Ask your students to imagine that they are stranded on a desert island with only their MP3 player for company. The catch is that the MP3 player has had all of its songs erased apart from 10. Your students must note down which 10 songs they would like to remain, and why. Go around the class asking students to explain their choices and encourage other class members to comment on their choices. Do they agree/disagree and why? If you feel that 10 songs is too many reduce the number appropriately.
Tag: music
Desert Island Disks
Tags: music
Musical chairs
Set up enough chairs for each student and on each chair place a question relating to the topic being studied. The question should be numbered. Students need a pen and paper and all start the game on a chair. They answer the question on their chair, noting down the number. The music begins and students move clockwise around the chairs. You remove one chair for each round. Each time the student sits down when the music stops they must answer the question on their chair noting down the number of the question. The aim is to be the person to collect the most answers to questions and the answers must be correct - so the more different chairs they get to sit on the more likely they are to win. When the last student has sat on the last remaining chair, get students to mark their answers and the winner is the person with the highest number correct. Good as a starter to warm students up - or at the end of the lesson as a recap.