How To Plan A Lesson To Remember

Schoolwork naturally coincides with traditional teaching styles and textbook work. Even so, it is important to make learning exciting for students with interactive activities. Incorporating fun classroom games into your lesson plan offers a simple way to motivate your students and encourage them to draw on their creativity and imagination. 

The summer holidays may already be here, but we all know how quickly time flies by. Whether you are someone who teaches from home, or works within a school, planning a lesson to remember with your children or pupils is one way to make sure they retain the information you pass onto them, while making sure they stay engaged throughout. We have listed some of the best ways to engaged with kids in order to make the lesson fun for not just them, but also for you.

Read on to find out about some of the great ways you can engage with your students, while helping them learn and have some fun along the way. You won’t be disappointed!

Get Creative 

Say hello to your inner child! Story telling is the key to capturing any child’s attention span. Teaching a history lesson? Make it an interactive story, tale, or adventure! Perhaps geography is your speciality, why not have the class play an interactive memory game, such as capital cities or specific locations. (Incentives are also a good tool for engagement!).

Other areas you can try and emulate this imaginative approach within could be language classes, showing the children the culture behind the learning, ensuring they know why they are learning a certain language. 

Other creative ways to engage the kids can include puzzles, creative group games can encourage students to work together and visualize academic concepts in an abstract way, Bingo, a quick and simple game which never fails to motivate students in their learning, or even the classic Hangman, allowing your students to think quickly, stay on the ball and maybe even expand their vocabulary along the way.

Think Bigger!

We all remember our teachers in school bringing the polystyrene solar system into our science classroom, attempting to catch our attention with something different. Needless to say, this did work to some extent, but nowadays kids need something far more exciting! Why not try giant inflatable planets, taking the kids out onto the sports field and getting them to make a to-scale circle to show just how vast the universe is. Companies such as Megaflatables provide such props, so why not get in touch, and give them a try!

Don’t Hold Back

If you want to help your kids learn as quickly as possible, incorporating a fun, game0based aspect may well be the way forward.

One of the key takeaways when attempting to create a lesson to remember is to have fun when you are planning it. If you are demonstrating that you are having a good time with a responsive sense of humour, it will make the task in hand much easier.