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To employ kinesthetic activities using Play-Doh to check for understanding, encourage critical thinking and reinforce learning. Create is at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy. When students are asked to synthesize what they’ve learned and make a sculpture, they are critically thinking. Play-Doh is a great way to keep students engaged, let them use their hands, employ creativity, and implement a new and different form of assessment that is fun.

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Doh-Re-Mi, My Learning You'll See

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School:
Sabal Palm Elementary 
Subject:
Stem 
Teacher:
Wendy Frields 
 
First Grade Team  
Students Impacted:
96 
Grade:
Date:
September 12, 2021

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FL License For Learning License Plate Fund - $257.00

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Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 89

Play-Doh was used to check for understanding, encourage critical thinking and reinforce learning. Play-Doh has helped to develop fine motor skills, improve handwriting, encourage creativity, improve social skills, and provide hours of FUN while learning and working together in all areas of the curriculum for Sabal Palm’s First Grade Students.  When students were presented with Play-Doh as an option to show understanding of what they’ve learned, all students were engaged and creativity shined through in all of their work.  

 

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

To employ kinesthetic activities using Play-Doh to check for understanding, encourage critical thinking and reinforce learning. Create is at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy. When students are asked to synthesize what they’ve learned and make a sculpture, they are critically thinking. Play-Doh is a great way to keep students engaged, let them use their hands, employ creativity, and implement a new and different form of assessment that is fun. 

 

What will be done with my students

Play-Doh Check for Understanding: Students will summarize what they read and choose a section to create a Play-Doh sculpture. Play-Doh Vocabulary: Students will either be assigned or choose a vocabulary word to write a sentence and create a sculpture that best reflects that word. Process Play-Doh: Students will use Play-Doh to artistically represent a process. Timeline Play-Doh: Students will create a timeline by placing a small Play-Doh sculpture in boxes. Students will explain their sculptures to someone else in a reflective activity. Reconstruction: Students will reconstruct a setting from a story. They can use clues from the text to make the construction. Model: Students will make models to show what they learned or for help in solving story problems. Math Story Problems: Students will make models of story problems and graphs. Gallery Walk: Students will share their creations. For Kinesthetic Students: Students that have difficulty sitting still, Play-Doh can be an option to help them. Show and Tell: In addition to the students sharing what they did over the break or weekend, they will sculpt it.  

 

Benefits to my students

Play-Doh develops fine motor skills by building strength in their hands, improves handwriting skills, it is calming for children, it encourages creativity, enhances hand-eye coordination, improves social skills, supports all areas of the curriculum, and is FUN!  

 

Budget Narrative

The Play-Doh will be ordered from Amazon. Delivery is free and tax is included in the cost. Five first grade classrooms will receive a 36 Pack Case of Colors and a 2-lb Bulk Can of Play-Doh.  

 

Items

# Item Cost
1 Quantity 5: Play-Doh Modeling Compound 36 Pack Case of Colors, Non-Toxic, Assorted Colors, 3 Oz Cans (Amazon Exclusive) $133.70
2 Quantity 5: Play-Doh 2-lb. Bulk Super Can of Non-Toxic Modeling Compound with 4 Classic Colors - Red, Blue, Yellow, and White $123.30
  Total: $257.00

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