways to show what they’ve learned. So will your students be building 3D models of what they’ve learned out of LEGO bricks or churning out three column graphic organizers in an effort to show what they know? The possibilities (and the surprises) here are endless! Simply pop a small handful of your favorite modes of student self expression into the fully editable slideshow and open the doors to some serious creative fun in any classroom.
The activities featured in this blog post are just a handful of the 700+ resources available in the EMC² Learning library. This entire library is available to Engagement Engineers and members of the Creative Corps, and is included with your annual site membership. We hope you’ll consider joining us as an Engagement Engineer to unlock a full year of site access. For complete details including our exclusive limited time offer for annual site membership, click here.
