What would Action Stations look like in Senior Classrooms?

Although the first publication of action stations is aimed at new entrant classrooms, the pedagogy and philosophy is one that could easily be implemented at any level.

To paint a picture for a more senior class - the stations may be set up the same but different contexts such as;

Design and Innovate 
- Follow a brief to research, design and create a toy for a preschool child, animal in the zoo, native bird in captivity
- Design, create and make a wearable arts costume, promote an event to showcase your designs with your own label
- Investigate 'worry dolls' history and meaning and design your own to give to a small child.

Cultural 
- Learn a new language by networking with another schools overseas
- Design and make an advertisement to promote your culture in NZ
- Make a traditional costume from your country using newspaper as a teaching model.




Sport Science
- Use educreations to explain a strategic defence or offence skill
- Design a sports game that will develop the skill of ball handling in netball
- Create a lesson plan to teach a year 1 student in skipping

Performing Arts 
- Plan, and create a TV advertisement for our school
- Choreograph a dance that reflects who you are
- Mash-Up and Remix a song to send a message to our Principal, community, global

Cafe 
- Design conversation activities for the class cafe
- Table setting - how is it done in different countries research and create
- Make a hot drink to perfection and meet friends at the cafe

Solar Powered Oven

Science Lab
- Research instructions to make a smors solar powered oven
- Explain how planes fly
- Explain how our respiratory system works
- Add your wonderings about our world on the class wonder wall for others, or yourself to research
- do an activity from Sciencebob

Computing

-Learn how to do coding
- Critique two similar apps to promote them best one for teaching and learning ie educreations and explain everything
-Get involved in quadblogging
- Create a learning activity that creates awareness of digital citizenship

Visual Arts
- Explore two different artist models and combine their most distinctive features
- Use one art piece and recreate in three different media types. Discuss the challenges you had
- Make a purposeful garden sculpture using found objects

In all cases you must allow students to share work in progress not just completed tasks. This is to develop skills in the process of learning and to scaffold the journey to higher levels of thinking and production each time.

The questioning will be similar but using more higher order thinking

What an exciting environment you would be creating. The concept of self regulated learning on steroids. The ultimate way to learn from each others ideas and passions and strengths or to develop new ideas from each other in a respectful way.


Would love your ideas and feedback. This is all new territory.