First Day Activity High School Middle School Gallery Walk Group or Virtual
- Google Drive™ folder
Description
This activity gets your students moving, working together, and thinking. It is a low-prep, high yield activity! Students walk through eight stations completing ideas about what makes them successful students! After the gallery walk they work together in groups to discover, categorize, evaluate, create.
What's Included
- Two google slides presentations
- One includes the slides you need to print to do a in-person paper-based gallery walk and the instructions
- The other presentation provides the resources needed to a do virtual Google Jamboard based gallery walk and instructions
- Bonus: A created Jamboard to use for virtual classrooms!
- Bonus: Update 23/24 School year- A class agreements document! After completing the gallery walk, students reflect and create their own agreements to make their school year successful!
Why Students benefit
This activity helps students begin the metacognitive process of thinking about their thinking and learning!
It lays the foundation of what helps students succeed in the class. The beauty is that you, as the teacher, are not trying to tell them what is needed, they are shown what is needed by their fellow students and themselves!!
It shows that, as a class, many of the same things are needed to be successful and they have a responsibility to themselves and their peers to work toward that! It is a great starting point for building classroom culture.
Why you will LOVE it
You are not lecturing students on your expectations, you are allowing them to discover it for themselves! It is minimal prep and creates wonderful teaching moments.
It works well with this FREE Icebreaker activity
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Hexagonal Thinking- includes a beginning of the year One Pager
Secondary Classroom Rules and Whiteboard Signs
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