ZIPLOC BAG OF PROPS
How many ways could you use the stuff in the bag?
- Assign a role to each of the objects to identify minority groups/social classes in Canada.
- Fill the bag with objects and then ask them how to solve the problem with the objects in the bag (innovation)
- Fill bag with historical objects (iron, wood, etc.) –> group the objects to represent different groups of people/employment during a particular age
- One object –> students give their perspective
- Antique objects –> guess their use, or tell a story where they object has been, perhaps students write a riddle about an object?
- Props to represent objects in particular lesson –> Russian WW2 — No Ammo
- 1st day ice breaker –> what represents them from the bag?
- Build a diorama/sculpture with the objects
Block off ¾ of the photo, have the students describe what they see (This allows students to make predictions about the photo )
How else could you use this activity?
- Show a piece have them draw the rest
- What is NOT in the photo –> make predictions, inferring
- use like a Puzzle (maps, propaganda posters etc)
- Propaganda, etc. –> Tops and Tails (students get half a photo, have to find its match)
- Video clip – show only the top or bottom of the clip (block of the tv with construction paper)
- Timelines –> chunking it up
- Chunking up a speech/conversation/interview
- Poems -> chunking it up
- Use their textbook, block out all the text around the photos (forces students to make predictions, use of non-textual cues)
- Use this as a means to test students – what is going on in the photo? Why is it relevant to what we’ve learned in class?