{"id":1679,"date":"2012-08-30T15:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2012-08-30T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:13:21","slug":"first-day-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/08\/30\/first-day-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hi all! \u00a0Before explaining the activity below, I wanted to let you know that I&#8217;ll be posting from Kigali, Rwanda, for the next month and a half. \u00a0I&#8217;m conducting dissertation interviews and interning with the National Research Center on Genocide; if you&#8217;re interested, you can follow the travels <a href=\"http:\/\/holliesdissertation.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0Thanks!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>************************************************************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>With the start of classes right around the corner, we thought it&#8217;d be useful to post a potential activity for the first day. \u00a0This activity, human bingo, was developed by some University of Minnesota graduate students and can easily be modified. \u00a0Essentially, it&#8217;s a good way to get students talking to one another and start creating a positive environment in the classroom. \u00a0In addition, the survey attached to the activity allows you to get to know your students right away. \u00a0Here you can find a copy of the activity,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2012\/08\/Human-Bingo.pdf\">Human Bingo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also asked students to share the most interesting place they&#8217;ve been, which has resulted in some fun conversations. \u00a0We&#8217;d love to hear your first day activities as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all! \u00a0Before explaining the activity below, I wanted to let you know that I&#8217;ll be posting from Kigali, Rwanda, for the next month and a half. \u00a0I&#8217;m conducting dissertation interviews and interning with the National Research Center on Genocide; if you&#8217;re interested, you can follow the travels here. \u00a0Thanks! ************************************************************************************************************************ With the start of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18645],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-first-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}