The marketplace is an excellent concept where everyone researches a topic and ‘sells’ it to the next group. However, in our experience, learners only remember the topics they have researched and taught themselves. Bearing this in mind, and acknowledging the premise that one remembers 90% of what they teach, we thought it would be beneficial to make a slight adjustment.
Similar to the traditional marketplace, only one small group takes a specific topic. They research it, produce factual information, create quizzes, and include interesting events from the time, as well as who was in power politically and anything else that could have been influential. Another group then visits the information station, where they are ‘taught’ by the original group. Following this, they take over the information station and teach the next group. This ensures that the topic is taught, and hopefully learned, by all.
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