College Match
Your older brother or sister is trying to decide on a university or college. Your mom has found five colleges/universities she thinks will interest your sibling. She’s also found facts about each college/university. She has asked for your help, first to decorate a box for each college/university and secondly to categorize the facts in the appropriate box. Unfortunately, before she could direct you how to decorate the boxes and where to place the facts, she was called to work on an emergency. To fulfill your mom’s request you must research the colleges and universities using various Sandlapper magazines and possibly the internet. It’s up to you to decorate and pack the box before your mom returns and help your brother or sister make a decision about where they might like to attend school.
Lesson Created By: Lisa Ray
Lesson Partners: ETV Education
Grade(s):
- 8
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Lesson Progression
- Place students in five groups.
- Give each group a shoe box and a school.
- Have students decorate their box using information they’ve researched using the internet.
- Now give each group sentence strips of facts on the various schools as well as one bonus question.
- Have students use clues from the text of the Sandlapper Magazine to determine where facts belong.
- Have students place the facts in the appropriate box.
- Remind students that some of their facts will be placed in boxes in other groups.
- The first group to correctly place their facts and answer the bonus question wins the “College Match” game.
Teacher Notes
Bonus questions:
- What is a cistern?
- What do the letters HBCU stand for?
- What is meant by a “bridge” program?
- What would be done at a biotech center?
- Define the term visionary? Why would a college choose to include it in their motto?
If you teach more than one class of students, bonus points could be awarded for the “best” box as judged by students in other classes. Students could also try to stump students in other groups by creating new facts they learn as they read and study the Sandlapper articles.
Sandlapper Answer Key
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Assessments
College Box Rubric – This works best when allowing students from other classes to judge. Assign each box a number so that students are judging the work, not the students that complete the work.
Box # ___________
Scale: (1) not at all, (2) somewhat, (3) to a considerable extent, (4) definitely
____ Box focuses on specific college
____ Box makes an obvious statement about what makes the college/university unique
____ Box design has pleasing colors and design scheme – it is neat and well done
____ This box makes me want to learn more about this college/university
____Total points awarded this box