Teach an idea
Predict first
Predict first opens a lesson with a puzzle the lesson will answer, and pupils vote on an answer before they are taught, so they want to know and the teaching sticks.
The real slide Chalk makes, in the Classroom look. Every word is written for your lesson when you use it.
How to run it
- Show the puzzle and the answers; everyone votes.
- Keep the votes, and do not give the answer yet.
- Come back to it at the end with back to your prediction.
Why it works
Trying to answer before being taught, even wrongly, makes the later teaching better remembered than teaching alone.
In other subjects
History: who do you think won, and why?Maths: which is bigger, before we work it out?
Use in Slides
Chalk plans a deck with this task in it, written for your lesson.
Read about the idea behind it