I previously wrote about our plans to use three stations to review for the upcoming midterm exams. This is to say that it seemed to work out quite well.
I felt that students were meaningfully engaged in each of the three tasks, and that the flexible room furniture helped quite a bit. The large rolling whiteboards served well as room-dividers, and all three AppleTVs remained connected to loaner-iPads (that I asked to borrow from the Tech department) for a full 8-hours.
Below is a time-lapse of students coming in, reading the directions on one whiteboard, being assigned groups, and doing their station-work. It ends with me rolling the room-dividers aside so we can play a full-class game of Quizlet Live.
The review lesson plan worked very well with my seniors, and moderately well with my freshmen. The freshmen defaulted to two mistakes which I had to correct. First, at the practice test station, they rushed through the test questions and glanced at the feedback, then tried to wait-out the remainder of the 10-minutes doing nothing. I had to assign them specific sections of the study guide to review in Canvas. Second, at the review question station, which corresponds to the paragraph-length free response questions on the midterm, freshmen defaulted to answering the questions on their own; they did not want to talk through each question as a small group. I kept trying to get them to talk through them, but when I would leave the area, they often returned to working on the questions on their own.
In conclusion, I think the station-based review worked well, in part because of the flexible furniture and three projection sites in the room, and in part because of the collaborative, group-based nature of the review work.