Lesson Starter Activity for Year 7 Geography Class - Trapdoor!

Trapdoor can be used as a bellwork activity (for information on bellwork activities please refer this blog), a starter, a plenary or to deliver new content.

The idea behind the activity is simple. Students are presented with up to 16 different trapdoors. Some of the trapdoors have the correct answers whilst the others are wrong. Can the students avoid falling through the trapdoors?

Below is Trapdoor being used in a Physics lesson

Below is a link to a version of Trapdoor that would be ideal to use as perhaps a starter activity with a new Year 7 Geography class. Students are presented with 16 different places, they need to decide which of the 16 are countries.

Download Trapdoor (Countries) from here