In Learning Cell, students individually develop questions and answers and alternate between answering and asking them.

Adapted from Learning at City’s series of blog posts around creative teaching activities. Check the original post for more details about the activity and examples in practice.

Instructions

• Ask students to individually write questions and answers dealing with the major points raised in a reading or other learning assignment.
• Get students into pairs
• Students alternate between asking and answering each other’s questions/providing feedback to their partner
• If you collect the written questions, you can start the next session with a quiz using the best questions for revision and promote discussion

What the activity achieves:

• Generates thought-provoking questions for students to actively think about taught content
• Benefits of pair work: discussion, receiving and giving feedback, admitting confusion and asking for help