Pictionary - The Teacher Toolkit
Pictionary - 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
- Create a list of vocabulary terms or concepts relevant to the current topic or unit.
- Divide your class into groups of three or four students. Give each group a marker and a white board or pieces of scratch paper to draw on. Ask them to draw a score box on their paper or whiteboard to keep track of their points as they play.
- Send one student from each group to the front of the room to get the first word or concept from you. Whisper and/or show the word(s) to the students on an index card so the rest of the class won’t know the word.
- As you’re watching students play, choose the drawing that is most representative of the concept and share with students. Lead a discussion about why this is the best representation.
- Have another student from each group come up to play the next round. Continue play until everyone has a chance to draw at least once.
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Prompts to use +
Create a list of vocabulary terms or concepts relevant to the current topic or unit.
Divide your class into groups of three or four students. Give each group a marker and a white board or pieces of scratch paper to draw on. Ask them to draw a score box on their paper or whiteboard to keep track of their points as they play.
As you’re watching students play, choose the drawing that is most representative of the concept and share with students. Lead a discussion about why this is the best representation.
Have another student from each group come up to play the next round. Continue play until everyone has a chance to draw at least once.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Pictionary - The Teacher Toolkit. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Create a list of vocabulary terms or concepts relevant to the current topic or unit.; Divide your class into groups of three or four students. Give each group a marker and a white board or pieces of scratch paper to draw on. Ask them to draw a score box on their paper or whiteboard to keep track of their points as they play.; As you’re watching students play, choose the drawing that is most representative of the concept and share with students. Lead a discussion about why this is the best representation.; Have another student from each group come up to play the next round. Continue play until everyone has a chance to draw at least once.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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