Students to Teachers

This week I wanted to have creative lessons that engaged the students. What better way to do that than have the students become the teachers! For the 6th grade I paired them up and gave them a topic that we learned in the poetry unit. They were to reteach it as a review and have an activity for the other students to do. Let me tell you, I learned a lot and now have a lot of ideas to use as activities. These kids are brilliant! Here are pictures of the 6th grade, sorry I don't have all of the kids! 

Mr. Burg and Miss Sickels created a fun activity by asking comprehension questions and playing basketball.

Miss Hagen and Mr. Smith decided to go with a rap song. Yes, they do have pillows under their sweatshirts to give them some "fluff". 

Miss Britten and Miss Mullin created a poster to explain their topic. 

Mr. Wallace and Miss Eblen also went with the poster route. 

 









Miss Pryor and Miss Myers hide their topic throughout the room to have the other students find the topic and create examples.

The 7th grade had a similar assignment but they had to work individually. Again, I got a lot of ideas from them! They created games and worksheets. It was a lot of fun watch them be "teachers". 

Miss Hartsock is having the students come to the board to write definitions before she starts her activity of a crossword puzzle. 

Here is an example of Miss Burg's worksheet for the students to complete. They brainstormed nouns and adjectives then created a poem. Genius!