How do you make lessons interesting?

 How do you make lessons more interesting?

Doing worksheet after worksheet can be tedious and that is what most teachers do, in all subjects.We must find a way to get student more engage and involved ibn their learning.

Science and History got the luxury to take students on trips.Out of classroom learning experiences.is something students remeber when they leave school. Visting Rainbows End to experience Physics G forces and acceleration, visit the Zoo to learn about biodiversity, scuba dive in Goat Island to learn more about marine life or going on a Hikoi to learn about local histories and walk up Mt Wellington .In maths we never go on a trip! No wonder it is boring. We have to find trips to send students on

Science are doing hands one activities . Doing experiments where thing explode and launching rockets is engaging and real world.  In Art students draw and create artwork In usic student play on pianos, quitars and drums. In maths we do worksheets.

Using real life examples-using examples that are relevant to your students life and experiences. This can make them connect them to the lesson to something they know and make it more engaging

Use Multimedia such as videos, audio , 3D models, images 

Science get speakers in who demonstrate Science. Nano girls were just one example. They went to MOTAT  and the Museum where there are interactive demonstrations where student wer show how things work and give it atry themselve

We not just competi using different types of media such as video, images, audio to break up a lesson and keep it visually stimulating with other subjects but also with playstation and TIk Tok , Tv and the internet. 
Some ideas to make lessons more interesting could be

Use interactive elements that requires participation such group work, discussions and even games

Use Humor

Use technology such as interactive whiteboard, online resources and education  apps to make the lesson more dynamic

Having Burger fuel Maths competitions

Doing Mathex in  class and going to the  Mathex  competitions

Using exciting online programs like Education perfect on class

Doing games and board game/ cards Games in class 

Having competition is a great motivators to motivate students

Hands on activities like Rubio cubes, building highest towers and strongest bridges and 

Vary activities between worksheets, online learning, books , hands on activities,  workspace constantly in lessons to avoid boredom

Use Kahoots, Socrative and Quizziz and other learning tools to makel lessons more engaging

Using videos as a teaching tool, but not to much

Avoid taking to much in class.Short explanations and lots of visuals

Use the whiteboards and Blocks/ maniples more in lessons

Use puzzles

Use drones, spheros to solve trigonometry problems

Use Nrich tasks and Which on doesn't fit to create lessons without numbers

DO INVESTIGATIONS for statistic- Walk around and doing counting, surveys and questioaires,  collecting data and present to an audience

Do a project- research -analyse and present

Get the Maths roadshow   to come to school

A variety of lessons/Education Perfect/ hands on/books/ workspace to keep students engaged

Do art-Draw Pi pictures using golden ratios/ create origami and tangrams/ online  tessalation creator/

Using desmos to do art using numbers

 





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