This is a “cut-ups” exercise where each student group receives a series of sentences that form a process analysis essay about how to catch live crabs. Their task is to determine the order of the essay based on the structure of the sentences and the general structure of a process analysis essay.
Lesson Goal
Students will learn to identify and practice using transitions, to logically organize a paragraph, and to write process analysis essays.
In case all the ideas on this website aren’t enough, I just found a great blog that gives you a steady stream of cool classroom ideas, mostly for elementary school, but I already see a couple I can modify to use in my community college classroom. The author is Mike Perry, and he taught high school math, but many of the games will work with any subject. http://classroomgamesandtech.blogspot.com/
For example, here’s a game called “This or that” that would work well as an ice breaker in any class at the start of the year: http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/Resources/Item/92529/this-or-that-game
There’s been lots of game-related content posted on the CUNY Academic Commons recently, and I thought it might be handy to highlight it here:
Andrew Boyarsky reminds us that every day is game day and in his post about games journalist Tom Chatfield’s TED Talk: “7 Ways Games Reward the Brain.”
Finally, Tony Picciano points us to an article on the Huffington Post about the benefits of families playing videogames together. As a parent and a gamer this seems spot on to me, though I must admit that now that my son’s getting older it can be harder for us to play together because he’s so much better at many games that we are. Live and learn!
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