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Snowball Words Activity

The vocabulary lesson plan aims to help students understand new words from the 'You’d Be Surprised' currency videos through a collaborative activity. Students will match words with definitions by selecting crumpled papers from a bin and finding their corresponding partners. The lesson is designed to enhance vocabulary comprehension and includes varying levels of support for different learners.

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Snowball Words Activity

The vocabulary lesson plan aims to help students understand new words from the 'You’d Be Surprised' currency videos through a collaborative activity. Students will match words with definitions by selecting crumpled papers from a bin and finding their corresponding partners. The lesson is designed to enhance vocabulary comprehension and includes varying levels of support for different learners.

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Vocabulary Lesson Plan

Snowball Words
Purpose of Activity
This activity is designed to familiarize students with words in the “You’d Be Surprised”
currency videos that they may not have seen before. By working with their peers to find
the matching words and definitions before the video is shown, the students will have a
better understanding of the content presented.

Concepts taught: understanding words, vocabulary, definitions, collaborative discussion

Materials • A list of vocabulary words and • A large bin


definitions from one of the • You’d Be Surprised: Special Features video
Needed “You’d Be Surprised” videos and/or the You’d Be Surprised: The Journey
• White paper video uscurrency.gov/videos

Instructions
Give a vocabulary list and a piece of paper to Invite the students to choose a snowball out of
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each student. the pile and return to their seat.

Go around the room and tell each student a word When all of the students have selected a
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or definition to write on their paper. snowball, tell them to stand up and move around
the room to try to find the person who has the
After the students write on their piece of paper, definition of their word or the word that matches
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tell them to crinkle it up into a ball and toss it
into the bin that will be brought to them.
Show the video(s) to the students to reinforce the
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Mix all the snowballs up in the bin and allow each vocabulary they have learned.
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student to choose one.

Level of Learning
Level One: Read the word or definition written on the Level Two: Follow the activity as written above.
piece of paper to the students who may have reading
issues when they pick up their snowball. Allow other Level Three: When the higher learners have found their
students to help guide those who are having trouble partners, allow them to help the other students to be
finding their partner. successful.

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