Use this activity to review concepts through active student participation while checking for understanding using two sets of cards. One set of cards contains the answers to questions, the other set contains questions. (Answer location is set to match question location on the grid; consider keeping one copy in tact to use as an answer key prior to cutting into cards)
This activity is designed to clarify the learning that has taken place in the previous activities. Students play a game either as a whole class or within student groups to discover the answers to questions about striped bass
Teacher Note: This activity should take no more than approximately 50 minutes whether you play the game in small groups or as a whole group.
Objectives
- Students will review concepts of fish and physics through active student participation
- Students will collaborate to identify answers to questions about fish and physics
- Students will develop social skills as they play a game
Materials
Two sets of cards, one set contains questions related to the unit of study and the second set contains the answers to the questions. (See worksheets in Lesson Resources section, which can be photocopied on card stock, laminated and cut for reuse)
Note to teacher: answers appear in the same location on the grid that the question appears. Print a copy to use as an answer key.
Procedure
- Distribute decks of answer cards to students. Students deal these cards to the members of the group until all cards have been distributed.
- Place a stack of question cards face down in the middle of each of the student groups.
- Designate a student to turn over a question. The student reads the card and says “I have the question…Who has the answer?”
- All students check their answer cards to see if they have the correct answer or a possible answer. If a student thinks she has an answer, she reads the answer. If it is a match, the student with the answer turns over the next questions card, reads the question aloud, and the process continues.
Variations
- The whole group owns the answers distributed to individuals and they collaborate in deciding if they have a good answer.
- Start with just a few questions and answers for students and add to the collection as the unit progresses.
- Have students prepare the cards.
National Science Education Standards
9-12 A: Science as Inquiry
- Understandings about scientific inquiry
9-12 B: Physical Science
- Interactions of energy and matter
9-12 C: Life Science
- Interdependence of organisms
- Matter, energy, and organization in living systems
- Behavior of organisms
9-12 E: Science and Technology
- Understandings about science and technology
9-12 F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
- Environmental quality
- Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges
9-12 G: History and Nature of Science
- Nature of scientific knowledge
- Historical perspectives
Question Cards