Vocabulary Activity

Our activity is from when Jane Marko presented. She provided many useful activities relating to vocabulary. If you would like more activities about vocabulary, I would check out her information that we received earlier this semester because it is loaded with information.

To start this activity, I would pass out cut out pieces of the vocabulary word list you are trying to teach your students. In our example, we have a vocabulary list about different types of soil. In a small group, have students work together to place the words into different category. Encourage students to try and not have a category for miscellaneous words that would not fit into a category created.

After each group has created different categories have one person from each group come up to the smart board and move the words to show the categories they created. Have other members of the group explain why they created the specific categories.

Below is a screen cast of the activity as well.

Screen Cast on Vocabulary Activity

Words used in Activity

Litter

Subsoil

Sand

Soil

Soil Horizon

Topsoil

Decomposer

Fertility

Mechanical weathering

Chemical Weathering

Silt

Loam

Bedrock

Organic Material

Humus

Worms

Dirt