Find Someone Who - The Teacher Toolkit
Find Someone Who - The Teacher Toolkit is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Ask everyone to stand up and begin the activity for a set amount of time. You may want to provide a prize to the first student to complete the chart or, if you decide to use the activity to play Bingo, the first person to get five in a row.
- You can also use it as a “getting to know you” activity to build community in the classroom.
- Preparation Prepare 10 to 20 “Find Someone Who” statements using vocabulary or concepts that relate to your current unit of study.
- You can use a bingo-card format or checklist.
- Directions Announce that the class is going to do a brief interview activity in which students will ask each other questions.
- The goal is to ask everyone in class until students find someone who does that activity, has that characteristic, or can answer the question.
- Pass out the bingo sheet or checklist to each student.
- Review the sheet and answer any questions.
- Instruct students to find someone who can answer one of their questions or say “yes” to one of the descriptions.
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Ask everyone to stand up and begin the activity for a set amount of time. You may want to provide a prize to the first student to complete the chart or, if you decide to use the activity to play Bingo, the first person to get five in a row.
You can also use it as a “getting to know you” activity to build community in the classroom.
Preparation Prepare 10 to 20 “Find Someone Who” statements using vocabulary or concepts that relate to your current unit of study.
You can use a bingo-card format or checklist.
Directions Announce that the class is going to do a brief interview activity in which students will ask each other questions.
The goal is to ask everyone in class until students find someone who does that activity, has that characteristic, or can answer the question.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Find Someone Who - The Teacher Toolkit. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask everyone to stand up and begin the activity for a set amount of time. You may want to provide a prize to the first student to complete the chart or, if you decide to use the activity to play Bingo, the first person to get five in a row.; You can also use it as a “getting to know you” activity to build community in the classroom.; Preparation Prepare 10 to 20 “Find Someone Who” statements using vocabulary or concepts that relate to your current unit of study.; You can use a bingo-card format or checklist.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The current corpus has one observed source organization: The Teacher Toolkit. (1 source observed, including The Teacher Toolkit.)
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