Explorify for Inclusion: Establishing calm and focusing attention
Looking for ideas and strategies to help you create a collaborative learning environment?
Our top tips
1. Play dough gym or sensory resources can help children settle and focus before exploring an Explorify activity.
2. Once children are familiar with the format, using Explorify activities can reduce anxiety as children realise, 'We've done this before!”
3. Presenting activities inside frames help children to focus. One of our experts describes how they developed this technique for Odd One Out activities. Hear their story and read the case study.
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4. Capitalise on the visual appeal of Explorify activities by minimising verbal instructions. One of our experts describes how doing this resulted in a calmer classroom. Hear their story and read the case study.
5. Explorify activities can be shared in a variety of ways:
- An interactive whiteboard helps bring a group together, and children could be invited to control the movement between images in a Zoom In, Zoom Out.
- Activities could be shared on an iPad or printed out to support children who do not like to speak in front of others or have sight issues.
