Fun Activity

Last Tuesday and Thursday the students were placed into eight groups and each were assigned one of the eight of the original 13 colonies the chapter covered. Each group had to come up with a song that related their colony, a brochure, a catchy phrase, and an advertisement. The objective of each group was to present their assigned colony to the rest of the class and try to get students to want to live in their colony, as if they were living at that time. Some groups had excellent presentations and were able to answers questions from other students and my cooperating teacher. However, other groups copied their information straight from the book and had no idea what it meant. Those groups got slammed with questions and had poor presentations. It was fun and entertaining watching the groups who spent the time and effort to produce an well though-out presentation. While the other groups were presenting the other students had to write down important information, from the group presenting about their colony, in their student interactive notebook. They still used their notebook but in a learning technique which hasn't been used thus far this school year. I really enjoyed watching and taking part in the "Colony Fair" presentations.