Being an Expert!

This week each child in Room 7 had the chance to become an expert on the topic of "Why was the Nile River so important to the Ancient Egyptians?"



One of the learning activities we did to help this happen was a "Bus-Stop". This involved the class splitting into groups and each group being given a small passage of information about the different uses the river had.



Each group then had 10 minutes to summarise their passage. Each child had to put to use the information literacy skills of skimming, scanning and summarising in order to do this successfully.



At the end of 10 minutes the summaries were then shared using a 'Bus-stop". One child became the bus, and had a 60 second visit to each other group (the 'bus-stop') and shared the group summary. The members of the group who were the 'stops' were encouraged to ask further questions of the 'bus'.



This activity allowed each child to become an expert on a small but important topic, while at the same time gaining a 'big picture' by listening to what they had to say.



Bus-Stopping is a great co-operative activity to use when their is a large, complicated topic that needs summarising in a short space of time.