Social Studies: Stepping Stones

Social Studies Stepping Stones

                    By Jean

    I am choosing to share this story with you so you guys will know what this activity is like when you start.  My favorite activity was the fourth activity because everyone got so excited and I learned new things.

In social studies we started bluffs.  Bluffs is when you have a table pod of four or five and every one has to do a bunch of activities in front of the class.  

The first we did an activity that is kind of like charades, we have to go up in front of the class and act out something like playing volleyball but you can not talk or have a persone do it with you during the activity.  I acted out playing volley ball.

The second activity was the secret words.  In this activity our teacher gave us a word and we had to put it in a story and try to make it long so no one could guess the word because the longer the story is the harder it is for people to guess the word.  For each pod you trick you get ten points and for each pod that does get the answer right gets five points.  My word was bread.

The third activity was the bluffs.  In this activity our table pod went out in the hall and we each had to pick a card and one card would have the real meaning of the card and all the rest had to make up a fake meaning of the word and the other table pods would try to guess the person with the secret word.  For each person we tricked we get ten points for our pod but the people who ges right gets five points for their pod.  I was the one that picked the card with the true meaning of the word.

The fourth/last activity was to teach the class how to make something.  It had to be at least one through three minutes long.  After the speeches people decided if we had an intro, theses, steps, and a conclusion.  If we had all that then we got full points.  I taught people how to make a fortune teller.

What activity do you think you would like?