Classroom Teacher Integrated

Students are placed in teams of 4 or 5. One student from each team is appointed "secretary" and is responsible for writing "words" on the score sheet. All names of team members should be written on the form by each of the students on the team.

Students are told they can walk, skip, gallop or jog around the track. For each lap they perform, they are given a letter by the teacher. The more laps they do, the more letters they get. The students move around the track until either time is up or all the letters are gone.

When the whistle is blown, they go back to the area where their team's Scrabble Lap Score sheet is located. The students pool all their letters together and work as a team to form as many words as they can using the letters they were randomly given. Their words must be appropriate, three letters or longer and no proper nouns or abbreviations. Additionally, the words must be spelled correctly.

The team secretary writes the words as the team forms them. The letters can be used as many times as they want. Each correctly spelled word is worth one point; any words formed from their science or social studies vocabulary list (obtain words from the classroom teacher) are worth two points. At the end of approximately five minutes, collect the paper and pencils and evaluate the correctly spelled words to announce in the next class.