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Creative activities spur exam studies
Nov 19, 2003 8:00 AM
By Stefan Eady - Faculty
Middle School teachers put their creative juices to work to help students prepare for exams this trimester. After exams each day, teachers set up experiments, narratives, games, presentations, creative writing assignments, interviews, and more to make studying for students’ next exam memorable and fun.
Here are some examples:
James Hutchins had students testing milk for glucose.
Angela Pieroni gave a special lesson on the half-life of candium.
Shana Pardue had students do Spanish narratives about what they did as children, posting photos of them as babies, and having everyone guess who is who; students also drew cartoons with Spanish captions describing a daily activity.
Rusty Jordan’s Latin students played games that Roman children played and drew cartoons based on cartoons in their Latin book.
Ken Wempe led a “mystery” activity based on The Musgrave Ritual.
Mitch Jordan had students give oral presentations of their research projects.
Students in Joey Rice’s class wrote a paper on the Mercantile Laws from the point of view of the King of England or a colonist and then they debated their position.
Jason Turner built a pharaoh and a Hindu priest with students helping them identify character traits, clothes, religion, personality, etc.
Nancy Ivester’s class drew names and interviewed each other. They made Venn Diagrams showing how they are alike and how they are different. And, they did collages and gave a speech introducing each other.
Here are some examples:
James Hutchins had students testing milk for glucose.
Angela Pieroni gave a special lesson on the half-life of candium.
Shana Pardue had students do Spanish narratives about what they did as children, posting photos of them as babies, and having everyone guess who is who; students also drew cartoons with Spanish captions describing a daily activity.
Rusty Jordan’s Latin students played games that Roman children played and drew cartoons based on cartoons in their Latin book.
Ken Wempe led a “mystery” activity based on The Musgrave Ritual.
Mitch Jordan had students give oral presentations of their research projects.
Students in Joey Rice’s class wrote a paper on the Mercantile Laws from the point of view of the King of England or a colonist and then they debated their position.
Jason Turner built a pharaoh and a Hindu priest with students helping them identify character traits, clothes, religion, personality, etc.
Nancy Ivester’s class drew names and interviewed each other. They made Venn Diagrams showing how they are alike and how they are different. And, they did collages and gave a speech introducing each other.
