Each student will write a short description of activity on an index card. Teacher will collect and shuffle cards. Volunteer will select and act out description. Class must name activity. Using a word bank students work in pairs to create a floor plan of the school complete with rooms and large areas labeled.
Students create a graph to determine the two or three favorite activities of the grade level.
Students work individually or in pairs to create an original design or mascot with captions related to the preferred school activities. Display the designs in a common school area and have the school vote on the best design. Assigned students read and record daily temperatures in degrees Celsius during a certain month of the year. After learning a simplified formula for converting degrees Celsius into Fahrenheit and vice versa - students predict the number for degrees Fahrenheit before actual reading off classroom thermometer. At the end of the month students convert temperature data into a graph and calculate the average daily temperature for the month.