Activity:
By asking specific questions, the students should find out which animal they are.
Group size/social form:
Whole group or partner work
Material:
• item 2; What animals are there in the forest? 1; Animal track puzzles (A4)/ animal postcards
copy template:
item 2; What animals are there in the forest?; Animal track puzzles (A4) --> 1 copy
Time requirement:
15 minutes
Learning goals:
The students deepen their knowledge of animals or other terms related to the forest.
Preparation:
Print out and laminate notes with names or pictures of animals. Postcards or the cards from item 2 can also be used.
Process:
After a short break and all the students have eaten their morning snack, the teacher divides the class into groups of two. Afterwards, each student receives a piece of paper with the name of an animal on it. However, this note should not be looked at beforehand. Then the group starts walking. Now, while running, they try to find out from the other participants which animal they are by asking questions that can be answered with “yes” or “no”. The questions are intended to find out about the characteristics or peculiarities of the animals. Only one question may be answered between two people. Then a new person has to be interviewed. The questions can be, for example: "Do I have fur?" "Can I fly?" "Am I going to hibernate?" etc. Anyone who has found out who he or she is can have a new animal picked up from the teacher. Who found the most animals at the end? The game ends when the group has reached the next post. At the end, the animals can be presented to the group by the participants. Open questions can then be answered.
Differentiation: *= cycle 1/ **= cycle 2
* For students who have not yet mastered the written language, pictures of animals can be used instead of name tags.
** For the 2nd cycle, instead of animal images, tree or other images or forest terms can be used to increase the level of difficulty.