168 Zero-Planning Plenaries To Take the Pain Out of Lesson Preparation
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🎯 Help learners review and revisit the lesson content.
🎯 Reflective questions and tasks for primary and secondary.
🎯 No planning required – just jump in and choose a plenary.
🎯 Possibly the simplest method ever invented for adding effective, meaningful plenaries into your lessons.
🎯 Scroll through and pick out plenaries you like, or select at random using the specially designed contents page.
Plenaries can easily get forgotten or overlooked.
Particularly when timings overrun or the lesson doesn’t go as planned.
And there’s always the challenge of planning the plenary when we’ve already spent time developing the rest of the lesson.
Plenaries on a Plate removes these difficulties.
And that was my goal when I first created it.
168 No-Plan Plenaries To Instantly Bring Reflection Into Your Lessons
Inside the resource, you’ll find 168 slides/pages, each containing a different plenary.
I’ve designed these so they can be used in any lesson.
All the plenaries refer to the learning that has been done, and ask learners to do something with it.
Revise, revisit, reflect, or something similar.
On the contents page, you’ll find 168 buttons.
Simply click a button and get a plenary.
If you don’t like it, or if you feel it won’t work in this particular lesson, jump back to the contents page and go again.
Simple!
No planning required 😁
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.
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What’s Inside?
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the plenaries waiting for you inside Plenaries on a Plate:
- ✅ What three things have you learned today?
- ✅ How has today’s lesson altered your knowledge or understanding?
- ✅ How might you alter today’s lesson for future learners?
- ✅ In what ways has your mind been changed by today’s lesson?
- ✅ How did you feel at the beginning, middle, and end of the lesson?
- ✅ Create a short television advert ‘selling’ today’s learning
- ✅ Explain what we have learned today without using words
- ✅ Write a message to an alien explaining what you have learned today
- ✅ Construct a timeline showing your learning through the lesson
- ✅ What difficulties have you encountered today? How did you deal with them?
- ✅ Pick one thing you have done today and identify how you could do it better
- ✅ How does today’s lesson connect to your existing knowledge?
- ✅ How would you describe your learning today?
- ✅ What image could you draw to show your learning today?
- ✅ Plan your own lesson covering what we have studied
Using Plenaries on a Plate in Your Planning
Plenaries on a Plate is non-directive and curriculum agnostic.
You can use the resurce any way you like.
Here are three ideas to get you started.
✅ Towards the end of your lesson, open up the resource and display the contents page on the board.
Invite a learner to select a plenary using the buttons.
This then becomes the close out activity for your lesson.
✅ Identify a dozen or so plenaries that particularly appeal to you and make a note of their page/slide numbers.
Towards the end of a lesson, bring up the contents page and select one of the numbers you wrote down.
That then becomes your plenary.
✅ Divide the class into groups.
Invite each group to choose a different plenary by selecting a button on the contents page.
Groups then complete their plenaries before sharing their work with the rest of the class.
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