Sometimes your students need to get up and move around, so I suggest the four corners activity. \u00a0 For this activity, you designate each corner of the room as strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree. \u00a0There is no neutral because you want the students to make a choice that is going to push them. \u00a0 It is also important to talk to students about making the choice that they believe and not where they see their friends going. \u00a0In addition, I also remind students that we need to be respectful of one another’s opinions, ideas, and thoughts.<\/p>\n
The organization of four corners is that everyone starts in the center of the room. \u00a0Then\u00a0you read a statement, and the students then to walk to the corner that they identify the most with. \u00a0An example of a statement that you would read is “all humans have the same rights.” \u00a0\u00a0Once all of the students decide on which corner they want to be a part of, they have 1 minute to discuss why they feel that way as a group. \u00a0At the end of the minute, you will have each corner share their perspective. \u00a0Once all of the corners have shared, \u00a0you have the students respond aloud or on paper whether you think they would change their corner choice. \u00a0After the response\/reflection time, you can have a whole class discussion or you can continue with another statement.<\/p>\n
This activity is a great way to get the students moving, to get an understanding of where they are with the material, and to learn their beliefs. \u00a0Four corners can be used anytime throughout a unit or book study. \u00a0 Sometimes it’s even fun to do this before and after the lesson or unit to see how and if students change their perspectives.<\/p>\n
Please feel free to make any adjustments or changes to this activity to meet the needs of your students.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes your students need to get up and move around, so I suggest the four corners activity. \u00a0 For this activity, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-o1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}