Lesson Plan
Scavenger Hunt Addition
Get your students moving with this activity that helps them practice their addition skills while having fun hunting for their next problem.
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Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to use their own strategies to solve basic addition problems and explain, in their own words, how they got the answers.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Invite the students to come together into a group.
- Ask the students if they have ever done a scavenger hunt. Call on a few students to explain scavenger hunts that they have done in the past.
- Explain to students that today they will be partaking in a math scavenger hunt!
- Ask students to look around the room to observe the colorful paper hanging on the walls and seats. Tell them that these sheets are labelled with a letter from A-T and have a math problem on each of them to solve.
Beginning
- Build understanding of a scavenger hunt by creating a list of objects for students to hunt for in the classroom or on the playground prior to the lesson.
- Instruct students to explain in their own words what was involved in the scavenger hunt (i.e., finding the item and checking it off on the list).
Intermediate
- Prompt students to describe a scavenger hunt using the sentence frame, "A scavenger hunt is fun because ________."