Give One, Get One

Give One, Get One Checklist

1. TOPIC TIME: Give students a topic or question to think about independently. 

2. WRITE IT DOWN: Allow a few minutes for students to write down as many ideas as they can.  Remind them not to worry about being perfect—just get their ideas on paper.

3. MARK YOUR SPOT: When time is up, tell students to draw a line under the last idea.

4. PARTNER UP: Have students take their list and start sharing it with their classmates. Tell students to find as many students as possible during the allotted time. Consider using “hand up, pair up” to find a partner and giving a qualifier(the person with the longest hair shares first, for example).  Each time the students meet someone new, they should share their ideas. 

5. TAKE NOTES: After partners share ideas, students write down one idea from their partner below the line. Optional: include the partner’s name next to the idea.

6. KEEP GOING: Students find a new partner and repeat the process and keep collecting ideas until the time is up.

7. WRAP IT UP: At the end, talk about what new ideas were collected from others.  

• Have students write down as many words as they can in the classroom that start with a certain letter (primary) or that are related to a topic(intermediate and secondary).  Example: ABC’s of ancient Mesopotamia 

• Give students a number and have them write down all of the ways that a number can be represented. 

• Provide students with a topic and have them independently brainstorm connections that they have to the topic.  

• Have partners brainstorm together and then make a group of 4 when sharing.

• Create an idea bank for students to draw from. 

• Provide students with sentence frames.

• To increase rigor, have students create leveled questions (Costa’s levels 1-3) that classmates can answer for this activity.