How can we elevate motivation and excitement in our lessons?
This year
I decided to turn my classes into Harry Potter classes.
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| Harry Potter text and A Gryffindor Banner workpage written and designed by Victoria Barachman |
We first
watched the film, to make sure all students know the film and the storyline.
I
made sure to watch the film in English, and to use only English subtitles.
Me in a Gryffindor Outfit
Here are
some of the things I created for my classes:
For our first day, I prepared a contract with our
4 ground rules, I printed it out on Hogwarts pieces of paper and students
needed to sign the contract. Those who signed it, got a train ticket, to
Hogwarts.
Platform
9 3/4 train tickets:
Hogwarts
certificate of excellence and some harry Potter costumes:
I divided the class into the four houses:
Gryffindor; Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Ravenclaw so I can
allocate group points during lessons:
The winning group gets the "Golden
Snitch":
This is what it looks like at the end of
the lesson:
These are the
power ups I prepared:
Potion
gets you 3 points, Dobby gets you 4 points, Hagrid gives you 5 points, The sorting
hat gives you 5 points and Hedwig gives you 5 points as well.
The
only thing that can take points off is Lord Voldemort, however, I never use it!
It's only to keep things interesting.
I prepared scratch cards with prizes inside
like potions or stickers:
Here
are some Harry Potter potions I prepared:
Some
of the prizes can be Harry Potter stickers:
Or Harry Potter candy: (Some of the
flavors are: vomit, ear wax, soap and grass):
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| Getting HP Candy |
This
is a homework page I like to hang in class:
For our dictations, I prepared Hogwarts
dictation pages:
These are good notes to take home:
For outdoor learning, differentiated learning and
to increase student autonomy, I prepared stations, in each station, there is a
different task.
The stations are:
The forest
The train station
Diagon
Ally
Borgins and Burkes and
The Hogwarts library.
Students get
to choose "where" they want to study and they pick a task from one
place.
See
the stations in action:
Vocabulary
Games!
I
was inspired by Rania's game: Boom!
and
created two new group games using the
Harry Potter theme.
One
is the game with Popsicle sticks:
Students
take turns choosing a stick. They see the word in English, they need to say the
meaning in Hebrew and they earn the stick. I always say that they can help each
other. When they help each other, students also learn new words, words that are
new to
them.
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| Playing at Hogwarts Library |
The
goal is to have as many sticks as possible by the end of the game.
Power
Ups!
Students
take turns collecting the sticks. If they get a "Harry Potter" stick,
they get another turn! They get a chance at earning two sticks! But if the get
a stick with a picture of Voldemort, then they must return all their sticks to
the sticks holder.
The
winner is the one with the most sticks by the
end of the game!
Variations:
1.Students
must say the word in English three times and everyone must repeat.
2.
Students must write down the word and its meaning in their notebook. This can
be done by the student or by ALL students all the time. (increases engagement).
3.Students
can say a sentence or a collocation using the word in English.
Another
game I created, is almost the same but using
cards.
Students
take turns drawing cards from the pile of cards. The words are in Hebrew,
students need to say the word in English or use any of the variations I
mentioned.
The
objective of the game is to have as many cards as possible.
If
they get a "Harry Potter" card, they get another turn! But if the get
a card with Voldemort, then they must return all their sticks to the sticks
holder. If they get a card with Hermoine, then they get 2 more cards (Similar to Taki x2 card).
Students
loved this game and couldn't stop playing!
I
used this as one of the stations in the rotation Model.
I hope I gave you enough inspiration to try
something similar in your class!
Unfortunately I am unable to share most of the
files because they include graphics that I do not own.
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tags: harry potter, games, efl, gamification
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