Word Clouds in the Health/PE/FCS Classrooms

Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom - by Michael Gorman 

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Health and PE and Family and Consumer Sciences

1. Have students keep food journal of what they eat for a week. If they eat French fires three times they record that. They then enter their entire journal entry being sure to give a number value in the advanced more or pasting the word the correct number of times. They should end up with a word cloud of their diet
2. Same as above only now assign each food a color to represent a food group. Use the advanced color mode to color code each food group.
3. Students create a word cloud from a recipe.
4. Students create a word cloud of the ingredients found in a product. Students may even be able to show scale of amount of product or color code nutritional information.
5. Students create a word cloud of items found in different rooms of a house.
6. Students study a family budget and create a word cloud making budget items in proportion to the cost applicable to each item.
7. Students create a word cloud of different occupations to a related field.
8. Students create a word cloud relating to a specific sport.
9. Students make a word cloud of the different human body systems. In groups students work individually on a specific system word cloud and then combine with partners for the total of all the systems. Each system should be in its own color. Use advanced tool for colors.
10. Students make word clouds to represent different diseases, drugs, and medicines.
11. Students create a word cloud to illustrate their favorite athletic personalities and do not include the name. They then present word cloud to class and students try to guess. Finish by including their word cloud as part of a poster with a picture of athlete, name of athlete, and paragraph about him/her.
12. Have students come up with a unique way to display a word cloud in regards to fitness and/or diet.