I wanted to make a social distancing version of my Guess How Many activity.
Materials: a computer, projector/screen, handouts, a timer
How to play:
- Hand each student the sheet below with the letters A, B, C, and D on it. They'll use this for showing their answer.
- Divide the class into teams by rows. I recommend doing 2 or 3 teams, depending on how many students are in the class (34 students - 2 teams of 17, 33 students - 3 teams of 11, etc.) You'll need to have the same number of students on each team. Include the JTE if need be.
- Show each jar for about 5 seconds before hitting the enter button to cover it up. Hit enter again to reveal their ABCD options to choose from.
- The students hold up their cards, and you secretly record how many students on each team correctly answered.
- Hit enter again. "How many pieces of candy do you have?" appears. Have them repeat this after you, and then reveal the answer.
- Every student who held up the right card earns a point for their team. (so one question can potentially award 15+ points to a team)
- The questions get progressively harder, so I allotted more time as the game went on.
Notes on the PowerPoint
- The first part of the PowerPoint is for explaining what "pieces of" means
- The practice portion of the game starts on slide 12
- The actual game starts on slide 15
Source: I took the pictures of the candy jars and the answers from a BuzzFeed quiz called "I Bet You Can't Get Higher Than A 50% On This Guessing Quiz"
This is great. It could be followed up with a reading activity where they read passages and fill in pictures on a worksheet with the correct number and types of pieces. Writing as well.
Thanks so much!
Thank you for this! This unit is really boring and I didn't know how to spice it up
Nice idea.
I had to comment because I found this activity when I first started teaching in Japan 3 years ago and I still use it without fail every year and am shamed I never came up with something like it in my whole teaching career! My classes go absolutely wild for this every year and it`s become such a staple in my activity rotation! Such an awesome job!