Time
20 minutes
Audience
Children, youth, adults
Description
This review activity uses Learning Chips from Kagan (www.kaganonline.com) to debrief just about any learning exercise. Each chip (similar to a poker chip) has a question on it (e.g., “What did you learn that was new?” or “What questions do you still have?”) Use the chips as a fun way to have participants think about what they learned from different perspectives. They can be used over and over, and participants will still have a unique experience as they get different chips with different situations.
Kagan offers learning chips with different themes, like “Teambuilding,” “Lesson Review,” “Story Discussion,” “Reading Comprehension,” “Interview,” or “Discussion.”
Materials
- Set of Learning Chips for each group of participants (There are 16 chips in a package, and you can purchase one package online for $5 or eight packages for $29.)
Preparation
- Practice the script.
Procedure
Use the following script and instructions (or modify to suit your needs):
- “To review what we’ve talked about today, we are going to use these Learning Chips.”
- “Each table has a set.”
- “Please open up the container, and pass a chip to each person in your group.”
- “Now, go around the group and have each person answer the question on your chip.”
- “If for any reason, you cannot answer the question, you have to trade your chip in and get another one that you can answer.” (After everyone has answered their question, you might want to ask a few participants to share insights with you from the activity.)
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