So, I stole a magnifying glass from one of Lucasmh's powerpoints (thanks Lucas for always inspiring me) and I ran away with it to make this detective game, after my teacher asked me for an activity surrounding Unit 5: Food chain, for 6th graders.
You'll see once you open the powerpoint, it's very easy to operate.
You have a pinboard, with post its, photos etc.
Click once for the first hint to drop. Then ask your class if they know what animal it is. If you only have a few hands up, and your students ask for one more hint, click again for the second image to appear. Repeat the process until one student can give you the correct answer or all students reach a conscensus (however you want to play it). Then you click until all hints are there (and the magnifying glass disappears) and on to the next slide where the animal will be revealed.
The hints can be pawprints, habitat, food or other/miscelleanous items. There are 15 animals total and 3 levels, but you could also make more slides if you wanted more animals. I left the rough templates at the end of the powerpoint, but you could also duplicate the already made slides and replace the images.
I also put bugs on the pinboards... Just for fun... Feel free to delete them if you don't want them hahaha.
sorry, I edited the game: I added transitions, put the cougar silhouette back in white for the Level 3 slide, and changed the font for the 9 so it looks less like a g.
love it. I will use this with my classes. Just a quick question, maybe I'm being slow, but what does the 'g' hint mean for the sea turle. I understand 'l' is the last letter for eagle, 'r' is the second letter for 'frog', but I couldn't figure out what the 'g' hint meant.
Oh sorry it's not a g, it's a 9 for, it has 9 letters.
Excellent use of transition and animation.
Fantastic. Thank you.
I love this! I used this even with my elementary special needs students and they had fun! It was sometimes difficult, but they got a lot of them, thank you very much!
Great, I'm glad to know it works! I have yet to try it myself haha, but hopefully next week! Thanks for the feedback! I'm also glad it was tried with special needs! I wanted to add the tag but ALTopedia was saying it's too many tags XD
This is really good. please i have a question. for level 2, what are the names of the penultimate and last pictures you used? is it eabbit and racoon?
Rabbit and pig XD. I only used animals found in the picture dictionary.
Thank you so much
Thank you so much for sharing this.
This is really good. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this! I can't wait to use it in class! =D
Thank you for sharing, I love it!
Thank you for sharing. It looks fun.
I used this with my 6th graders today, and they loved it! They especially enjoyed all the animations. I changed a couple of clues that I thought would be too difficult for them (the white ball on the turtle slide?), and I changed all the letters to the first letter of the name to avoid confusion. I used it as a warm-up activity, but it took about 10 to complete.
Used this as a review activity and the 6th graders enjoyed it! Some of the more trickier hints got them thinking, so that was nice and they were super impressed with the animations! Thank you so much for this!
Awesome activity like this makes me want to move to Elementary school.
Thank you! It is quite inspiring to have the 3 hint quiz format to be themed and I hope to find the time in the future to create similar materials to share :)
Having the moving bugs is such a nice touch as a still format can tend to feel like "death by power point" and this feels more lively!