Branches of Government - Find My Rule

Use Find My Rule for students to identify the branches of government.  For example give statements about the Executive Branch and students mus determine what the rule is.

Thin or Thick Questions - Find My Rule

Use find my rule for students to distinguish thin questions from thick questions.  Provide examples of questions for students to decide if they are thin or thick.

Fact or Opinion - Find My Rule

Use find my rule for students to distinguish between fact and opinion.  Provide statements around a specific topic or book that they are reading.

Geometry - Find my Rule

Find my Rule is a good enrichment activity for Geometry concepts. This week I used the structure for review. I presented four polygons to my students. They were shown a square, rectangle, trapezoid, and a rhombus. Outside of the Find My Rule box, I gave a non-example of my rule which was a triangle. The class came to a consensus that my rule was quadrilaterals. Sets of parallel lines, right angles, types of triangles, congruent figures, similar figures and lines of symmetry are examples of rules that can be used with Find my Rule.

Word Study – Find My Rule

My class recently completed a scavenger hunt looking for words that ended in the suffix –ed. Once we had gathered a number of words, we analyzed them.  Students came to the conclusion that in order to add –ed to the end of a word sometimes a spelling change is needed. Students concluded that some words need a double consonant, some may need the letter “e” dropped, and others may need nothing no change at all.  Simply add it to the end of the word. After practice and much modeling, my students completed a Find My Rule. They wrote 3-5 words that followed the same pattern. Students then quizzed their partner, and they had to decide what the rule was.

Example:
praised
scared
spiked

The rule: Drop the “e” and and –ed.