Highlights Hidden Pictures Action For Comparison Information Sets

Today's weblog post service was inspired past times Cheryl Leung in addition to Where's Waldo? (affiliate link) 

I loved this idea, exactly I had a problem.  My Where's Waldo? (affiliate link) books from my childhood are long gone. I considered ordering a few from Amazon, exactly I needed them sooner rather than afterward for class.  

Now, it's fourth dimension for a fun fact.  Did y'all know that dissimilar countries direct maintain dissimilar names for Waldo?  The actual refer of the franchise is "Where's Wally?"  The books were released inwards the the U.S. of A. every bit "Where's Waldo?"   I constitute this nautical chart of dissimilar names for Wally/Waldo from Wikipedia to live really interesting! 

I couldn't brand this activity run amongst Waldo for this year, then I started brainstorming other ideas.  That's when I remembered sitting inwards the dentist's role every bit a kid staring at the hidden motion-picture present puzzle inwards Highlights Magazine.  

Lucky for us teachers, Education World features gratis PDF downloads of 12 hidden motion-picture present puzzles from Highlights.  

I printed off each of the 12 pictures in addition to used the snipping tool to cutting out i of the images to search for inwards each picture.

  

I printed 2 sets of each motion-picture present in addition to 2 sets of the cards amongst pictures to find.  The cards were laminated in addition to cutting apart.  Then, I assembled them into motion-picture present finding packets using the clear plastic sleeves that I blogged most inwards this post.  

I tried out a packet of Avery Corner Lock Document Sleeves (affiliate link), in addition to they are absolutely perfect.  They are pretty much identical to the Avery Plastic Sleeves (affiliate link) that I ordered before inwards the year, exactly they direct maintain a colored corner that locks papers inwards place.  

Students were given a plastic sleeve (affiliate link) amongst a hidden motion-picture present puzzle in addition to a bill of fare amongst a motion-picture present to locate within the puzzle, a MyChron timer, in addition to a information recording canvass to gum into their interactive notebooks.  

   

These MyChron timers (affiliate link) have gotten then much utilization this year.  I dearest that my students remain focused on their information collection instead of getting distracted past times incoming notifications on their phones!  

Here's what the notes I created for our interactive notebooks ended upwards looking like.  The front end of the foldable has a infinite for students to tape their fourth dimension for finding the hidden exceptional inwards each picture.  

Then, students write their times inwards order, notice the 5 set out summary, in addition to cheque for outliers.  

The within of the foldable has them practise a box-and-whisker plot for their information in addition to the information of iii of their classmates.  Then, they are given infinite to write a paragraph comparison in addition to contrasting their hidden motion-picture present finding skills to those of their classmates.    

I had anticipated that this activity would accept one-half of a fifty-minute shape period.  It genuinely ended upwards taking an entire fifty-minute shape period.  We did this on a 24-hour interval where to a greater extent than or less one-half of the shape was absent due to a runway meet, then I was fine amongst moving at a slower footstep since then many students would involve to larn caught upwards anyway.

When I practise this activity again, I intend I volition trim down the set out of hidden pictures from 12 to perchance 8???  I intend that having to a greater extent than information points gives us to a greater extent than interesting information to examine, exactly some of my students had a genuinely difficult fourth dimension finding the hidden pictures. One pupil spent xiii minutes of shape looking unsuccessfully for i of the hidden pictures.  He solely constitute it after I gave him a HUGE hint.  I desire them to collect data, exactly I don't desire information collection to overshadow the destination of this lesson: comparison information displays.

Here are some activeness shots of my students completing this activity.

I await forrard to farther refining this activity inwards the future.  Maybe I should practise the activity myself in addition to permit the students compare their motion-picture present finding skills to mine???

The files for this activity tin live constitute here.

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