Following Directions Lab
Have one member of your group read this to everyone else:
Welcome to following directions. "This is dumb, why do we have to learn how to
follow directions?" you ask yourself. Excellent question! Reading directions is
going to be extremely important to your new life in your science classroom. If you
follow the directions in your assignments you'll discover how to be an independent
learner. Read ALL the directions before you begin!
A. Write down the first, middle and last names of everyone in your group. One
per line.
B. Write down every person in your group's middle name in the right column,
and on the left column across from their name, put the number of children in
their family. This mayor may not include half and steps; doesn't matter. If
someone asked you how many kids there are in your family total what number
would you give them?
C. Get a small sticky note from your teacher. Draw a star on it, and put it
anywhere on the other side of this sheet.
D. Find out who in your group went the furthest
away from DuBois during this
past summer break. Write their vacation destination on this line in tiny
letters.
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E. Count all the sinks, visible paper towel dispensers, soap dispensers, add
together, and subtract them from the number of electrical outlets. Place
that number here.
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F. Draw a small flower anywhere next to the boxes where you wrote your
middle names.
G. Write three sentences on what you learned in last year's science class. Use
good grammar, spelling and punctuation. Use the word "science" at least
three times. Now disregard every direction I just gave you in this "G"
section, and instead write the word "potato" and nothing else.
H. Find a science book of any sort. Go to the back and find a definition longer
than ten words. Write that definition below, upside down.
I. Count the number of chairs in your room, then subtract the number of sinks
in the room. Add ten to that number, and write it here
J. Disregard everything about H, don't do it at all.
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K. Make a list of at least ten items that are in this science classroom that you
aren't likely to see in any other of your DAHS class rooms.
L. Get a cup from your teacher.
Pour some water in it from a sink. Get a paper
towel while you are there. Then have everyone take a drink from the cup.
JUST JOKING!
But try to get someone from another group to stick their
nose in it. If successful,
write their name here
(
Clean up any resulting mess.)
M. Come up with a school appropriate
joke. Tell it to your teacher.
them laugh, draw a smiley face next to the letter "J" dir-ect.on
If it makes
above. If
they don't laugh, draw a frowny face next to the "M" of this direction.
N. Figure out when the youngest person in the room was born. Figure out what
that looks like in this format: two digits for month, two for date, four for
year. Then reverse the order of those numbers and put them on the line
below. Do not share the answers with any other group or you must throw
away your paper and do the entire lab over again.
O. Write down the first letter
Equate each letter
of the last name of each member of your group.
to the number of the letter
C=3 etc) and add up the score.
in the alphabet. (A=l
B=2
If it is an even number, the group must stand
up, flap their arms and "Caw" like a crow for 10 seconds. If the number is
odd, the group must strut
like a chicken calling "bwaack, bwaack, bwaack" for
10 seconds. Turn in your completed paper.
Goofy's Directions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HHM
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