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Technique Used: Fan-N-Pick (Students Play A Card Game To Respond To Questions.)

This document describes a technique called "Fan-N-Pick" used in two classroom attempts. In Fan-N-Pick, question cards are dealt like a fan and students take turns picking cards to read questions aloud, have peers answer, and paraphrase responses. The first attempt in a Year 7 class went smoothly after an initial explanation. A discussion found most students understood. The second attempt in a Year 10 class reinforced structure of musical forms. Answer cards were added to help complex topics, and all students could describe forms by the end. Considerations note potential costs but an electronic version could work, and answer cards help if questions are misunderstood.

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Technique Used: Fan-N-Pick (Students Play A Card Game To Respond To Questions.)

This document describes a technique called "Fan-N-Pick" used in two classroom attempts. In Fan-N-Pick, question cards are dealt like a fan and students take turns picking cards to read questions aloud, have peers answer, and paraphrase responses. The first attempt in a Year 7 class went smoothly after an initial explanation. A discussion found most students understood. The second attempt in a Year 10 class reinforced structure of musical forms. Answer cards were added to help complex topics, and all students could describe forms by the end. Considerations note potential costs but an electronic version could work, and answer cards help if questions are misunderstood.

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Technique used:

Fan-N-Pick (Students play a card game to respond to questions.)


Setup: questions are written on cards, one question per card.
1. Each team receives a set of question cards, about 8 cards per team.
2. Student #1 holds question cards in a fan and says, Pick a card
3. Student #2 picks a card, reads the question out load and allows five
seconds of Think Time
4. Student #3 answers the question
5. Student #4 paraphrases the answer that student #3 just gave
6. Group praises or coaches
7. Students switch roles, one person clockwise for each new round
Note: need role cards of:

Fanner
Reader
Answerer
Praiser/Coach

Findings:
Attempt 1: year 7
This was used at the end of a lesson as a 10 min plenary. The explanation took a
couple of minutes (including student qs), with cards already handed out. Initially
a shaky start some pupils were confused, but when the process was quickly
modelled pupils were able to pick this up quickly and successfully. A quick Q&A
class discussion revealed that the keyboards had been taken onboard by the
majority of pupils. The repetition of passing the deck around so pupils answered
for a second time and read the question for a second time consolidated this.
Attempt 2: Year 10
This was used for remembering the structure of Sonata Form and Symphonic
Movements. Knowing this was complex for the group, answer cards were also
prepared. Groups were asked to do the exercise without these for the first two
minutes (about one round) and then to match them after this. A Q&A at the end
of the lesson revealed that the 13 students in the class could all describe the
main sonata sections and movement sections by the end of 15 minutes.

Considerations
Could get pricey photocopying budget so an E-version may be possible?
Helpful to have backup cards with answers so students can match these to the
question cards in the event of having mis-understood/missed lessons etc.

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