P Y2 Rock, paper, scissors new

Ākonga will take turns playing this chance-based game that incorporates key vocabulary while anticipating outcomes. They need to play the game several times before undertaking statistical thinking.

This activity explores the following key ideas: 

• Engage in chance-based investigations about games and everyday situations to:
  – identify possible outcomes
  – collect and record data
  – create visualisations for frequencies of outcomes (e.g., lists, picture, graphs)
  – describe what these data visualisations show
  – answer chance-based investigative questions
  – notice variations in outcomes 

Resources

• Y2 Rock, paper, scissors teaching notes
• How to play Rock, paper, scissors video to show your class
• If you wish to play the alternative version ‘toka, pepa, kuti’ using whole body movements of hands up for ‘pepa’, hands on hips for toka and hands out in front of you for kuti then you need to make sure the class is familiar with this version of the game.