Your Challenge: Create a spinning wheel to randomize what you do to take a brain break throughout the day.
Background: A brain break is a short 3–5 minute activity that usually gets your blood pumping. Even when you’re stuck inside all day, you can still get a little exercise.and have fun while doing it. Your brain break can consist of a mini-dance party, some jumping jacks, or a Go Noodle video.
Materials Needed: cardboard, scissors, colored paper or markers, toothpicks or pushpins, fidget spinner or paper clip
Considerations: As you begin designing your spinning wheel, consider these questions:
• How many options will you include on your wheel?
• What is the probability that you land on each option?
• If you like one option more than another, how can you increase the probability of landing on that option?
• How could you design your spinning wheel to easily change out the options?
• How else might you use a spinning wheel to make decisions?
Goal:
1. Watch the videos on this playlist or this student-created tutorial for ideas on making your own spinning wheel: bit.ly/wheelplaylist
bit.ly/tutorialSW.
2. Gather your materials.
3. Build your spinning wheel.
4. Test it out!
5. Share your spinning wheel in action. Send videos or pictures to me, your teacher and friends.
Modifications for Younger Learners: Give learners a template for a spinning wheel. Have them represent their choices with pictures and suggest that an older sibling or guardian adds text labels for the learner
bit.ly/templateSW