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 an example of practice.

Instructions

• Put students into trios
• Arrange the trios in a circular formation
• Pose a question to the groups and ask that each group to answer the question
• After students have discussed the first question assign each student with a number – 1, 2 and 3
• Request that the 1’s rotate clockwise to the next group, that the 2’s rotate clockwise by two groups and for the 3’s to stay where they are. This will create completely new groups.
• Introduce a more advanced question for the students to then discuss.
• Rotate and pose new questions as many times as preferred

What the activity achieves:

• A quick way to get students to share perspectives
• Encourages idea generation