Hot Seat

This activity is great for helping students with questioning. Students can use this activity to learn how to formulate questions. This activity can be done in two different ways, firstly, the teacher can be in the hot seat and secondly, a student can be in the hot seat. Once someone is put in the hot seat students sit in a circle around them and question them to find things out. Whether it be who that person is or facts about that person. This activity can be used to find out about early civilization settlers or different cultures around the world etc. Through questioning the students recieve facts about the person in the hot seat, building that particular schema. While at first it is best that the teacher take the hot seat, once students can follow routines and have basic knowledge of the subject the activity can be shifted to allow students to take the hot seat. I will use this activity in my future classroom to allow students to ask questions that they might have, much like a KWL chart this activity allows students to explore answers for their questions on a particular subject.