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CLASS MASCOT:
Ask your students to work in small groups to come up with a class mascot.
Give students questions to consider first, such as which animals would best describe who we are? Would a dog be our best mascot, or a lion? Why? If a dog, what kind of dog? A pug, a chihuahua, a Saint Bernard, or a bulldog, for instance? (You could also use the opportunity to list all the dog breeds you come up with on a side column of your classroom board. Leave the list there till the next morning, when you ask students to go home and look up a few more dog breeds to add to your list. Then ask your students to alphabetize that list on separate pieces of paper at their desks.) Have a vote to see which group's suggestion will become class mascot.
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Give students questions to consider first, such as which animals would best describe who we are? Would a dog be our best mascot, or a lion? Why? If a dog, what kind of dog? A pug, a chihuahua, a Saint Bernard, or a bulldog, for instance? (You could also use the opportunity to list all the dog breeds you come up with on a side column of your classroom board. Leave the list there till the next morning, when you ask students to go home and look up a few more dog breeds to add to your list. Then ask your students to alphabetize that list on separate pieces of paper at their desks.) Have a vote to see which group's suggestion will become class mascot.
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
*Members can access their Clarke Quote Classroom Poster below:
*Members can access the Quote Journal Worksheet below:
- Clarke Quote Poster [members only]
- Clarke Quote Journal [members only]