I bought one of these anti-tip kits to secure a tall bookcase to the wall. I like the fact that you only need one cable to secure up to 400lbs of furniture, and that the flexibility in the cable means you don't have to be as precise in your installation as with, say, an angle bracket. It also allows you to move the furniture a tiny amount without disconnecting the cable. You can also position the wall bracket below the top of furniture to help hide it from view, and you can easily disconnect the cable if you need to move the furniture to a new location.
Three caveats: First, as one reviewer points out, the cable is only about 4 inches long; the picture is deceiving. So your furniture needs to be close to the wall. I think the reason for this is to limit how far the furniture can tip before the cable catches it. Second, the bracket that attaches to the furniture needs to attach to either solid wood or thick particle board; I'd suggest at least 1" thick minimum. And if attaching to particle board, you have to attach to the wide, flat side, not the narrower "edge" of the board. The instructions are very specific about that. Third, the wall bracket needs to mount directly to a stud. You could use strong toggle bolts as one reviewer mentions, but that will limit your protection to the strength of the toggle bolts. Please don't use hollow wall anchors - they aren't strong enough.
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It may be a game played in the classroom for years, but these days more and more teachers are using more kid-friendly alternatives to Hangman because, well &#; it can be offensive.
If your first thought was &#;What? Kids have played Hangman for generations,&#; you&#;re right. Not only was the spelling word game played on blackboards for years, it was even developed into a Milton Bradley board game back in the s with Scrabble-like tiles. Hangman has a long history in education as a brain break and learning game &#; but that doesn&#;t mean it hasn&#;t had an effect.
The teachers of Teach Starter sat down to talk to teachers who have ditched Hangman for more kid-friendly alternatives to find out why. We&#;ve also pulled together some of our favorite options to substitute in your classroom!
There&#;s no doubt about it, this game definitely had dark beginnings. It is believed it was once played when a prisoner was facing the death penalty back in the 17th century. It was called the &#;Rite of Words and Life.&#; Without going into too much detail, you can kind of guess how it once played out.
We&#;ve been tracking the trend of teachers moving away from the game in their own classrooms, and we were curious. So we asked some teachers in the Teach Starter community if they found &#;hangman&#; offensive and if they would play it in their classroom.
Here&#;s what some of them said:
So, many teachers didn&#;t necessarily find the game offensive, but they were more concerned about the effect of playing the game with some students in their class and whether it triggered certain emotions.
But we didn&#;t stop there. We have also dug into the history of the game.
It turns out it goes even deeper than that. Some people in the educational space (and beyond) have compared Hangman in particular to lynching &#; violent and often public acts perpetrated against Black Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries.
As Michigan teacher Lois Beardslee &#; whos is Native American &#; says of the practice of using Hangman as a spelling game when considering the atrocities that the Black community faced,
&#;Some underlying, unspoken norm seems to suggest that it&#;s fine for a children&#;s game to feature a lynching. Of course, the dead person isn&#;t really part of the game &#; nor is the historic context of lynching. It&#;s just there, part of the silent, implicit curriculum that normalizes such deaths or makes them invisible.&#;
With those concerns in mind, why not check out these super-engaging alternatives to Hangman? You never know; your kids may enjoy them a little more&#;
You&#;ll notice with any of these alternatives to Hangman, the premise of the game is exactly the same &#; you&#;re picking a word and putting a dash for each letter in the word.
Each time a player picks a letter that is not in the word, there&#;s a consequence.
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We won&#;t pretend we aren&#;t biased about the appeal of the Disappearing Ice Cream Sundae game. Created by our teacher team, this interactive game challenges students to ensure the delicious ice cream doesn&#;t slowly disappear before their eyes! Words included in the initial download include:
Don&#;t forget to download the blank option so you can add in your own words that may be more suitable for the age of your students. You can also upload the PowerPoint to your Google Drive and turn it into the Google Slides format to integrate with your Google Classroom!
The point of this fun Hangman alternative is for kids to save the cheese from the mouse while guessing the word.
Here&#;s how to play:
It&#;s time to blast off with a space-themed version of the game.
Here&#;s how to play:
Not terribly artistic? Download this simple rocketship template to trace!
Just like the disappearing ice cream sundae, the disappearing snowman is an interactive PowerPoint that students can play again and again as a fun brain break or indoor recess activity.
The only difference? This is a frosty winter version that can be played all year long as a fun hangman alternative!
Another fun option to move away from playing Hangman for spelling word practice is drawing a web and then a simple spider hanging from or in the spider web.
There are a few different forms that we like to take with this game:
The option you choose really depends on the age of your students, the length of the words you are using, and how many incorrect guesses you are going to allow!
Yup, the game that&#;s swept social media has ended up in the classroom too &#; see how teachers are using Wordle-type games to get kids excited about spelling and vocabulary!
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