what is a creative idea for a five minute lesson, any subject, for any grade level?

Question

This is for an interview for a teaching job. I'm trying to think of something that would be really good at driving home the point and engages the class. (my 'class' is the other people interviewing for the job).

Answer 1

Give everyone these four sentences:

Before it got dark, we played basketball.
We played basketball after it got dark.
Before we played basketball, it got dark.
It got dark after we played basketball.

Which two sentences mean the same thing? (There are two sets of two) I use this with my students to show them that complex language isn't always easy to understand. I also use it to show them that you can say the same thing in different ways.

(If you have trouble trying to figure out what sentences go together, draw a picture)

Answer 2

Yikes! Having to teach other adults is always daunting. Here is a neat little fact that could be the basis for a probability lesson. You know that a penny, when flipped, will land on heads 50-50. But when you spin the same penny on a table, it will land on heads more often, apparently due to the weight distribution. You could use this as the basis for a quick lesson on making and changing hypotheses based on the data. Engage your "students" in gathering the data, collect their results, and talk about how they confirm or disprove the hypothesis. (I hope they don't misbehave for you!)

Alternatively, you could try a neat trick with Cheerios. Give everyone a sheet of paper with a circle with a different diameter. Give them Cheerios and have them make the diameter out of Cheerios. Teach what circumference is, and have them put the Cheerios for the circumference. Collect all their data and look for a relationship between the # of Cheerios in the diameter and the circumference. You'll find the circumference is usually about 3 times the diameter...because the formula for circumference is the diameter times pi! Even adults are intrigued by this concrete confirmation for something they learned in seventh grade but have probably forgotten.

Good luck!

Answer 3

The subject is art. The goal is to stimulate creativity.

Give each participant a pencil and paper. Ask each one to 1) pick a sense (sight, taste, sound, feel or smell) and 2) to pick a subject (person, place or thing) and, finally 3) ask each of them to draw (using no words) their impression of what they have chosen.

I.E.: the smell of a rose; the sound of a mountain, the taste of rocks, the .... well, you get the point.

Another way is for you to simply assign a preselected task to each participant.

I.E.: "You will draw the feel of soap," and "You will draw the sound of a foghorn." etc., etc.

Be prepared for a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

do a fun science experiment!