This is a game where students practice adding and decomposing sums up to 12. The game is for 2 players and requires two six-sided dice, and a 10-Pin Limbo! game sheet.
Twenty great elementary level field day activities/ideas that emphasize fun and team building over skill.
Lesson activity will provide learning activity for a lead-up hockey skill (Striking, long implement). Offensive and defensive strategy, teamwork and sportsmanship are also an important aspect of the lesson.
www.homeschoolshares.com offers a great free downloadable link to ABC exercise cards.
Alphabet Workout
We used first and last names. Every letter is an activity. You could spell answers to review questions, random questions, or vocab words. Possibilities are endless! Work individually or as a group. Make it fit for your curriculum and environment.
This site is great for elementary students to use to reinforce their keyboarding skills with easy-to-play keyboarding games.
Site can be used for free as an individual or on a fee basis for a family/class plan providing the ability to monitor participation.
Using ARIS open-source platform, students create a scavenger hunt/game for district students to explore local community career opportunities. Â
This video allows the teacher and students to have a visual and auditory of what a letter looks like along with its auditory sound. This is great for thos students that are having difficulty learning the letters and sound. It can be stopped at anytime as to not overwhelm a child.
This resource is a full tutorial on the organelles of an animal cell. The online animation includes interaction with the organelles. As you click on the organelles their function and definition pop up along with relevant animations. After completing the organelle tutorial the site offers an animal cell organelle game to check a student's understanding along with a quiz.
This resource could be used as a precursor to direct instruction allowing student's to explore the organelles and their function prior to a formal teacher led lesson. This could also supplement students who may have been absent during the organelle lesson or are in need of further individualized instruction on the organelles. This tutorial could also be used as a culminating review for students to check their understanding of the organelles, their function, location and definition.
Farming ants might sound like a crazy thing to do unless you might like to eat chocolate covered ants. It turns out we can learn a lot from ants and the best way is to build your own ant farm.
Scoring sheet to use during an archery unit. The students can play the game cricket much like the dart game cricket. The students will need to shoot 3 arrows per round and the goal is to hit all the rings (10) 3 times. This is usually done as a group effort and the 1st team to hit all the rings 3xs wins.
AtomTouch is a molecular simulation app, created through a partnership between UW MRSEC and Field Day Lab, that allows learners to explore principles of thermodynamics and molecular dynamics in a tactile, exploratory way.
This is a great cooperative activity that allows students to meet and greet one another.
Banzai is a personal financial literacy tool in which students work through real life scenarios and deposit and spend their money with aid of "jars" representing budgeted money. It helps students understand and plan a budget.
Can be used as a whole class warm-up. Integrats math. Can be easily modified.
In this online game, students will be building numbers using Base 10 blocks. Students decide if they want to select ones, tens, or hundreds. Students also get to choose if they want to read the number, listen to the number, or if they want to count the blocks given and deterine the number being represented.
Find the right vehicles for a new movie from the America on the Move collection, then watch the movie that you’ve created on the big screen. See how much you know about the history of transportation with the interactive games in this online collection. You can find information, artifacts and photographs in the collection as well.
This lesson uses familiar words from The Gingerbread Man to help early readers learn letter–sound correspondence. Students begin with a teacher-conducted shared reading of the story. As students listen, they read the words in the refrain along with the teacher. After the third hearing of the story, students choose their favorite words from the story and identify the sounds that the letters make in the words. Students conclude the lesson by using the newly learned words in an online story of their own creation. To further reinforce letter-sound correspondence, students play an online interactive Picture Match game.
In this online game, learners test their knowledge of human anatomy. Learners are presented a mystery image of a body part and use their mouse to select the proper body part from a full size anatomical model (known as "Jerome"). Learners try to match all 10 body parts correctly. Use this activity to review human anatomy and/or introduce learners to the use of anatomical models.
Game where students control each branch of government. Students will introduce a presidential agenda, craft laws in Congress, and review legal challenges to laws. This includes an extension pack for teachers to assign to students.