Description

Students draw a refrigerator and decorate it like their refrigerator. Students then pair up and explain their refrigerators to their partner, who then explain their partners fridge to the rest of the class. This works very well as an ice breaker activity, but can also be applied to content as a way to think about things from a historical figure or literary characters perspective.

Content Application
English/Language Arts: Students will take on the role of a character in the book Holes, by Louis Sachar, and decorate their fridge as if they were that character. Students should think about what is important to that character, what they like to do, what happens to them in the book, and decorate their fridge accordingly. They will share them with the whole class when they are finished.

Intelligence Style

Refrigerator Magnetism
High

Modifications

Interpersonal: Student must explain their fridge to their partners, then explain their partners fridges to the class Intrapersonal: Students must think about what they have on their fridge and be able to explain why it is there. Most things on their fridge have personal meaning; why do they mean so much to them? Verbal-Linguistic: Explaining the fridge to each other and the whole class Spatial: Visually representing real-life objects from memory

Students can focus on themes that are represented in the book. Students should include at least 3, and the magnets should be symbolic of these themes. Students may also want to focus on the internal struggles of the characters.

Low

Rather than decorating the fridge from the perspective of a character, theses students can decorate their fridge to represent the entire book. They can include magnets to represent setting, characters, and major plot points.