I am suppose to do a cause and effect lesson soon at my internship. Does anyone know any fun activities? I want to do something that allows the children to visualize what cause and effect really is.

[apm]

What grade will you be teaching?

Cause and effect is always really hard for my ESE students to get. They know that one event will cause another one to happen, but to identify the cause and then identify the effect is hard.

[NDteacher]

I use the Laura Numeroff books like If You Give a Pig a Pancake to teach cause and effect. My kids like it and it shows how something can be both a cause and an effect.

[tammynj]

I also like to read "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" for cause and effect. (We also talk about how Alexander causes some of his own effects, but not all of them).

Maybe you could do a really simple science experiment, and have the kids write down the causes/effects from that.

[linda2671]

Tops and Bottoms is another book that is good for teaching cause and effect.

[javamomma]

I read "Hooway For Wodney Wodent"
It was full of cause and effect situations.
Then I had my students create some effects of their own to go with my causes I had written on sentence strips. The next day we hit this high points again and did the same sentence strip activity this time with effects written on them and the students had to come up with a cause.

[mein10]

This is the coolest site!! You can find all sorts of interactive things....they have one for cause and effect....you could use a smartboard...sooooo coool. ReadWriteThink.com

Check it out!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!

[Mama B]

I am a Reader's theater nut. I use them for content and teaching difficult concepts.

If you have several days, the readers theater called "It Wasn't My Fault" might be helpful. I used it as a guided reading lesson the first day and assigned parts-- (yes I had two groups working on the same script.) and I allowed them to practice for 10 minutes every day. On the third day we used a Flow map to show the cuases and effect with in the script. I actually gave an assessment on the actual reader's theater asking students to tell what the effects or causes of specific events in the script. When I did this specific activity, I spent the majority of the week integrating cuase and effect in my science activities, read-alouds and in social studies. ( We were doing American Revolution at the time) I made sure I used cause and effect charts with each subject so they were familiar with the graphic organizer, and hopefully they could visualize when something occured. Hope that helps!

Wow! Thanks for all the input! I really like some of the books you suggested!

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