Many thanks to macaroniross for the idea for this lesson! My activity for the 3rd grade textbook (Let's Try 1 Unit 3) was so popular, I implemented the same idea to the 4th grade textbook for the school supplies unit, a unit that is otherwise completely devoid of merit. >.> Enjoy!
Start off by introducing or reviewing all of the school supplies for the unit. In addition to the ones in the textbook, I've added a few common ones (scissors, tape, backpack, etc.) at the request of my coordinating teacher. After this, move onto the main activity. For each question, there is a specific pencil case. I found fun pencil cases, and then decided their owners afterwards, so there are some quite interesting and surprising characters this time. Each question will ask "How many?" to review counting numbers, as well as one school supply from the current unit.
Level 1 starts off fairly easy and moves onto to medium difficulty questions by the end. Students shouldn't have much trouble counting most of this level, except the last question, in which the characters themselves are pencil cases, so the answer is 10 and not 8.
Level 2 adds at least one additional item in addition to the one you're asking for, or asks for a specific color of something, or something to this effect. In lieu of a level 3 for this activity (like I made for 3rd grade), this level ramps up in difficulty fairly quickly. Students should be able to do the first few, but towards the end, you might have to play the animation a few times for them, as it gets quite difficult to count. The last question is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever made, with two Kaiju made out of pencil cases battling it out atop Tokyo after they've destroyed their school.
I do apologize for lower quality images than I'd like to use. PowerPoint absolutely eats RAM with certain animations, and the frame rate drops horrendously if I tried to use higher quality images, so I scaled them down to get the frame rate running smoothly. If the frame rate is still a bit choppy on your computer, you might be able to fix it by selecting all the images on the problem slide and clicking the "reduce image/file size" button and reducing it to web quality (150ppi) or email quality (96ppi). This has helped me improve the frame rate, even if I'd already done this to the slide before.
The font used in this is UDデジタル教科書. It should be on all of your school computers, but I don't have it on my personal computer at home. I prefer it because it has the handwritten lowercase "a" as well as other handwriting differences, but doesn't look like garbage like Comic Sans. If you don't have it, there might be some formatting discrepancies.
Credit to the respective copyright holders for use of the characters' pictures. Credit to flaticon.com for use of the school supply icons.
This is amazing, thanks for sharing!
This is great! My 3rd graders loved the falling objects game so I'm excited to try this with the 4th graders.
One note, and this may have been intentional, but you have a cheetah with the puma pencil case. Not a problem, but just thought I'd point it out!
Thanks for making this great ppt game! I will definitely be using for my JHS 1st grade and ES 4th graders. It was a bit too fast for even me to count everything so I slowed down all the animations since I just want to use this as a quick warm-up game.
Wow - the comedic timing on those falling pencil sharpeners is perfect!
This is amazing! Really funny!! I think my students will absolutely love it! <3
Great, thanks!...will use this. Just what I was looking for.
PS. It`s a leopard, not a cheetah
This is great. Ill definitely use this. Thank you for sharing.
I work in multiple schools and this activity worked great every single time. Thank you for sharing! I also used this ppt with my special needs classes in JHS. Thank you!
This is so well-made! Thanks for your efforts :)
Love it! Thanks
Thank you! I will be using this. :)
Just checking back in to say that my kids went crazy for this, hahaha.
I am reading the comments about elementary school. I work at an extremely low high school and the students LOVED this activity!! Do you or any others know of something similar in style... kids can have electronics or whatever in class and it is the first time you could hear a pin drop!! Please - help!
Beautiful, I don't have the patience to do what you do.
Used this as a main activity for the 4th grade and they had plenty of fun and laughed a lot! They were excited to see the characters and the falling items. Level 2 really got them laughing so much and going all "ehhhh?", it was really nice and fun for me too. Thank you so much for this! :)