Snowball Fight
Wed, 07/18/2012 - 14:38 — jkohm
Strategy Category:
Instructional activities
Grade Level:
Early Childhood/Primary
Intermediate
Middle/Junior High
High School
Content Area:
Agriculture
Business
Computer Science
English
ESL/Bilingual Education
Family and Consumer Sciences
Fine Arts
Foreign Language
Health, Drivers Education and Physical Education
Industrial Technology
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
Special Education
Student Services
Materials or Resources:
Sheet of paper, pencil.
Preparation:
No preparation necessary
Activity Length:
0minutes
Activity or Strategy Description:
Getting to know you. Have students write 3-4 things about themselves on paper. Each student crumples up paper. Divide students on each side of class. Throw the papers back and forth. When you say "stop," each student grabs a "snowball." Students then have to figure out who the person is on their snowball.
This can also work for vocabulary words, as a study/review for Social Studies (I did it for WWII using words like Holocaust, Japanese Internment, Blitzkreig.) Students had to explain what those things were.