Human Machine

Objective: To make a machine with students acting out machine parts.

1. Have students think of a machine to make:
ex. dog cleaning machine
pancake machine
toy machine
pizza machine
jewelry machine
and so on....

2. Choose one student to start, student then must make one repetitive movt. and sound (ex. moving hands up and down while saying "beep beep"). Then have another student add on the the machine, (ex. they put one hand on previous person's shoulder and move their legs up and downs while saying "boing boing")
each student adds on the person before them (must be involved with the other person's movt somehow). This activity sounds weird but give it a try. I did it with 6th and 7th and they really liked it, they wanted to do it again and again.

Variation- Then to make it more interesting, I split the class into 2 groups and they both competed to see which team could make the best machine.