Suggested Opening Activities
What are some good opening (get them involved in learning in the 30 seconds) activities?
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Worksheets: • a math problem page • questions to answer right away • riddles to solve • a story to ready, with questions to answer • workbook sheets • pictures to color or names of things to draw with room on sheet to draw them • items to rank in order of priority or preference • items to relate or connect, requiring student to connect the related items • puzzles to solve • Story to read, with “what would you do?” question
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Videos: • clip from movie, with questions to answer afterward, printed on sheets or written on the board • home movie of your family, then play word games with what they saw • educational video with questions, pause for answers, then return to video (following same pattern with the remainder of the video • Trip you have taken, then discuss the place and its history • Travelogue, ask them why it was neat or who has been there • Historical film • Music video • Funny commercials • Old Talk Show Clip
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Materials to Manipulate: • sheet to make a paper airplane, prizes for best one • 3x5 cards to make into building • Popsicle sticks, to arrange in triangles or other shapes • Lego’s with a specific goal of what to build • Paper sacks to create anything • Highway maps to learn how to read, questions to answer from reading the map
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Developing Your Own Your job – develop an opening activity that will catch and hold the attention of your students; then demonstrate this activity: (select a particular age group and subject)
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