2nd Grade
Creative Writing Prompt:
Given an emotion, act out that emotion and have the audience guess who. Once the emotion is determined, each student can write story about the situation causing that emotion. OR Act out an emotion and then have the class verbalize a story cooperatively.
Social Studies unit on Ghana:
Learning about wild life in Ghana - Play Freeze to act out different animals from Ghana. OR Welcome to the Party describing different wild life of Ghana.
Math:
Act out word problems, given a setting and a topic. Solve the problems mentally or through the Act It Out strategy.
4th & 5th Grade
- Freeze – brainstorming ideas for realistic fiction (writing),
- World's Worst – morning meeting, social skills
- Taxi Driver – The Great Fire, tour of Chicago
- Welcome to the Party – get to know people from history or characters in novels
- Dinner Party - get to know people from history or characters in novels
We also came up with some others:
- Clue – character, setting, prop for conflict or plot of a story
- All the ways to describe a word – for example, the word little. Means small, opposite of bit, adjective, 6 letters, etc. Would work well to review vocabulary or spelling words
- Show don't tell – have students use tangrams to build an image that explains a lesson or concept
- Visualization
- What-if scenarios
- Vocabulary games – Pictionary, charades
Finally, we're going to use some of the ideas we heard from other teams, for example, Be the Comma (grammar), The Empty Chair (character's perspective).
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