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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject: Public middle-school camps -- post your ideas here |
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It's that time of the year again..
I did a search but could only find ideas aimed towards elementary students. I'm looking for some fresh ideas more appropriate for middle- or even high-school students.
Here a couple of mine:
1) Make ice-cream using dry ice or liquid nitrogen. Teach basic dry-ice or nitrogen handling, have students make recipe cards, and then make the ice-cream. It's messy and lots of fun. Give prizes for best ice-cream categories (texture, taste, etc. etc.)
2) Dramas. Divide the students into groups, plop a bunch of storybooks on the table, and tell the students to write and act out plays. Let them do everything, and just circle around and help them. Last day get the students to put on a performance.
3) Websites. If you have computer lab access, let the students design a website and/or online journal.
4) Pop bottle shoot: Using an air pump and one-way valve, pump air into a 2L pop bottle and shoot it off. Lessons can include the science language ('velocity', 'pressure', 'distance'). Get the students to design their rockets, shoot them off and have a competition who can shoot their rocket the furthest. |
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Day 1.
Names.
Name tags
Warm-up
Clapping beats, echo clap, work out the leader � leader is person who sets the rhythm maybe touch ear clap touch nose double calp.
Ice breaker activities
Find someone who.
Intonations
Saying hello
Team work.
Home and dry reading - 100-101
Day 2
Are you a genius?
general knowledge quiz
Ss perform in and write their own general knowledge quiz
Egg parachuting � A4 paper, Scotch tape, 10 eggs.
Ss design and make parachutes to safely land uncooked eggs from the second floor.
Day 3 My own restaurant
My own restaurant
Requests, ordering food, food vocabulary
Making pancakes
Following instructions
eggs, flour, sugar, milk
Day 4
Where I live.
mini-project
Directions, present simple, places in a town, design a leaflet.
Day 5 � Monday
Survival in the jungle
past simple, present simple, jungle/survival vocabulary.
Set groups for field trip.
Discuss where they are going.
Set homework of finding out about the field trip location
Day 6
Planning the trip.
Groups work together to decide their roles for the field trip.
Plan outline of what they need to find out.
Decide as one group what they need to bring.
Day 7
Field trip
Day 8
Writing up field trip
Making poster and presentation.
Practicing presentation.
Day9
Final practices and finishing touches
Presentation
Certificates
Lunch |
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Not exciting or that interesting but fairly educational. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| A treasure hunt using those little memo cards good for learning prepositions of place. At the end you can put some popsicles |
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passport220
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Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:15 am Post subject: |
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Cool thread with great ideas!
In the camps I usually have team activities so I have them break up into what will be their teams right away. I have them think of team names with a mascot and have them make a team poster and write a team fight song (I use American mascots and school fight songs as models).
They really get into it once they grasp the concept (Korean schools do not embrace the mascot idea like we do in America). At the final camp activity it was a fierce battle between the �Drunken Tigers� and the �Super Chickens�. |
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Rapacious Mr. Batstove
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: Central Areola
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Public middle-school camps -- post your ideas here |
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| bosintang wrote: |
1) Make ice-cream using dry ice or liquid nitrogen. Teach basic dry-ice or nitrogen handling, have students make recipe cards, and then make the ice-cream. It's messy and lots of fun. Give prizes for best ice-cream categories (texture, taste, etc. etc.) |
'Scuse me while I nip down to the 7/11 and pick up a bottle of liquid nitrogen. How about making sodium bombs with the students? Perhaps mixing steel wool and hydrochloric acid and collecting the hydrogen to make bang balloons?
Idea ) Arc welding. Using English instruction, teach the students how to arc weld metal joints. See who can weld the most creative metal structure. Advanced students can most on to underwater welding, must provide own scuba gear though.
Seriously, the other ideas in your list were great Bosintang.
Idea) Students design a town Appoint each student in charge of different areas of a town. Residential, parks, industrial, commercial, recreation, education, utilities etc. In groups they make a poster with their designs. They then present their ideas to the class. Arrange the posters together to make a small town, talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the town. |
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bosintang
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: Public middle-school camps -- post your ideas here |
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| Rapacious Mr. Batstove wrote: |
Seriously, the other ideas in your list were great Bosintang.
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I've made the ice-cream with dry ice during a camp before and it went well..the only problem with dry ice is that it gives the ice-cream a slightly 'fizzy' taste, like flat soda. Liquid nitrogen works better because it's liquid and easier to mix than solid dry ice, and because it burns off quicker.
You need to be careful with it, but it's not as dangerous or exotic as it sounds. (There are actually a few trendy restaurants in North America and England that are serving up their ice-cream that is made this way.) |
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Rapacious Mr. Batstove
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: Public middle-school camps -- post your ideas here |
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| bosintang wrote: |
| Rapacious Mr. Batstove wrote: |
Seriously, the other ideas in your list were great Bosintang.
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I've made the ice-cream with dry ice during a camp before and it went well..the only problem with dry ice is that it gives the ice-cream a slightly 'fizzy' taste, like flat soda. Liquid nitrogen works better because it's liquid and easier to mix than solid dry ice, and because it burns off quicker.
You need to be careful with it, but it's not as dangerous or exotic as it sounds. (There are actually a few trendy restaurants in North America and England that are serving up their ice-cream that is made this way.) |
The idea is great. I know of a few useful experiments/activities with using dry ice. The dry ice orchestra is a fun one.
I was mainly commenting on the availability of LN and DI for Korean Summer school camps. |
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I would use aluminium foil and sodium hydroxide if I wanted to collect hydrogen to make bang balloons. |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Public middle-school camps -- post your ideas here |
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| Rapacious Mr. Batstove wrote: |
The idea is great. I know of a few useful experiments/activities with using dry ice. The dry ice orchestra is a fun one.
I was mainly commenting on the availability of LN and DI for Korean Summer school camps. |
Not sure about LN, my school wouldn't let me use it, but I'm sure you can find it if you look.
As for DI, my co-teacher found an online site where you can get about 25kg of it delivered for about 20,000won (way more than you will need). |
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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There was an video clip on you-tube of students using dry ice in whisky to vaporize the ethanol and then inhale it up their noses.
Looked exciting. |
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bosintang
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| mrsquirrel wrote: |
| I would use aluminium foil and sodium hydroxide if I wanted to collect hydrogen to make bang balloons. |
Add a few nails, tacks, and other forms of shrapnel and you can make some pretty nasty 'drano' bombs...I'll save that one for next year's camp.  |
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Rapacious Mr. Batstove
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| mrsquirrel wrote: |
| I would use aluminium foil and sodium hydroxide if I wanted to collect hydrogen to make bang balloons. |
Sure. Both would work. Effectiveness would rely on the molarity of the acid/hydroxide. |
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bosintang
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Any more bites?
I'll add another:
1) Karaoke / Variety show -- Set up a microphone and let the kids have a singing contest or make the give a performance of some kind. |
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ddeubel
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Of course I second the use of karaoke! Get the karafun player and use my songs......
I also like using the computer lab if available. Lots students can do there and not just making a web page. as I've mentioned before, www.englishspace.ort.org is a good online site. I also have a full set of links for CALL on my site. Many schools, have a computer lab available and I would say USE IT! for camp.
DD |
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