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Education World Lessons Newsletter --------------------------------------------------- Volume 4, Issue 31 July 31, 2002 ********************************************** Dear Education Professionals, Welcome to the Teacher Lesson Plans Newsletter, published weekly as a free service by Education World(R)! You are receiving this newsletter because you have signed up to receive summaries of lesson plans that have been recently published at Education World. If you enjoy this newsletter, please feel free to forward it to other teachers! If this newsletter has been forwarded to you, you may sign up at http://www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml ********************************************** Education World's newsletter is brought to you by Subway For 37 years, the Subway restaurant has established itself as one of the most successful franchising models in the world. Today, Subway restaurants are located in 73 countries, with nearly 17,000 restaurants operating. In fact, the franchise recently surpassed McDonald's as the largest fast-food chain in the United States and Canada. Key ingredients to the franchise's success are the low investment and the operational simplicity. Subway provides its franchise owners with strong brand recognition and a proven business formula. Fresh, great tasting, made-for-you sandwiches and salads, many of which have 6 grams of fat or less, offer customers a healthful alternative to fatty fast food. This has made Subway a popular destination for health-conscious consumers. http://www.educationworld.com/go/base?id=SUB ********************************************** LESSON PLANS ********************************************** We're back! Starting this week, Education World offers all new original content to help you prepare to go back to school. This week, we offer another in our series of "icebreaker" articles. This volume of getting-to-know-you activities marks the seventh edition we have published since 1977. Check out all the archived volumes and you will find a library of about 100 different icebreaker activities -- all teacher-tested and teacher-contributed! New this week! http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson271.shtml Icebreakers: Volume 7 Education World readers have come through again. This week, we introduce a new volume of teacher-tested icebreaker activities for the first days of school. Included: Fourteen icebreakers submitted by teachers from around the globe. Following are two of the 14 icebreaker activities you will find in this year's Icebreaker edition. (Click on the link above to see all 14 activities!) Cool Introductions This activity was contributed by two teachers -- Carly Sween (Randy Smith Middle School in Fairbanks, Alaska) and Penelope Cook (Chrisman Grade School in Chrisman, Illinois): Have students write three things about themselves. They should not put their names on their papers. Then have each student crush his or her paper into a ball. Now you're ready for a getting-to-know-you "snowball fight." Tell students they cannot begin until you say "go" and that they must stop when you say "freeze." Remind students not to throw "snowballs" at anyone's face. When you say "go," give students 30 seconds to a minute to toss their "snowballs." When you say "freeze," every student should pick up one snowball. Each student should open up the snowball and find the student it belongs to. Students should chat with their partners about the information on the sheets. Then students will be responsible for introducing the students whose snowballs they "caught" to the rest of the class. Shoe Fun This activity was contributed by Jude Connick (John F. Kennedy Middle School in Enfield, Connecticut): This fun first-day activity teaches the importance of using vivid details, adjectives, and precise language in writing. Have each student take off one shoe and put the shoe on his or her desk. Then have the students write paragraphs in which they describe their shoes in detail. Collect the students' descriptions. Later in the day, have students take off their shoes and deposit them in the center of the room. Hand a description to each student. (Make sure students do not get their own descriptions.) Students read the description and try to find the shoe that best matches each description. Is the description well written? Does it help a classmate find the correct shoe, or does it need to be revised? Extension activities: * Students can create pictures to go with the paragraphs they wrote. * Provide each student with the description written by one of their peers. They should draw the shoe described in the paragraph before they see the shoes. How closely do the pictures match the actual shoe? Find 12 more brand new, teacher-tested icebreakers in this week's LESSON PLANNING story by clicking on the link above! ********************************************** Sincerely, Lisa Gryskiewicz =================================== Education World (R) http://www.educationworld.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================== ******************************************* For digest instead of individual postings, send the message: set k12newsletters digest to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, click and send (no body or subject: required) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] K12 Newsletters mailing list is a service of Classroom Connect - http://www.classroom.com Archives for K12 Newsletters can be found at: http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=K12NEWSLETTERS **********************************************************
