Have you ever avoided games, movement, or group work for fear that your classroom would become complete pandemonium? This session provides research-based strategies for intensely engaging students in activities that will keep them focused on the content. You will leave with ideas that can be immediately used in your classroom.

1. Seek and Find
Content Objective: This activity can be used in any content area.
Language Objective: Students will determine the research station where
the answer to a question can be found and thoroughly answer the questions
while working with a partner.
Materials:
• Questions based on your content, typed and cut apart
• Research stations needed to answer the questions and signs for the
station
• Answer sheets (see example)
Procedures:
1. Before class, prepare questions, answer sheets, and research stations
(5-8 depending on the topic). Each station should have at least 3 sets
of the same information. For example, if a station is a website, three
laptops should be set up at that station.
2. Place students in mixed-ability pairs and give each student an answer
sheet.
3. Each pair is given a different question. They must choose the correct
research station to visit and answer the question.
4. They bring their answers to the teacher to be checked before they
are given a new question.
Example
Research Station #1 –Rivers– laptops and a website pulled up about the Nile
River
Research Station #2 – Deserts - laptops and a website pulled up about the
Sahara Desert
Research Station #3 – Plateau – textbooks open to the page about the Plateau of
Tibet
Research Station #4 – Valleys – aerial photographs of The Great Rift Valley
Research Station #5 Gulf– atlases open to the page about The Persian Gulf
Research Station # 6 Sea – photographs of the Dead Sea (with captions)
Research Station #7 Plains – laptops and a website pulled up about the Serengeti
Plains

2. Questions:
1 6
What is the name of the largest Name six countries that the Nile
desert in the world? Where is it River touches or runs through.
located?
7
What is one unique quality of the
2 Dead Sea?
What are two rivers that run
through the Sahara Desert?
8
What can be seen along the Great
3 Rift Valley?
Name at least three animals that
migrate across Africa’s Serengeti
Plain.
9
Describe the photograph of Blyde
River Canyon in South Africa.
4
What is another name for plateau?
10
Describe the satellite photograph
of the Persian Gulf.
5
Describe the picture of the plateau.
11
Where is the Persian Gulf located?

3. Station: ______________________
1.
Station: ______________________
2.
Station: _Plains_____________________
3.The African Jackal, the spotted hyena, and gazelle are three animals
that migrate across the Serengeti Plain.
Station: ______________________
4.
Station: ______________________
5.
Station: ______________________
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Station: ______________________
7.
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Station: ______________________
10.
Station: ______________________
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