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Angry Chickens

Posted By: Ben on January 23 2012 4:51 PM| Views: 1208
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Our version of Angry Birds.

Students are put into teams, we had 12, it just depends on how much equipment you have.  Each team has the materials listed below and a picture book of the different levels.  Teams will look at picture of each level and must work together to construct the level and then must take turns to try and knock down the pigs from each level.  If the entire structure is knocked down, then it's just extra, but teams only have to knock down pigs to move to next level.  If part of a structure is left, but pigs are knocked down, teams can still move on.  The team will just have a headstart on constructing the next level on a few of the first levels.  In a 50 minute class period we had several teams make it to level 13.  We played this 2nd grade through 5th grade.

Items we used:  hula hoops, cones, bowling pins, empty paint cans, fabric boards, klennex boxes, boxes, treasure chest, rubber chickens, fitness bands

Note:  Do not let students squat down to shoot chickens, sometimes they do misfire and go backwards.


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Brad Britton wrote: on Jan 24, 2012 07:55 AM
Great stuff!
Thanks for sharing (-:
Scott wrote: on Jan 30, 2012 03:10 PM
Great activity Ben and I like you stations. I did an activity similar and the kids ate it up. I bought the BrickWorks acitivity last year and the foam bricks work very well for this activity also. I took photos of how the structures were to be and students had to work together to build it and also knock it down to get the pigs.
David Stapleton wrote: on Jan 31, 2012 11:31 AM
Ben, cool activity. How did the students remember what all of the different levels looked like?
Ben wrote: on Jan 31, 2012 04:00 PM
Scott - my original idea was to use the foam bricks, but the budget didn't allow for me to go that way, so I had to go with the equipment I already had. The boxes and boards were all free so, you can't beat that. I will say though, some of the grades hit the structures so hard with the chicken that we had to replace some of the klennex boxes. Foam bricks may be the way to go. I would like to see some of your structures to add them to the ones I already have.

David - I think it shows part of it in the video, but I printed the levels off and made a book for each team/group. Everyone started with level one and moved on from there. So the students would look at the picture, build it, then try to knock it down.
Scott wrote: on Feb 01, 2012 12:58 PM
Ben, I put some photos of a few of my stations in my photo album. I do use different sized yarn balls and success balls instead of the chickens because they were doing too much damage.

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