Science in English: Some games performed in English

Lately in Science subject we have been doing some contests

The first one was an activating activity to introduce students to the new unit: The states of matter.

The subject was projected on the board and students had to think and write, in pairs, 10 verbs related to it.

The students enjoyed it a lot!

Another contest performed in classroom was some kind of running activity. The activity pretended to make student understant a very important mathematical concept, specially for science: the meaning of fractions when they are used as a unit.

The class was divided in four groups and for each one, a part of the black board was set with 20 fractions. The fractions were something like windows/house, people/car. Also there were some ones which are real units (km/h, g/ml...).

Then the contest started: Teacher said a santence that had some kind of relationship with one of the fractions (My house has 15 windows). A member of each group had to run and circle the correct one.

The activity was an incredible success, but there was a little problem: the emotion and excitement of the moment generated too much noise... we should think a way to minimize it.