Learning Activities
Effective learning activities invite students to actively engage with content, think deeply, and learn from one another. This section features practical strategies—such as station rotation, collaborative learning, and essential questions—that support purposeful, student-centered instruction and deepen understanding.
Overarching Essential Questions: Chumash and Navi
Overarching Essential Questions frames big ideas in Chumash and Navi around morality, responsibility, theology, prophecy, and leadership. The deck invites students to wrestle with themes of sin, justice, repentance, and divine-human interaction while examining how law and narrative shape spiritual growth. It equips teachers with broad questions that push learning beyond content, fostering reflection, ethical inquiry, and critical analysis across Tanach.
Quiz, Quiz, Trade
Quiz, Quiz Trade strategy promotes movement, discussion and quick checks for understanding as students implement and trade question cards .
Introducing Station Rotation
Station rotation is a blended learning strategy where students, in small groups, rotate through various learning stations on a fixed schedule. This slide deck is designed to introduce the station rotation strategy to teachers.
Station Rotation Planning Guide
This resource is a planning guide that teachers can use when designing a lesson that will involve station rotation
Key Characteristics
Rotation: Students move between different stations within a single classroom. The rotations occur on a set schedule, with a specific amount of time allotted for each station. This planning template is designed to incorporate blended learning, teacher-led instruction, varied learning modalities, collaborative learning, and independent, individual work. It can also incoporate diffetiated instruction if teachers tailors content and activities to meet diverse needs of learners.
Station Rotation Tips
Master educator, Caitlin Tucker provides very useful teaching tips to bear in mind when planning or conducting a lesson.that incorporates Station Rotation.
Discover moreStation Rotation Examples (by subject)
Excellent examples of station rotation lesson plans, organized by subject
Final Word Protocol
Final Word is a collaborative close-reading strategy that deepens critical thinking by inviting students to build on and respond to one another’s interpretations. This resource shows how close reading can even shift the meaning of a poem and includes a template for students to document their learning and insights from peers.