My Little Wagon is a resource that addresses color and size concepts. Students are invited to ‘Put a (big/little)(color)
_______ in your (color) wagon'. It is essentially a color matching task for
young
children.
children.
The first click brings in a colored wagon followed by a
field of 5 choices, e.g., little yellow truck (target), little red truck
(foil), big yellow truck (foil), little green bear (foil), big green bear
(foil)
When the child selects the incorrect item they hear a ‘gentler equivalent of no’ (i.e.,
huhugh)
When the child selects the correct item, the item is magically clunked into the
wagon.
And off we go! The second click pulls
the rattling wagon + its new contents off the page.
What if a field of 5 choices
is too much for your student(s)?
Maybe you want to
concentrate more specifically on color or size, but not both.
You can narrow the field of choice by deleting the non-target foils. After deleting the foils you can re-position the remaining foils to
balance the items on the grey disk. DO NOT delete or move the target item on that page. It has a specific relationship to
the matching wagon that should NOT be altered. Be sure to make a copy of the resource when you make a different version (gives you greater flexibility for additional modifications)
Here are some examples of differentiated instruction … the
result of ‘pruning’ the field of choice. Note the field has changed but the
location of the correct target item, i.e., little yellow truck (circled) has
remained unaltered on the gray disk.
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| Working on Size & Color Concepts Working on Size Concepts Working on Color Concepts |
What if you want it to be a
color identification task ... not a matching task?
The presence of the colored wagon obviously makes the
original resource a color matching task. If you wish to make this a color
identification task, place a white
rectangular shape over the color text for the wagon; then make the wagon
and its foreground a neutral color such as gray. This will need to be repeated
on each page.
Here’s the sequence for accomplishing this task within PowerPoint …. Select
the two wagon shapes holding down the shift key (base with rope +
foreground) …. Picture Format …. Color
…. Select the more neutral grey choice.
So one resource can be modified to address a variety of differentiated needs. The hard work has been done for you with the original Animated Step-by-Steps®! With a little bit of effort you can create several additional differentiated files that may better address the needs of specific students!
This resource is available in three formats (Regular, PCS, SymbolStix) on Teachers Pay Teachers.
http://bit.ly/MyLittleWagon .
Hope you have fun using it with your students on the computer, interactive whiteboard or iPad. : )
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