THE QUOTE ACTIVTIY for Perfect Classroom

Please feel free to steal and adapt this idea!
Le'ts be honest... I got the idea from somewhere else too!
I can't even remember who or where...

I call this THE QUOTE ACTIVITY!
 It starts as an indiviual activity... but then changes into a small group activity and discussion. Ends with sharing out and a whole group discussion! 

PREP: Before students enter the room for the day will post 12-15  quotes around the room. This year they are on SCIENCE. But I have used... thinking, water, oceans, life, ect... character traits would be interesting, or goals... anyway...

Students will be asked to walk all around the room & read the quotes for themselves. They are then to stand next to the one that MOST speaks to them that day. 
When most are at their "spot" I ask them to discuss the quote with anyone else that is at it as well. What does it mean? What does it mean to them? Ect. I tell them that one group member will be responsible for reading the quote aloud to the class and someone will be responsible to summerize and share what was discussed in their small group with the whole group. (Students remain standing around the room in the circle facing inward as the groups share. I have had a reflection or whole group discsussion at their desks after if need or wanted!)

This activity takes 20-30 minutes and the students seem to enjoy it! It promotes discussion and good listening skills... plus quotes are TOUCHY FEELY without me having to be TOUCHY FEELY first. They get to do the thinking! Whop whop!!

Here are the ones I included for my 3rd day in my perfect classroom plans:

Q: Which one do you like the best and why? (Practicing my questioning techinques!) 

                                                   2013 Science Quotes:

1: Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him

    and calls the adventure "Science."  

   ~Edwin Powell Hubble

2. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.    

     ~Adam Smith

3. A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. 

    It is innocent, unless found guilty.  A hypothesis is a novel suggestion

    that no one wants to believe.  It is guilty, until found effective. 

    ~Edward Teller

4. Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. 

    ~Wernher Von Braun

5. The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts

     as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

    ~William Lawrence Bragg

6. Science is simply common sense at its best. 

   ~Thomas Huxley

7. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers,

    he's one who asks the right questions. 

   ~Claude Lévi-Strauss

8. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.        

   ~Albert Einstein

9. Life preys upon life.

   This is biology's most fundamental fact. 

   ~Martin H. Fischer

10. The saddest aspect of life right now is that

     science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. 

    ~Isaac Asimov

11. It is through science that we prove,

     but through intuition that we discover.

    ~Jules H. Poincare

12. We know from science that nothing in the universe exists

      as an isolated or independent entity.

     ~Margaret Wheatley

13. Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

     ~George Bernard Shaw

14. Nature does nothing without a purpose. 

    ~Aristotle