Poster+Carousel

Each group of students (4 or 5) is given a piece of written information about an aspectof a topic (e.g. some facts about the adaptation of seabirds). Each group has 15-20 minutes to make a visual presentation (drawings and words) based only on the piece of writing they have been given. Two students stay with each group’s poster, while the others go to another group’s site. The students who stay with the poster give their ‘visitors’ an oral presentation usingthe poster they have made as a visual aid. The visitors should be encouraged to askquestions of the speakers. After an allotted time the ‘visitors’ move to another group’s site and the process is repeated. The session is finished when all sites have been visited. The students who remain with the poster to deliver the talk stay in place and thus become better at their presentation each time. As a reflective activity, students can be asked to record new knowledge they have gained. The students who gave the talks can record what went well and what could be done better next time.