I wanted to give
people viewing a chance to take a look at one of my first prop boxes I have
created. The box is a themed science box that deals with different types of
texture. The idea behind the box is that it is a comprised materials box that
children can open up and immediately understand the task they are supposed to
perform and conceptualize the content in which the box is suppose to help them
understand. My box that I created was an activity in which students organized
different items into five categories of texture. In order to aid them in this
process they will have a multitude of resources and tools so that they can
understand the classifying of the objects. Some objects could go in more than
one category of texture causing students to really analyze the texture of items
when classifying. Anything that creates a higher order of thinking is always a
good thing!
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This is what the box
looks like with everything packaged inside. It is small and can be easily moved
so it can be stored anywhere in the classroom. It is really a child friendly
size!
Inside
the box children are given a number of resources to help them classify the
items. These are four books at different levels that relate to some form of
texture. Two are non-fiction and two are fiction.
This is another
resource that can be used to help the children classify the forms of texture.
On the left are hands that have examples of each type of texture on each
finger. On the right is a "texture table" in which each form of
texture the students are classifying is defined.
This is an example of
some of the small items children would be classifying in different texture
groups. I stored them in small plastic Tupperware containers.
This is the finished
product! Students use their resources and sort the items in different texture
categories.
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