Self Check Practice Activity

This is like "I have, Who has" activity.  The following is from Mrs. H. from Math Tales From The Spring.  Even though this example is from math it could be used in French for translation or English for key literary terms or many other things.

"This activity is called a Star Chain. When you are tired of doing boring book work or worksheets, but your students still need a little extra practice, try a Star Chain!

Each student will get 12 problems of anything you'd like to practice. For me, it was solving linear equations."

""Next, have students cut the problem cards apart.  After the cards are cut apart, students will pick any card they want to begin with. I usually tell them to pick the one that looks easiest to them. They work the problem and then find their answer at the top of another card. They tape the cards together. Continue the process until a chain is formed. If they do all the problems correctly, the last problem will match the answer at the beginning of the chain."

"The next day, we connected all the chains and strung them up on the ceiling. I'll probably leave them there until the fire marshall gets me!"

If you would like to use this in your class, just click here and change the questions to what pertains to your subject matter.

Here is an example from MathCathy using quadratics functions and translations.  

If you would like a copy of the handout sheets in pdf, click here.