![]() ![]() The students loved it and I would definitely play again. We played each list twice, with different letters each time. I gave up on the digital generator and just wrote a letter on the board for each round. However when we began to play in class the generator kept pulling q’s, x’s, j’s, and other such letters that would have been quite a challenge for my students. First I looked for a random letter generator online and thought I had made a good choice. However I wanted all of the categories to be more science-based, so I adapted it and used some of the categories from the original document and added some of my own. I found this version on the TES site for free. You can read a full set of the game play instructions here. For those who have not played Scattergories, a letter die is rolled and the object is to write a word that begins with that letter for each of the twelve categories on the list. ![]() On Friday I played Science Scattergories with one of the classes. Last year I got this task from the Middle School Science Blog, and you can find the link here. In the first three challenges the students were allowed to talk with each other, but no verbal communication was allowed in the last three challenges. There were six different challenges for the groups, with each challenge requiring the students to place the six cups in a different configuration. The strings got tied on the elastic band and the students had to pull on the string so that they could manipulate the elastic to move the plastic cups. Each group of 3 or 4 students was given six cups, an elastic band, and a piece of string for each person. At that point I taught grades 6, 7, and 8 science, and so I made a version for each grade that focused on the topics from the Ontario Science Curriculum. I found a free version of this game a few years ago from The Learned Teacher, and I modified the template for my purposes. One student is challenged with getting his or her team members to guess the word on the card, however there are five “taboo” words that the player cannot use in the clues. In science we played Science Buzz, a form of the game Taboo. ![]() Here is an overview of my opening week activities. As usual, I took a lot of inspiration from the wonderful #MTBoS crew. My focus for the first 2-3 lessons in each class was games, cooperative strategies, and relationship building with my students. It was a short week because of labour day, and I don’t teach science every day. This year I am teaching one grade 6 math class, two grade 7 science classes, and two grade 8 math classes. I incorporated puzzles and thinking challenges, and we had fun. I am fairly certain that I know the names of all of my new students. ![]()
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