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 references.

Instructions

• Provide each student with a basic task i.e. identifying some issues to resolve, undertaking some research on a topic, you could provide them with resources, i.e. essays, journals or suggest they use their own mobile device.
• Place students into pairs to compare and combine the information they have sourced
• Place the pairs into larger groups that will again share the information and develop it further

 What the activity achieves:

• Quick and easy to set up
• Challenges and promotes debate
• Encourages evaluation and synthesis of information
• Useful for observing patterns and relationships within topics helping to narrow down a topic
• Develops decision making skills

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.