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Goal

To employ kinesthetic activities using Play-Doh to check for understanding, encourage critical thinking and reinforce learning. Create is at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy. When students are asked to synthesize what they’ve learned and make a sculpture, they are critically thinking. Play-Doh is a great way to keep students engaged, let them use their hands, employ creativity, and implement a new and different form of assessment that is fun. 

 

What will be done with my students

Play-Doh Check for Understanding: Students will summarize what they read and choose a section to create a Play-Doh sculpture. Play-Doh Vocabulary: Students will either be assigned or choose a vocabulary word to write a sentence and create a sculpture that best reflects that word. Process Play-Doh: Students will use Play-Doh to artistically represent a process. Timeline Play-Doh: Students will create a timeline by placing a small Play-Doh sculpture in boxes. Students will explain their sculptures to someone else in a reflective activity. Reconstruction: Students will reconstruct a setting from a story. They can use clues from the text to make the construction. Model: Students will make models to show what they learned or for help in solving story problems. Math Story Problems: Students will make models of story problems and graphs. Gallery Walk: Students will share their creations. For Kinesthetic Students: Students that have difficulty sitting still, Play-Doh can be an option to help them. Show and Tell: In addition to the students sharing what they did over the break or weekend, they will sculpt it.  

 

Benefits to my students

Play-Doh develops fine motor skills by building strength in their hands, improves handwriting skills, it is calming for children, it encourages creativity, enhances hand-eye coordination, improves social skills, supports all areas of the curriculum, and is FUN!  

 

Budget Narrative

The Play-Doh will be ordered from Amazon. Delivery is free and tax is included in the cost. Five first grade classrooms will receive a 36 Pack Case of Colors and a 2-lb Bulk Can of Play-Doh.  

 

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