Sampling

Once my students got past the feelings of thinking that they needed to get all of the answers correct they really enjoyed the activity. It got to be a competition for them. I used the sampling questions for Social Studies. I did a unit on the U.S government and US presidents. I have class two times a week and the unit lasted for approximately four weeks. Our class time was always at the end of the school day and class lasted for around 45 minutes. I came up with 15 questions, so I asked them 4 questions per class period. I told the students about it the week before and let parents know via email. I was very pleased with how it went and I plan on doing it again next year. I am going to try to come up with more questions to use throughout the entire year that will cover many different content areas. Very good tool to use in the classroom!