Goals:

1. As a class, the students will vote on their favorite activity they engaged in during the last four weeks and do the activity once again.

Time:

one to two hours

Resources/Materials:

This will vary as to what activity the students choose.

Procedure:

1. As a class, the students will talk about the activities that they engaged in for the last four weeks.

2. The students will talk about what they liked the most and/or the least about these activities and why.

3. Then as a class, they will vote on three activities that were done in the classroom that they liked the most.

4. Finally, the students will vote out of these three activities, the one that they liked the best.

5. The teacher will quickly set up the activity that the class enjoyed the most; and they will do it again. Assessment: Each student will provide a written response answering the following question: Did you have fun with this activity the second time? Explain why or why not. The criteria for success is to participate in the activity and turn in the written response.

Curricular Strands:

This will depend upon the activity

Possible Extensions:

The students could choose their least favorite activity to do again, but change the activity from what they did not like into a better activity. The students could also alter their favorite activity into one they might enjoy more.

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