Math Scavenger Hunts | RUNDE’S ROOM


Runde's Room:  Math Scavenger Hunts

One in all my favourite methods to make use of process playing cards within the classroom is to cover them across the classroom, so college students should hunt for the playing cards earlier than they will full every process.  Playing cards are numbered, so college students can full the duties in any order.  It is just a bit technique to get them out of their seats and transferring across the room, and it is a tremendous simple method so as to add somewhat extra enjoyable to the exercise.  It solely takes a few minutes to do – I will cover the playing cards within the morning or throughout a break – when the children aren’t within the room – within the bookshelf, behind cabinet doorways, below a desk prime, on the again of a chair … wherever besides inside desks or books.

This manner of hiding process playing cards led to me creating these Math Scavenger Hunt Job Playing cards.  One in all our faculty objectives is to proceed to combine extra know-how into our actions, so I made these playing cards as extra of a “digital scavenger hunt” – college students will accumulate photos of the objects or numbers they should discover in response to the duty playing cards, reasonably than accumulate the precise object or quantity.  College students can take photos of the objects on any gadget – relying on the variety of gadgets you might have obtainable, you may have college students full this exercise individually, in pairs, or in teams.  I solely have 5 iPads in my room, so we’ll undoubtedly be working in teams.  You may have college students work solely in your classroom to finish the duties (or discover the objects), or they will work in a bigger space of the college when you’ve got entry to 1.  College students ought to hunt by means of books, magazines, classroom partitions and assets, newspapers, wherever and in all places, whereas looking for the totally different objects.

Runde's Room:  Math Scavenger Hunt Task Cards

College students might use the images they accumulate as proof they’ve accomplished the duties.  They might additionally show their image galleries to different teams throughout a “gallery stroll” exercise.  You may additionally take it a step additional and have college students create a fast slideshow of their scavenger finds.  There are numerous potentialities.  Footage may be printed and added to college students journal responses as a reflective bulletin board.

This Scavenger Hunt Job Card Bundle incorporates 4 totally different scavenger hunt assets – Place Worth, Math in Actual Life (an excellent general evaluate of math phrases), Classroom Geometry, and Classroom Measurement (two variations of this useful resource are included – one with metric items and one with customary).  Every useful resource makes an awesome diagnostic exercise firstly of the unit, or a evaluate earlier than a summative process.  They’re additionally a simple low-prep exercise, excellent on your sub tub, or math station assets.

Every useful resource incorporates a Minds-On Job I like to make use of complete group to introduce the exercise, 12 process playing cards, a journal immediate (that is elective – it may be an excellent dialogue query or exercise on the finish of the duty), and a pupil reply web page.

Runde's Room:  Math Scavenger Hunts


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