ZIPLOC BAG OF PROPS

How many ways could you use the stuff in the bag? 

• Assign a role to each of the objects to identify minority groups/social classes in Canada.
• Fill the bag with objects and then ask them how to solve the problem with the objects in the bag (innovation)
• Fill bag with historical objects (iron, wood, etc.) –>  group the objects to represent different groups of people/employment during a particular age
• One object –> students give their perspective
• Antique objects –> guess their use, or  tell a story where they object has been, perhaps students write a riddle about an object?
• Props to represent objects in particular lesson –> Russian WW2 — No Ammo
• 1^st day ice breaker –> what represents them from the bag?
• Build a diorama/sculpture with the objects

FOUR CORNERS

Block off ¾ of the photo, have the students describe what they see (This allows students to make predictions about the photo )

How else could you use this activity?

• Show a piece have them draw the rest
• What is NOT in the photo –> make predictions, inferring
• use like a Puzzle (maps, propaganda posters etc)
• Propaganda, etc. –> Tops and Tails (students get half a photo, have to find its match)
• Video clip – show only the top or bottom of the clip (block of the tv with construction paper)
• Timelines –> chunking it up
• Chunking up a speech/conversation/interview
• Poems ->  chunking it up
• Use their textbook, block out all the text around the photos (forces students to make predictions, use of  non-textual cues)
• Use this as a means to test students – what is going on in the photo? Why is it relevant to what we’ve learned in class?