This strategy can be used at the beginning of a topic to find out what students know. The table or grid has prompts that students need to change into questions to ask their peers. They do this by circulating around the class and writing information in the spaces. Students need to be encouraged to ask as many different people as they can. Finding out tables are an effective way of accessing students' prior knowledge on a topic. They also provide practice in forming questions. Once completed, the information can be used in another activity to build on prior knowledge.
The benefits of finding out tables:
In this video a year 13 economics class uses finding out tables
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Published on: 18 Dec 2017
