January 3rd, 2000                                        "D day"  43 minutes

Objectives:

• To have students reacclimatize to school life after a long winter break by participating in an interactive activity involving a partner.
• To determine how willing and prepared the students are to jump into the subject of clinical psychology by administering a short vocabulary test.

Anticipatory Set:

• Students were asked to prepare for A/B sharing.  Each student was given 40 seconds to describe one point of interest from their winter break.
• Next, students were given 4 minutes to prepare for the vocabulary quiz.

Learning Activity 1:

• Students are given approximately 9 minutes to complete a vocabulary quiz.  Each student could pick at least 5 words/phrases from the packet given to them over the break, and define them in class.

Learning Activity 2:

• Students are instructed to locate a partner on the other side of the room (this ensures that they do not always work with their friend).
• Next, partners are handed a task card that either instructs them to find and prove the existence of some "system" in the room that either has order, or one that is in a "random" state.
• Activity should take up remainder of time.