Did anyone do this NOT as a station activity? My classroom (computer lab) is not really conducive to it at all. If so, any suggestions would be great!
TIA!
I used to have four very long very stuck rows of tables in my classroom and could never really get station activities to flow. I had two strategies that worked:
- I love getting kids up to move, so rather than station tables, I’d post the questions on the walls in the hallway and give them clipboards (or ask them to take a hard surface to write on). In a long hallway, they’d end up working in “pods” around the poster on the wall. No tables, but particularly for kids in a classroom with very few opportunities to move, they really loved it.
- Make the stations move to the kids. I collected the boxes that our office uses for reams of paper, and put the station materials inside (sometimes in ziplocks if there’s a lot of lose parts) and the “key” to flip up taped to the side of the box. Groups would complete the station at their spot, and then find another group to swap boxes with. These particular boxes were a little TOO big - I’d have preferred something like a large shoe box - but they were available and got the job done!
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These are great ideas, thank you! I also like to get the kids up & moving, and generally keep Yes/No/Maybe/Undecided posters up in the corners for impromptu 4 Corners.
I wound up putting the Station A poster at the front of my room, with several stacks of instructions/cards, and Station B in the back with the cards and tape. Definitely not my best lesson, but it worked.
I absolutely love the idea of station boxes! I’ll definitely try to use this in the future.
Thank you!!
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