Activities for 7th Grade
Ellis Island Survivor Game
Submitted by: Angela
June 28th, 2010
Categories: 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | History | Language Arts | Reading & Writing
Estimated Time: 20-30 minutes
Description: This is a unit long activity that simulates the inspections that immigrants experienced traveling to and arriving at Ellis Island. The activities take 20-30 minutes for each session. The fun, current twist is that the unit is modeled after the popular T.V. show Survivor.
Collaborative Collage
Submitted by: Karen
June 28th, 2010
Categories: 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 6th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Art | Classroom Management | ESL | Reading & Writing | Science
Estimated Time: 60+ minutes
Description: Each student is give a Post-it® note with a pre-sketched portion of a masterpiece work of art such as Vincent Vangogh's Starry Night. Each Student colors that Post-it note. When all students are finished, the students work together collaboratively to put the Post-its together to create the whole masterpiece-VOILA-The COllaborative Collage.
Answer on The Forehead
Submitted by: Karen
June 28th, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 6th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Classroom Management | ESL
Estimated Time: 0-10 minutes
Description: During ANY subject, a great way to get a brief overall knowledge of how well my students are understanding a concept, I ask a question, have the students write their answers on a sticky note and stick it on their foreheads and I take a look. This can work in a number of ways. I can ask the younger students, what is 2X2 and expect the number 4 to be written quickly on a post-it. I take a brief look and see who knows this. The students are facing me, so the other students are not looking around and intimidated. I also have used different colored notes during lectures and asked, who understands? We then use bright green for I totally understand, bright yellow for slow down, I don't get it, and bright pink for, I don't get it at all.
Create-A-Story
Submitted by: Kate
June 24th, 2010
Categories: 6th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Language Arts
Estimated Time: 40-50 minutes
Description: Students use 3 Post-it® notes to record a character, setting, and plot conflict. Students then choose a character, setting, and plot conflict from the pool created by the class and write a story using those ideas
Poetry Post-its (8th grade)
Submitted by: Elaine
June 22nd, 2010
Categories: 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Art | Reading & Writing
Estimated Time: 20-30 minutes
Description: In order to encourage my students to do their best work AND to promote actively thinking about TONE when writing POETRY, I provide a variety of sizes, colors, shapes, and designs of Post-its for them to write their fiinal drafts on. They can then go directly to the appropriate bulletin board and post their work. These promote ease of sharing and fun of choosing from your array of bright, funny, serious, plain stickies; some students get creative in their use of stanza by using several different notes to create their own color patterns or shapes!!
