Made this to go with the Big Dipper English communication 2 textbook lesson about universal design. My JTE let me do whatever so I decided to talk about Olympic Pictograms, with an activity to encourage students to think about communicating without words.
For my lesson I used the powerpoint to talk a bit about universal design in general, then talked about pictograms in general and then Olympic pictograms. This took about 8 minutes to present.
During the Olympic section I had the kids do the matching exercise on the front of the worksheet. I gave them about 5 min to do it and then go over answers with a partner, then showed the answer slides where they read out the answers as a class.
Then I showed my example English club pictogram and had kids get in groups of 5-6 students. I provided a list of clubs at my school that I thought would be interesting/not too difficult and excluded ones like baseball and volleyball club that already had a pictogram that was shown during the presentation. Had each group choose a club from the list, and only one group could choose a given club. Feel free to switch up the club list or do an entirely different category for pictograms (like tourist signs, shops at a mall, etc) since it's more about communicating ideas. The back side of the worksheet is for brainstorming, and the way I checked for individual engagement (everyone should take notes even tho it's a group project)
Gave them about 20 minutes to design and then 1 min per group to present since it was a big class, which was a little tight. Would be good to include more time to design, or split up the design and presentation stages over two class periods if you're able to. Could also have bigger groups so less presentations, but then less kids might be involved.
I love this idea! I like how you lead them up to the creating itself instead of just throwing them in the deep end. Looking forward to trying this in my low-level HS class soon.
This looks good! I'm sure I'll be using it soon if my JTEs ask for activities in that chapter so thank you!
You should add tags so that other people can find it later!
Thanks for the suggestion to add tags, I'm new to ALTopedia so had to figure out how to use the feature. Hope that helps.