20 Vocabulary Snowball
Madison Long
Strategy Overview
- Vocabulary snowball is a wonderful way to incorporate students enhancement of their vocabulary terms and communication skills with peers in their class.
- The benefits of this activity include divergent thinking, cooperative and collaborative learning, peer learning, problem solving, reflective analysis
- This activity can increase student conversation in their learning, while also promoting retention of students comprehension for vocabulary terms.
Strategy in Action
Vocabulary Snowball is an activity that involves students participating together in not only enhancing their vocabulary words, but also having fun in a snowball fight. Students will each have a vocabulary word and definition written on separate sheets of paper. Students will then crumple their papers like snowballs and throw them into a center pile. From there, students will go into the middle, grab a snowball, and then have to converse and interact with each other to find their matching term and definition.
Student Example
- Students write vocabulary words and definitions on separate sheets of paper.
- Students crumple their papers into snowball like shapes, which they then throw their snowballs in the middle of the room to mix them up.
- Students find a snowball and then have to communicate with each other in order to find its matching definition or term.
- Activity can repeat for students to have the opportunity to engage with a variety of words.
