Dr. Jerry Evanski's Student State Change # 46
Directions:
1. All students stand in a circle, facing center.
2. Students begin to number off from left to right
3. After students have numbered off around the circle once, the teacher begins to make it more complex.
Have students number off as they did before, except this time, instead of saying the number "five", or multiples of five, including 10, 15, 25, etc., the students say "BUZZ!"
It would sound like this:
"One, two, three, four, BUZZ, six, seven, eight, nine, BUZZ...."
4. The teacher can continue to make it more complicated, and put any conditions on the counting he/she would like.
For example, if students are working on the "seven's" times table, have students say "Buzz" for multiples of five, and "Fizz" for multiples of seven. For example it would sound like this:
"One, two, three, four, BUZZ, six, FIZZ, eight, nine, BUZZ, eleven, twelve,
thirteen, FIZZ, BUZZ, sixteen..."
Excerpted with permission from
The Missing Ingredient: State Changes and Energizers for your Classroom.
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