This moon craft is great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or older kids. It's a great art extension during a space theme in the classroom.
This moon craft is great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or older kids. It's a great art extension during a space theme in the classroom.
Moving on from beach week to SPACE WEEK! Piper is newly obsessed with all things Space so I’m really excited to do all of these activities with her and Flora over the next week or so! You can check out all of the beach week activities here! Supplies: Most supplies are linked in the Amazon […]
Learn the tips and tricks of how to make string art EASILY!! this is a fun rainbow heart string art project great for kids and teens and adults alike!
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Here's the Flying Machine STEM Challenge: Using a list of supplies, STEM teams must design and build a flying machine. Using theirknowledge of the Laws of Motion and 4 Forces of Flight, students must create ainnovative machine that applies those laws and forces. STEM teams have 3 trials to testtheir flying machines.
By now, you all know that I love teaching Social Studies, so it should come as no surprise that when I am teaching other subjects, I find any way I can to throw a little historical connection in. We are now studying about the 13 colonies. We are also doing both geometry and fractions in math. How on earth do I combine the two??? Colonial Quilts! Gorgeous, eh? I am seriously over the moon about how this project turned out. I can't stop looking at it. (the picture above isn't the 100% final product...those loose ends have since been cut off for the end project) So here is what we did. During our social studies block, we read a bunch of books about colonial times, focusing specifically on daily life. After showing the students a few examples of quilts, we brainstormed the qualities they noticed in the quilts themselves (many of them were symmetrical, bright, had repeating patterns, etc...) I then had the students create a 20 cm x 20 cm square (we have cm graph paper available at school). Choosing either 2, 4, or 5 colors, the students created a square that had at least one triangle, quadrilateral, was bright, and symmetrical. During math, we are focusing on area of quadrilaterals and triangles, as well as fractions, decimals and percents. Since they had this knowledge under their belt, it made the actual math portion of this project a *bit* easier. Don't get me wrong, it was still tricky, but just challenging enough, without being impossible. Depending upon how many colors the students chose, I gave them a recording sheet to do their work. They first needed to count the number of squares that took up each color....a HUGE challenge, since there were 400 squares! The triangles were tricky, but I modeled extensively how to count the portion of the square that took up each color. Once that was done, the students created fractions, simplified them, then figured out the decimal and percent of each individual color that was on the quilt square. Click the picture for recording sheets The students then found the area of one or two of their triangles, followed by the area of one or two of their quadrilaterals. I then laminated the individual squares and put the quilt together using duct tape. I recommend doing this on tile...not wood floors, as the tape will stick to it (I found this out the hard way :( ) Then, pull it up (slowly and carefully), attach it to paper on the back so the tape doesn't stick to anything else, and viola, you have your quilt. So there you have it. A social studies/math connection....that produces and AWESOME final product :) And just in case, here is the duct tape I used. I bought two rolls, which worked out well for the entire quilt of 30 squares.
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Are your kids obsessed with super heroes? Here is a quick and easy printable that will keep them entertained for a bit without any screens! Captain America and Spiderman are a pretty big deal, and your child will enjoy completing the drawing and experiencing how hard it is for something to have perfect symmetry. These sheets are perfect for road trips, waiting rooms, a leisurely activity to complete in the afternoons, to take with you when you go camping, or to use rolled up with an attached crayon or pencil as a party favor. This would even be a fun
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Do you remember the ipad of the 80’s? Lacing Cards. You know the kind right? Well this project is like that, only its really cute and something that you actually will want to hang
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