Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • Primers

    Uploaded by

    api-643371905
    290 views2 pages
    The positive primer is intended to set students' mindsets to learning in a positive way at the beginning of a lesson. It provides an opportunity for students to feel a sense of success through an activity that makes them smile or primes their brain for learning. Examples of positive primers include having students think about how ready they are to learn, doing a quick drawing activity, playing a short guessing game, or doing a brief word activity related to the lesson topic. The goal is to create a positive learning environment through a short 2-3 minute activity at the start of class.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    primers

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    The positive primer is intended to set students' mindsets to learning in a positive way at the beginning of a lesson. It provides an opportunity for students to feel a sense of success through an activity that makes them smile or primes their brain for learning. Examples of positive primers include having students think about how ready they are to learn, doing a quick drawing activity, playing a short guessing game, or doing a brief word activity related to the lesson topic. The goal is to create a positive learning environment through a short 2-3 minute activity at the start of class.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    290 views2 pages

    Primers

    Uploaded by

    api-643371905
    The positive primer is intended to set students' mindsets to learning in a positive way at the beginning of a lesson. It provides an opportunity for students to feel a sense of success through an activity that makes them smile or primes their brain for learning. Examples of positive primers include having students think about how ready they are to learn, doing a quick drawing activity, playing a short guessing game, or doing a brief word activity related to the lesson topic. The goal is to create a positive learning environment through a short 2-3 minute activity at the start of class.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 2

    Primers

    The purpose of a positive primer is to set the mindset of learning to a positive one.
    The positive primer is effective at the beginning of a lesson and will provide students
    an opportunity to achieve success - whether it makes them smile or primes their
    brain for learning!

    Ideas:
    The Ready to Learn Check In - allows students to think about and set their mind to be Ready to Learn

    A whole class, individual or group activity that is completed within 2-3 minutes and can make people smile

    How to draw (link to topic) - On YouTube

    What do you know & what do you want to know about (use a image of something related to topic to

    promote critical and creative thinking

    See. Think. Wonder (Use an image to guide thinking - I see 6 legs, I think these are extinct, I wonder

    if a Jelly fish has a heart)

    Word Wall Check Ins - where are you at? (catagorise with levels of understanding)

    Confidence Grids (see appendix 1)

    Activity from Positive Primer Booklet from BSEM Alumni website

    Guess the?? (word, country, material, sound, song, sport)

    Write down everything you know about this topic in 1 minute

    The answer is... (relate to a learning topic and students have to create three questions that have this answer.

    Nine box squares (you can alter the number of squares - students fill out the boxes with words they

    have learnt from their unit and they need to write a short paragraph using all nine words)
    Appendecies:
    Appendix 1:

    You might also like