Gallery walk

Description:
The Gallery Walk strategy showcases various graphic and/or textual displays while learners interact around them in a purposeful way. Just like in an art gallery, this is a quiet activity.  This strategy can easily be combined with other strategies such as the Chalk Talk thinking routine.

How to Use the Strategy:

1. Choose a topic/concept in which a visual display will be produced by small groups.
   
2. Choose a PURPOSEFUL way that students will interact with what is displayed (ie: gather 5 ideas, write something in their journal/sticky note, find 3 things you do not agree with, etc.).  Keep in mind that students should DO SOMETHING with the ideas they are taking away from the displays. 
   
3. Once the small groups have completed their visual display, hang them up around the room. 
   
4. The first time you introduce Gallery Walk, you will need to state the rules: no talking, there is a focus/task to complete while walking, rotate through the gallery clockwise/counterclockwise, set amount of time, etc.
   
5. Explain the PURPOSE for the Gallery Walk by telling students what they need to be doing while they are walking quietly.
   
6. Start the Gallery Walk for the time allotted.
   
7. Culminate the activity in some way (ie: whole class discussion, small group discussion, journal entry, exit slip, writing piece, etc.)
   

Resources
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