Today I spent a great day facilitating and working with our regional Math 5/6 PLC teachers. Some great sharing and professional discussions took place during out time together. I thought you might enjoy the energizing activity we started our morning with…
Truthfully, I can’t find the original site that inspired the PowerPoint activity, but the following blog post does go into a bit more detail… Inspirado: Numerology – What Your Birth Date Reveals About You! If you use the birthday personality PowerPoint with your students remind them that these types of activities are all in fun! Members of our PLC agreed that the activity was a quick, fun way to incorporate some basic math skills and the student data could be used to introduce or revisit simple data analysis and graphing skills.
Friday, 12. March 2010
Your post reminds me of an activity one of my friends does in her HS Psych class: She asks the students what their sign is and then reads off their horoscope. She does this for about 4-5 kids and they all agree that their horoscope fits them and what they are like etc. The catch is, at the end, she tells them that she read a different sign from the one that they actually are. It just goes to show you how gullible our students (and even adults) can be.