[LM_NET] End of Year Activities

[Sharon Gullett <sgullett@ESC7.NET>]

While reading the latest edition of the MarcoGrams that focused on Sports
and Games in the Classroom
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/marcograms/June2006.html I came across
these lesson plans. What a fun way to extend library skills at the end of
the year! It would be easdy to incorporate the use of technology and the
Internet as well.

 

"Street Games" (K-2) 
ARTSEDGE, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/mg/lesson717.aspx
Students explore street games of Harlem by learning about and playing
established games, such as stickball, kick the can and tag, as well as hand
games, chant-and-response activities and rope skipping. Then they work in
teams to research a selected street game, compare street games using Venn
diagrams and create a new street game.

 

"Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games" (3-5) 
ReadWriteThink, International Reading Association and the National Council
of Teachers of English
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/mg/lesson728.aspx
Students work in small groups to create board games that review elements
from novels they have read. Then they play each other's games and evaluate
them. Students are then given an opportunity to revise their games and their
directions, per their classmates' feedback and suggestions.

 

"Play Ball! Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Baseball Questions" (6-8) 
ReadWriteThink, International Reading Association and the National Council
of Teachers of English
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/mg/lesson726.aspx
Students listen to a read-aloud of David A. Adler's Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest
Man and visit Web sites containing baseball facts. Then they write trivia
questions to include in a Jeopardy PowerPoint game that they play in class.

 

 


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