View this presentation for the different activities you can use to make corrections for your Vocabulary Quizzes.

1. VOCABULARY
ACTIVITIES
Social Studies Skills

2. Vocabulary Activities
 Acrostic Poem
 Cinquain
 “The Important Thing”
 5Ws
 “I Am…”
 Concept Map

3. Acrostic Poem
 a “poem that uses the letters of a word to
begin each line vertically
 Off of each vertical letter, another word or
phrase is written that begins with the same
letter (teachervision.com).”
 Many of you are familiar with acrostics and
have probably created one for your name.

4. Acrostic Poem
The following is an example of an acrostic:
Prior to a written language
Records are the artifacts of that time
Even archaeologists don’t have all the answers
How do we fill in the gaps of what we don’t know?
Interpreting stones, fossils, and more
Stone Ages, new and old, are a part of this period in time
Technology was really simple then
Often, what really happened is up for debate
Realizing we will not uncover the whole story
Yet, we enjoy piecing together the clues

5. Cinquain
 A five line poem that has a specific structure.
Title Vocabulary word
Line 1 TWO adjectives* describing the word
Line 2 Begin the line with an –ing verb that tells what the word
does
Line 3 Begin the line with an –ing verb that tells what the word
does
Line 4 Begin the line with an –ing verb that tells what the word
does
Line 5 Using one or two words write another name for the
word
* Adjective – word used to modify a noun, sometimes end in –

6. Cinquain
Example of a Cinquain
Prehistory
Ancient, old
Existing before written records
Analyzing the Neolithic and Paleolithic eras
Remembering only through artifacts
Primitive times

7. “The Important Thing”
 What is the “important thing” about your
vocabulary term?
Format:
Line 1: Statement beginning with “The important
thing about…” followed by a brief description of
the term.
Line 2: A statement of truth about that term: “While it
is true that…”
Line 3: A return to Line 1: “But the important thing
about…”

8. “The Important Thing”
Example:
Prehistory
“The important thing about prehistory is that it occurred
prior to a written language.
While it is true that there are no printed records that tell
us what life was like during these times, we can use
artifacts to give us clues.
But the important thing about prehistory is that it
occurred prior to a written language.”

9. The “5 Ws”
 who, what, when, where and why
Describe the term by completing a table that
answers the 5 “W” questions:
Example:
Polytheistic
Who? What? Where? When? Why?
Many
ancient
people
Worshipping
many gods
First
civilizations
of Africa and
Asia
During
prehistoric
as well as
historic
times
Believed
several
spirits
controlled
natural
forces and
human

10. “I Am”
 “I am” statements personify the term you are
describing.
 They describe/relate to the vocabulary term.
 The Statements could be anything so think hard
about what may work with the terms you have
chosen.
The “I Am” activity requires you to tell about 3 things
that the personified version of this term did or has
done followed by a statement say “I am…”. You
must choose the verbs that work best for the
vocabulary term.

11. “I Am”
Example:
I AM the Proclamation of 1763
I Forbade* colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
I Prevented* conflicts between colonial settlers and Native Americans
on the frontier.
I Angered* the colonists who felt they had just fought a war for the right
to settle those lands.
I AM the first law after the French and Indian War that the colonists
disobeyed.
*NOTE:
This activity can be a little tricky. Although the terms Forbade,
Prevented, Angered were used to identify and describe the term,
those verbs may not work with terms you have chosen. It will be up
to you to figure out verbs that will work for you.

12. Concept Map
 Word maps help us to expand word meanings
and analyze relationships between terms,
concepts and ideas.
You will create a concept map in a Frayer Model
format that will include: the definition,
characteristics, examples and, a picture

13. Concept Map
Definition Picture
Characteristics Examples
[Vocab
Term]