Carousel Brainstorming

Carousel Brainstorming is similar to gallery walk. It fosters discussion and brainstorming. It allows for students to move around with a purpose—especially good for the kinesthetic learners. It provides cooperation and collaboration among the students. In addition, it provides opportunity for students to orally present the work and for students to learn from one another.

Take a look at this website and click on the video to see carousel brainstorming in action.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/development/resources/strategies/carousel_brainstorming.shtml

Then take a look at these resources to find out more about carousel brainstorming and see how you can adapt it to fit into your lesson:

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/profdevl/pd2reach.htm

http://www.readingquest.org/strat/carousel.html