Instructions

• Prepare sheets with a statement (use the template)
• Present to students
• Give students a sticker and ask them to put the sticker along the spectrum to reflect on their position at the end of the class.

What the activity achieves:

• Requires each student to come up with own answer
• Helps students to become comfortable to share ideas as a group
• Promotes self-reflection

Alternatives:

• Use as a longer activity during the seminar with students sharing their arguments
• Instead of using a sheet of paper, use the classroom space – ask students to stand on one side of the room if they agree, on other side if disagree and in the middle if somewhere in between.

See a Learning at City blog post about this alternative: Line-up Activity
This activity is also part of a series of teaching activity cards developed by LEaD. Click the card picture to access it and other activities in a printable card format.

Online synchronous version

• Prepare a PowerPoint slide as per the template.
• Ask students to contribute to a slide during a live session.  Typing their name into a box and dragging and dropping it to place it along the spectrum.  Alternatively the responses can by anonymous by replacing the name boxes with generic symbol.
• You can then follow up with a discussion.

Online asychronous version

• Ask students to add their name along a spectrum on a collaborative document as per the template.  You might to ask them to also add a note to explain the reasoning behind their position on the spectrum.