120 Starter Activities to Make Your Lesson Planning Quicker, Simpler and More Enjoyable
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🎯 Starter activities you can use in primary and secondary classrooms.
🎯 Speed up your planning with activities that are easy to adapt for use across the curriculum.
🎯 Engage learners from the moment the lesson starts and help them experience success before you increase the level of challenge.
🎯 Create variety, widen your repertoire and motivate your learners.
🎯 Develop your own bank of starter activities that work best for you and your class.
Back when I was training to teach, I wanted to speed up my planning and help out the people on my course.
So I created the first version of The Starter Generator.
That had fifty starter activities in it, suitable for use across the Key Stages and the curriculum.
This grew into the version you can download today, which has 120 activities, and has been used by teachers all over the world.
Streamline Your Planning and Engage Your Learners
Simply open up The Starter Generator, pick out an activity you like the look of, and tweak it for the lesson you are teaching.
There’s enough variety in the resource to keep you going for a very long time.
And variety means novelty, which means increased motivation.
If you can get learners motivated and engaged at the very start, you’re already halfway to having a great lesson. Whoever you’re teaching.
The resource is FREE to download and FREE to use.
It is published by Gershon Learning Limited under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Creative Commons license.
That means you can download it, freely share it and redistribute it with attribution and a link to this site, but you cannot use it for commercial purposes or create any derivatives of it.
Download The Starter Generator Today
Here’s the PDF version for you to download FREE:
What’s Inside?
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the activities waiting for you inside The Starter Generator:
- 🎯 List-O-Mania
- 🎯 Show me the answer!
- 🎯 Definition Match
- 🎯 Name that tune!
- 🎯 Describe and Draw
- 🎯 Tell me three things …
- 🎯 What do you know?
- 🎯 Just a Minute
- 🎯 Continuum
- 🎯 Pictures in Time
- 🎯 Strongest Argument
- 🎯 What’s your reply?
- 🎯 Silent Instructions
- 🎯 Create-a-Title
- 🎯 Multi-Tracking
Using the Starter Generator in Your Planning
The resource is non-directive and curriculum agnostic.
You can use the starters inside any way you like.
Here are three ideas to get you started.
✅ Review existing lesson plans and substitute in new starter activities where appropriate.
This can help add variety to your lessons, as well as letting you achieve specific aims, based on the starters you choose.
✅ Share the resource with a group of learners. Give them a lesson topic you will soon be doing with them.
Ask them to look through The Starter Generator and to pick out a starter they like the sound of.
Their goal is to plan a starter activity that they can deliver to their peers at the beginning of the upcoming lesson.
✅ Look through the resource and create a list of twenty starters you like the sound of, have never used before, or want to use again.
Your goal is to cross off every item on your list.
How do you get to cross off an item? By using that starter in one of your lessons.
P.S. You can access all my resources in one place on the free resources hub page.
