The following is a simple exercise I created for my classes. I have named it “15 Objects” because it uses … 15 objects.
My teaching counterpart really liked this exercise. (I’m always proud when I come up with an idea she especially likes.) What I like about it is that it incorporates kinesthetic learning into the classroom, something I struggle to do. As a primarily visual learner myself, I tend to favor visual exercises.
I also like this exercise because it was easy to create, and free! I just used 15 things I found around the house and yard.
You could use anything for this exercise. I used:
- A piece of yarn
- A tissue
- A bottle cap
- A post-it note
- A candy wrapper
- A Popsicle stick
- A paper clip
- A leaf
- A stick
- A rock
- A plastic toothpick
- A cotton ball
- A craft googly eye
- A button
- A coin
I asked students to come up to the room 5 at a time and take one object from the bag I was holding. Then I asked the student to describe the object. Students answered questions like, What color is it? What shape is it? Is it big or small? Hard or soft? Thick or thin?
The kids had fun. 🙂
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