Highlights Hidden Pictures Activity for Comparing Data Sets

Today's weblog post service was inspired past times Cheryl Leung together with Where's Waldo? (affiliate link)

I loved this idea, simply I had a problem. My Where's Waldo? (affiliate link) books from my childhood are long gone. I considered ordering a few from Amazon, simply I needed them sooner rather than afterward for class.

Now, it's fourth dimension for a fun fact. Did y'all know that dissimilar countries stimulate got dissimilar names for Waldo? The actual advert of the franchise is "Where's Wally?" The books were released inward the USA every bit "Where's Waldo?" I establish this nautical chart of dissimilar names for Wally/Waldo from Wikipedia to live rattling interesting!

I couldn't brand this activity run amongst Waldo for this year, then I started brainstorming other ideas. That's when I remembered sitting inward the dentist's purpose every bit a kid staring at the hidden pic puzzle inward Highlights Magazine.

Lucky for us teachers, Education World features gratuitous PDF downloads of 12 hidden pic puzzles from Highlights.

I printed off each of the 12 pictures together with used the snipping tool to cutting out i of the images to search for inward each picture.

I printed ii sets of each pic together with ii sets of the cards amongst pictures to find. The cards were laminated together with cutting apart. Then, I assembled them into pic finding packets using the clear plastic sleeves that I blogged most inward this post.

I tried out a packet of Avery Corner Lock Document Sleeves (affiliate link), together with they are absolutely perfect. They are pretty much identical to the Avery Plastic Sleeves (affiliate link) that I ordered before inward the year, simply they stimulate got a colored corner that locks papers inward place.

Students were given a plastic sleeve (affiliate link) amongst a hidden pic puzzle together with a carte amongst a pic to locate within the puzzle, a MyChron timer, together with a information recording canvas to gum into their interactive notebooks.

These MyChron timers (affiliate link) have gotten then much usage this year. I dear that my students remain focused on their information collection instead of getting distracted past times incoming notifications on their phones!

Here's what the notes I created for our interactive notebooks ended upward looking like. The forepart of the foldable has a infinite for students to tape their fourth dimension for finding the hidden exceptional inward each picture.

Then, students write their times inward order, uncovering the 5 position out summary, together with cheque for outliers.

The within of the foldable has them practice a box-and-whisker plot for their information together with the information of 3 of their classmates. Then, they are given infinite to write a paragraph comparison together with contrasting their hidden pic finding skills to those of their classmates.

I had anticipated that this activity would accept one-half of a fifty-minute shape period. It genuinely ended upward taking an entire fifty-minute shape period. We did this on a twenty-four hr catamenia where around one-half of the shape was absent due to a runway meet, then I was fine amongst moving at a slower measuring since then many students would postulate to larn caught upward anyway.

When I practice this activity again, I mean value I volition bring down the position out of hidden pictures from 12 to mayhap 8??? I mean value that having to a greater extent than information points gives us to a greater extent than interesting information to examine, simply some of my students had a genuinely difficult fourth dimension finding the hidden pictures. One pupil spent xiii minutes of shape looking unsuccessfully for i of the hidden pictures. He exclusively establish it after I gave him a HUGE hint. I desire them to collect data, simply I don't desire information collection to overshadow the finish of this lesson: comparison information displays.

Here are some activity shots of my students completing this activity.

I await frontward to farther refining this activity inward the future. Maybe I should practice the activity myself together with allow the students compare their pic finding skills to mine???

The files for this activity tin move live establish here.