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You each have a card to write on. In each corner of the room, there is a sheet of paper with the title of one of the four types of students listed above. Which of the types of students do you have or think you have in your classroom? List students’ names and characteristics on your card. Then, go to the corner that represents the type of student you identified. Discuss with others in your corner. Report out to the rest of the group.

 Standards based skills: analyze, evaluate, formulate opinions, support ideas with evidence

 Classroom activities for a Four Corners activity:1. To draw on background knowledge and to find out what students already know about key concepts they will be studying, choose four concepts or photos representing the concepts and divide students into four groups. Each group could meet to record what they know about the concept and then report back to the class.2. When studying a debatable topic, choose four possible responses to the debate (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly agree). Have students go to the corner that represents their opinion, talk together, and then present their argument to the class.