- Students take on roles as either a couch potato or an aerobics instructor to pair and discuss academic content.
Steps: 1. Give each student an aerobics instructor or couch potato card. 2. Instruct Couch Potatoes to remain in their seats and Aerobics Instructors to move around the room and choose a Couch Potato. 3. Ask each pair to discuss their response to a prompt for a set amount of time. 4. Instruct students to switch partners to discuss the same or a different prompt. 5. Repeat as necessary. | Differentiation: • Strategically pair students for peer support. • Provide sentence frames. • Post needed vocabulary with pictures. Variations: • Use picture cards that relate to unit of instruction (i.e., quarter notes/quarter rests, explorers/settlers, apple trees/apples, protons/neutrons, positive numbers/negative numbers). • Add more picture cards so that students create groups of three or four. |