Any ideas as to what to do for an assembly??

Question

I have to give an assembly tomorrow, and I'm completely stuck for ideas!! Can anyone think of anything eg games, quizzes etc.

Please help me!

Answer 1

Well tomorrow's earth day, so think green.

You could use hte assembly to start a waste reduction campaign. Encourage kids to bring drinks in reusable nalgene or simmilar containers. Food should be carried in reusable tupperware and lunch boxes. Provide a seperate trash can for each class at all school meals and snacks. weigh each classrooms trash each day and post the results on a big poster. Give a prize for the class that makes the least waste at the end of the week. Maybe that class gets to paint a special mural at the school, or lead morning announcements for a week. Don't make the prize based on consumption!

Get them excited with a contest at the assembly. The classes can cluster in groups (one class is one group) and brainstorm ways to reduce garbage waste at school. The group with the longest list gets dismissed first from the assembly.

---Or, if your school has a lot of windows, have each class trace, cut out, and hang paper birds sillouhettes. This prevents birds from being injured by flying into the window because they don't see it.

---Or, start a compost pile, and take this opportunity to teach the kids what can be composted (napkins, fruits vegetables and grains. If you put in meat or dairy it will take a bit longer to decompose.

read http://www.compostguide.com/ to get specifics



Whatever you do good luck and have fun.

Answer 2

Well it kind of depends on your resources. When you are talking an assembly are you talking about actually building something or just CAD data? If you are building something then one of my favorites is the bridge contest. You basically give the students a set amount of balsa wood, tung depressors, and wood glue. Then tell them to build the best bridge they can. You can easily require them to document it by creating engineering drawing and a bill of material. Take the bridge and suspend it between two sturdy objects that wont slide apart either(tape them to the floor even). Then pour sand into the bucket. When the bridge fails weigh the bucket and you can figure out real quick who put more work into their assembly. If the bucket gets full you will need to get some weights from the school weight room to place in the bucket, then repeat filling with sand. This is a cheap and easy assembly that is used in a lot of school in Texas and they even have a contest in many states for building these bridges. A more expensive approach that involves a lot more physics is having students suspend something using magnets. This can be a lot of fun and generate a lot of interest in physics and science but can cost a lot for enough magnets to make anything worth building. I would also stick to the bridge if you don't understand how to do this really well yourself. The concept can be both easy and difficult at the same time. There are also designs for simple electric generators out there that only output a few watts but are fun and demonstrate some good principles of power generation. Your school might be afraid of this though even though it is DC power and relatively harmless at the power levels they generate. If your teaching younger students then try for something simple like kites. If you are talking CAD date then any of the above can be generated, but a simple reduction gear can be a lot more fun. Most 3d CAD software can render the movement of the gears and show the reduction in effect in the output. Hope this helps. PS. Sorry if you are talking about a gathering and doing a presentation which is what everyone above seems to be working towards. I would definately go for the environment in that case, talk about thinks like how it will effect the future. People wont push the government into doing something until they have a reason and if their kids are coming home and asking them why they are hurting the environment. Simple things like an AC adapter for your phone uses electricity all day every day that it is plugged in even if your phone isn't connected to it. If you removed every standby light and every AC adapter from "vampiring" energy then you could close 20 coal fired electrical plants in the US alone. Stuff like that that kids might point out that most folks don't realize.

Answer 3

games and stuff have a jar with each seat number and letter in it and pull some out. the lucky few have to play a game like building towers with balloons or leading their partner around (partner is blindfolded) just things like that what is the assembly on????