Partners A and B

Divide students into pairs. Partner A talks for one minute about everything he/she remembers or that occured to him/her on the topic. Then Partner B talks, but cannot repeat anything that Partner A said.

Good for processing/summarizing after lectures and discussions, when it's less about specific facts and more about general ideas. Also good for on-the-fly, in the middle of a lecture, say.

Concrete spelling

Ask students to write a term in a pictoral way, which reflects the meaning of the word (See Wormeli, Summarization in Any Subject, for examples)

Share one-get one

Students get or draw a nine-by-nine grid. In the top three squares, they put three facts or ideas from the lecture, reading, or other material. They then walk around and compare notes with other students. They fill in the blank squares, copying from other students--no student may contribute more than one idea to a given student, and no student may repeat any ideas in his/her squares.

Tic-Tac-Toe

Students have nine terms on index cards, arrange them in a three-by-three grid, must make sentences of the three terms in each row and column. See Rutherford.

This is a good exercise. It works well, and gets the students really thinking.

Could be used effectively with flash cards, as a way to process and cement learning, once they've memorized

Inside-Outside Circle

See Kagan for details

Flashcard Game

Courtesy of Spencer Kagan

Numbered Heads Together

I've used this when playing review Jeapardy. It has been especially effective when I used whiteboards, so that all teams can answer at the same time.