Fractions, Decimals, and Percents!
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Have students play Go Fish, Memory Games, or online games to practice converting fractions to decimals to percents.
A fun way to review an important math skill.
Author: Barbara Bannister
Online Resource: Quick Freeze a Bubble!
If you blow a bubble in subfreezing air, the water in the bubble freezes very quickly creating a beautiful crystalline globe.
I found gorgeous videos that I hope will fascinate your students.
Online Resource: Quick Freeze Boiling Water
Winter brings very cold weather to many of us. I found videos online that demonstrate a variety of people tossing boiling water into sub freezing air. Amazing crystals form in beautiful collections.
Children can be fascinated watching videos and then language and cooperation skills can be strengthened with a followup discussion of what was observed.
Here are a few resources I’d like to share with you.
Scintillating Shapes – Tangrams
Use seven simple shapes to encourage an exploration of shapes and the relationship a small shape has to a larger shape.
I’ve collected a bunch of free resources to make this easier for you to add this option to your math resources.
Quick Science: Dancing Spaghetti
Pour a can of clear or lightly colored soft drink into a transparent container. Drop in a few pieces of raw pasta.
Initially the pasta sinks to the bottom of the container because each piece is denser than the liquid.
Bubbles of gas attach to the pasta and it slowly rises to the surface.
Your students are pretty interested at this point in just what’s going on!
Poetry for Energy and the Five Senses
Teaching light? Sound? Heat? Five senses?
Here are a few poems from familiar poets you might consider sharing with your students as you teach science.
I chose familiar poets hoping you could find them in your school or local library if you don’t have the poetry book on your shelf.
Online Resource: 3Dman Free Graphics
This is just the ticket if you need a fun image for your classroom decorations or communications with families.
Marco posts a great variety of images at pixabay.com that are FREE and just waiting for you to choose, download, and place to add fun images to your classroom resources.
Quick Science: Model an Earthquake
Just like many earthquakes, you can model the process of building up pressure and then having it released quickly.
Snap your fingers!
The pressure between your fingers builds up and you continue adding pressure until suddenly the force overcomes the friction between your fingers and you snap!
Quick Hint: Collecting Papers
Consider collecting papers in alphabetical order.
Students line up and the first person in line collects all the papers. If a student forgot to put a name on the paper, the collector can gently remind the student.
A different person is assigned as the “paper manager” for each date in a month based on each student’s last name.
This makes it much easier to record grades.
Online Resource: Byrdseed
A resource with a variety of GREAT options designed for your more capable learners.
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