Snowball Discussion

Category: Discussion
Class size: All
Complexity: ?
Materials:

?List of questions/topics

Description: Prepare a list of questions or topics to discuss beforehand. Ask students to work in pairs to answer and/or discuss the questions. Then ask pairs to join with another pair so that they make groups of 4s. Then ask the new groups of 4 students to share what they talked about as pairs and compare their answers/discussion. Then ask the groups of 4 to join another group of 4 so that they make groups of 8s. Then ask the new groups to discuss again. Depending on the size of the class, you may want to continue this to 16 or even 32.

Examples:

Uses:

Review vocabulary words and important concepts
Community building
Elaboration of key words and concepts