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Objectives Students will learn about changes that occurred in the New World and Old World as a result of early exploration. Older students only.
Besides strange people and animals, they were exposed to many foods that were unknown in the Old World. In this lesson, you might post an outline map of the continents on a bulletin board. On the bulletin board, draw an arrow from the New World the Americas to the Old World Europe, Asia, Africa and post around it drawings or images from magazines or clip art of products discovered in the New World and taken back to the Old World. You might draw a second arrow on the board -- from the Old World to the New World -- and post appropriate drawings or images around it.
Adapt the Lesson for Younger Students Younger students will not have the ability to research foods that originated in the New and Old World. You might adapt the lesson by sharing some of the food items in the Food Lists section below. Have students collect or draw pictures of those items for the bulletin board display. Students might find many of those and add them to the bulletin board display. Notice that some items appear on both lists -- beans, for example.
There are many varieties of beans, some with New World origins and others with their origins in the Old World. To engage the other students while they are playing, have the rest of the team write the answers to the questions in their journals.
The Hot Seat — For this review game, have one student sit facing the class. Write a vocabulary word on the board behind their seat. You can find downloadable Jeopardy formats on the internet, or create your own.
To begin, create questions and answers worth a specific amount of points. Divide the students into two teams and have each team choose a number.
Their goal is to answer the question that is attached to the number they chose. Pass the Chicken — You will need to purchase a rubber chicken for this fun review game. To begin, have students sit in a circle. Randomly ask one student a review question while the rubber chicken gets passed around the circle. The chicken is then passed to the next person, and so on. If they do, then they may get out of the pot and go back to the circle. Be sure to enlist a few safety rules, the students can tend to get rough with the rubber chicken.
Ping Pong — Divide students into two teams. Divide students into small groups with pads of paper, or stand up at the front and play as a class.
Think of a word and put down one blank space for each letter. A portable take on Scrabble, Bananagrams is a fun way for kids to practice their word-building skills. Using a set of tiles with letters on them, students have to create interconnected words and use up all their tiles. The group that finishes first with correctly spelled words is the winner! You can purchase official Bananagrams tiles online, but you can also find printables to make your own or use Scrabble tiles.
Another classic game, Pictionary, helps students attach meaning to words that might be unfamiliar to them. Divide students into two teams or groups, then give each student a pad of paper or a whiteboard with a marker. Have one student stand at the front of the room and draw a word you show them. While they draw, the team has to guess the word. If they guess correctly, their team gets a point! Inspire a little competition with a classwide spelling bee. Using your list of vocabulary words, give the first person an opportunity to spell the word.
If they need it, give them the definition or use it in a sentence. If the student is correct, they get to stay standing and move on to the next round. The student left standing at the end is the winner. Keep students engaged and active during reading comprehension lessons with a summer-inspired activity.
As students catch the ball, they have to answer the question their fingers land on. As a class or in small groups, divide into two teams. Invite the first student up to the front of the room. Give them a word or phrase they can act out in front of their team without speaking. If the team guesses correctly in the allotted time, they get a point!
These active games are great for getting out extra energy, taking brain breaks or even indoor recess activities. Send intrepid explorers on a mission to find hidden treasures! For an interactive learning experience, create a scavenger hunt that challenges students to find or collect:. Sometimes you just need to dance it out. For a quick brain break, put on some fun music and encourage your students to stand up and dance away — the sillier the better.
When the music pauses, they have to freeze in place. Any student who unfreezes before the music starts again is out! After all, you know best which words your students should be learning. Maybe your students already have vocab lists, and you just have to make sure they still have access to them.
Or maybe they will be reading a novel with challenging vocabulary that you can pull words from. You may even have a list based on word roots. Our Vocabulary Games Issue includes six different games to choose from six for grades and six more for grades Which ones you choose will depend on your class.
Others are more boisterous, such as Word Toss, where students use their basketball skills in addition to their vocabulary knowledge. Some games are for the whole class at once, and some are meant for small groups.
The EB Academics team believes that success is in the details. You can liven up games with classroom decor, add a touch of technology with scoreboards displayed on a screen, and take the time to laminate colorful game pieces. Trust us, students will notice these details and become further invested in play, as your enthusiasm will be contagious.
Make sure that students have access to all the words that will be used in your games, and give them some time in class to review their words before playing. Pass out some popcorn, cheer on your students, and laugh along with them as they play. But in order to feel confident in individual student learning, make sure to include a brief assessment afterward.
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