Looking for more picture cards to use in your classroom? Well – you’re in luck! In addition to updating some of the photos in our collection of picture cards to better represent the students in our classes, we’ve just added new picture cards for Lesson 6.2 – Running Errands in the City.
We’ve also had several teachers ask for grids and templates to use when having students survey and interview each other. If you’re comfortable with excel, you can create your own grids, but if excel isn’t your best friend, you’ll also find a new Other Supplemental Materials menu item on the For the Classroom page with a few different types of excel grids (horizontal, vertical, and a weekly calendar grid). You can resize the grids and add your own text to the columns and/or rows, depending on how you want to use them with your students.
Looking for ideas of ways to use grids? Check out this Car and Truck Survey created by Heide Spruck Wrigley that has students survey each other about their vehicles. If you use Lesson 8.2, this survey could be a great extension activity. Once students have surveyed each other, you can also use the info gathered in a number of ways, from asking students to line themselves up by the year of their car, to charting the makes of cars on the board, or comparing number of people who drive a car, to those who ride the bus, walk, or ride their bike.