Looking for a way to bring March madness into the classroom? Check out these ideas for classroom March madness activities!
These March Madness classroom activities are easy ways to create fun and engaging themed lessons all month long!
Looking for activities to celebrate March Madness in your classroom? Check out these engaging activity ideas!
March madness in the classroom can be so engaging and fun for your students! Practice math, reading, and more with these low prep activities!
Planning March Book Madness in 2021?! Let me help you choose books, engage students, and plan activities! Choose books...
Get ready for some amazing March Madness reading ideas! March Madness isn't just reserved for basketball fans; it's the perfect time to add some excitement into your upper elementary classroom with a literary twist! This season, let's score big on reading fun and engagement with our March Madness Reading Activities for 4th grade. We've curated a slam-dunk list of 25 March Madness reading ideas that will turn your classroom into a literary arena, where books compete for the top spot, characters take center stage, and creativity soars.
March is known as the month of brackets. In recent years, tournament style book battles have been adopted by libraries and cl...
March madness in the classroom can be EPIC and so much fun! With these rigorous March Madness activities your students will be so engaged!
March Madness meets SEL tools/strategies for self-regulation while in the classroom. Each student has the chance to reflect on what tools/strategies are helpful and available to them throughout the school day. If using the Zones language - Which tool puts them in the green zone, ready to learn?Enjoy...
The month of March means MARCH MADNESS! This version is about music from different decades, with a total of 16 songs from 8 different decades. Each slide has a little description of the song that you can read to your students before playing the video. Play this game in one music class (it takes about 30-40 minutes) or across multiple weeks! You can really make it work for you and your students depending on class sizes, time spent on each song, and how long you see your students for. There are 2 different platforms you can use: Google Slides & Canva. The Google Slides version is not editable (except for where you can type the names on the winning songs) but the Canva version comes with both an editable and non-editable slideshow. I hope you and your students have fun playing Music March Madness! :)
How to implement March Mathness-a tournament-style, basketball-themed game to motivate students with basketball in math class.
Hello, friends! It's Christmas break for me and I'm taking a few minutes to plan ahead for the new year! Last year our first graders hosted a Tournament of Books and it was a huge success so we're getting ready to host one again this year! The first thing I did was put up this huge bracket in the main hallway of our school. It generated a ton of buzz around the school, especially before we shared any details about what we were actually planning! The Brown Bag Teacher has bracket printables free on Teachers Pay Teachers. They are perfect for getting your bracket ready. To build the bracket, I started from the middle and worked out on each side, using black duct tape for the lines. It wasn't a quick project, but it turned out perfectly! Once all the kiddos were making guesses about my giant hallways display, we collected nominations. Each first grader nominated a favorite book, which gave us about 70 nominees. It was surprisingly easily to narrow them down to 16 choices for our bracket since we had lots and lots of the same choices, plus a few that were easy to toss (a few guided reading titles made it into the mix haha). Once we filled in our top 16 books, the students filled out their own brackets. I printed blank brackets from Print Your Own Brackets and wrote in our selections. Then, we carefully went through the choices and the students filled in a winner for each match up. This also helped them to understand how the bracket itself worked and promoted lots of debate about their favorites! Now that we had our top 16 choices, everyone needed to make sure they read the books! We read many of the nominees aloud to our classes, but we also used QR codes with iPads in our listening centers to make the books accessable to all our students. Then, each week, we conducted a vote. We created a Google Form with the choices and then posted a QR code that linked to the form. Students used iPads to scan the QR code then enter their choices. It was quick for them to complete and easy for us since we didn't need to prepare or count 70 paper ballots each week! Even though only our first graders were voting, the whole school was eager to see who the winner would be and looked forward to seeing the winners each week! Our tournament came down to a Crayon vs Crayon final! The Day the Crayons Came Back was the winner, "because it has glow in the dark!" and two of my kiddos actually managed perfect brackets! This year we're planning further ahead, so the whole school is getting involved! Have you ever hosted a Tournament of Books? I'd love to hear about it in the comments!
A few weeks ago I had the idea to incorporate sports into a vocabulary review. Many of my students play basketball on a team and/or play at recess, so I incorporated basketball into our review. My son received this over the door basketball set for Christmas so we brought it to school one day. He told me to "make sure they don't break it, but you CAN show them how to dunk it." Although I didn't share my dunking skills, my fifth graders LOVED this! I knew they'd notice the goal as soon as they walked in so I wrote a little message beside the board: "Are you ready for vocabulary basketball?" It was a fun way to review vocabulary in an engaging way. We split into two teams. I had the vocabulary words written on the board and I'd call out definitions. If they told me the correct word, they earned 1 point for their team. Then, they could earn 2 points or 3 points by making a basket. I had ribbon on the floor to show what would count as 2 points vs. 3 points. They had a BLAST! Most of our vocabulary words come from our read alouds, but most of the words in this unit were student generated. I kept a sheet of paper that students could add words to as they read independently. If they found a word they didn't know or one that they thought would be a good vocabulary word, they could write it down. Vocabulary review - basketball style - was a HIT!
Check out this blog post to see ways you can create a basketball room transformation in your classroom! Includes activities, books, and more!
March is here, and I am looking forward to warmer temperatures as well as spring STEM fun! The following are some of my favorite March STEM activities for elementary students.
My students love to express opinions. I play a simple game in which we review any vocabulary by marking one side of the room as 'Me encanta' and the other as 'No me gusta.' I just call out words (could be foods, hobbies, classes-- anything!) and they move to the side of the room that
March madness in the classroom can be EPIC and so much fun! With these rigorous March Madness activities your students will be so engaged!
March is here, and I am looking forward to warmer temperatures as well as spring STEM fun! The following are some of my favorite March STEM activities for elementary students.
65+ slides on how to transform your classroom into an a Basketball/March Madness adventure OVERNIGHT! Everything you need for an addition and subtraction themed math day! Detailed directions with pictures and links to purchase supplies are provided.
Happy March! Everyone's making their March Madness brackets, why not channel some of that excitement towards music history and appreciation? I got this idea
Poetry March Madness offers us a chance to expose students to a wide variety of BIPOC voices and build community with one another.
Hello, friends! It's Christmas break for me and I'm taking a few minutes to plan ahead for the new year! Last year our first graders hosted a Tournament of Books and it was a huge success so we're getting ready to host one again this year! The first thing I did was put up this huge bracket in the main hallway of our school. It generated a ton of buzz around the school, especially before we shared any details about what we were actually planning! The Brown Bag Teacher has bracket printables free on Teachers Pay Teachers. They are perfect for getting your bracket ready. To build the bracket, I started from the middle and worked out on each side, using black duct tape for the lines. It wasn't a quick project, but it turned out perfectly! Once all the kiddos were making guesses about my giant hallways display, we collected nominations. Each first grader nominated a favorite book, which gave us about 70 nominees. It was surprisingly easily to narrow them down to 16 choices for our bracket since we had lots and lots of the same choices, plus a few that were easy to toss (a few guided reading titles made it into the mix haha). Once we filled in our top 16 books, the students filled out their own brackets. I printed blank brackets from Print Your Own Brackets and wrote in our selections. Then, we carefully went through the choices and the students filled in a winner for each match up. This also helped them to understand how the bracket itself worked and promoted lots of debate about their favorites! Now that we had our top 16 choices, everyone needed to make sure they read the books! We read many of the nominees aloud to our classes, but we also used QR codes with iPads in our listening centers to make the books accessable to all our students. Then, each week, we conducted a vote. We created a Google Form with the choices and then posted a QR code that linked to the form. Students used iPads to scan the QR code then enter their choices. It was quick for them to complete and easy for us since we didn't need to prepare or count 70 paper ballots each week! Even though only our first graders were voting, the whole school was eager to see who the winner would be and looked forward to seeing the winners each week! Our tournament came down to a Crayon vs Crayon final! The Day the Crayons Came Back was the winner, "because it has glow in the dark!" and two of my kiddos actually managed perfect brackets! This year we're planning further ahead, so the whole school is getting involved! Have you ever hosted a Tournament of Books? I'd love to hear about it in the comments!
March is here, and I am looking forward to warmer temperatures as well as spring STEM fun! The following are some of my favorite March STEM activities for elementary students.
Combining STEM and Basketball in Elementary Classrooms Get ready to bring the excitement of the Summer Olympics into your classroom with a basketball themed STEM challenge! Basketball is not just a sport; it's an exciting avenue for introducing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering
You found the perfect March Basketball math activity for practicing comparing fractions with unlike denominators! Your students will LOVE to practice comparing fractions with this solve the room activity. Students will find the problems around the room, solve the problem, then write the answers on their recording sheets.
Music March Madness: exploring musical genres. Organized Chaos. Song list and logistics for organizing a "march madness" bracket of songs. Perfect to use with Music In Our Schools Month or to play music over the morning announcements.
It is March, which means spring break is on the horizon and 4th quarter has just begun. And of course, state testing will be here ASAP. We have worked hard to get to this point in the school year with so many standards being covered. However, this is important stretch to pause, reflect, and determine what ELA test prep ideas will be the most impactful.
Engaging STEM Activities, Math resources, and Escape Rooms will help fill up your month of March! As teachers, we know the longest month of the year is March. I know many of you think it is January or May. But I think it's March. March often brings Spring Break, which is typically the
You know it's going to be a fun Friday when you start with materials like this... a good book and a game! I decided to integrate Salt in His Shoes with a
Check out our basketball headbands for elementary students! They're super simple and fun, letting kids cut and paste to make their own. These headbands are a great way to make celebrating MarchMadness exciting. Perfect for classroom activities or any other celebrations to maximize learning!
Poetry March Madness offers us a chance to expose students to a wide variety of BIPOC voices and build community with one another.
Fun and engaging ideas to incorporate the March Madness tournament into your middle school math classroom.
Bring the madness to your classroom this March! Celebrate March Madness with reading and basketball by increasing student engagement in reading while keeping track of the NCAA March Madness Basketball tournament! I love incorporating March Madness into my classroom and fostering a love of reading. During the month of March, students will celebrate basketball and reading with a March Madness reading raffle challenge! Students will participate in a fun, friendly competition through reading and NCAA team selections. The more the students read the more raffle tickets they earn to be entered into a weekly raffle to earn prizes. Students will keep track of their reading minutes at home with a reading log and have a parent/adult sign their log each night. The following day, they will be given raffle tickets based on the amount of time they spent reading. At the end of the week, collect all the student tickets to hold a raffle to earn prizes and rewards! WANT TO MAKE IT COLLABORATIVE? Break students up into teams and use the included bracket to match student teams up against one another. Students will use their collective total pages or minutes from the week in order to advance to the next round. The teams with the higher total will move on to the following round of the bracket to determine the ultimate reading champion! BONUS: Have students select a NCAA team of their choice each week to win their designated game. If the team they choose wins, they will receive 5 extra raffle tickets for the week! THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES: An editable letter to send home to families explaining the reading competition Weekly logs to keep track of minutes OPTIONS INCLUDE: Monday-Thursday Monday-Friday Monday-Sunday Class leader board to keep track of weekly selected NCAA teams Raffle tickets TRY THIS! Have students complete the reading challenge in teams against one another in class! Choose to have students read based on minutes or pages and whoever reads the most advances to the next round! All files are fully editable to customize the reading raffle to your classroom! Happy Learning! ☺ ★ LET'S BE FRIENDS! Follow me on Instagram! @teachingwithapoint ★ ✩ Any questions? E-mail me! ✩ [email protected] ✩★ CHECK-OUT MY OTHER MARCH RESOURCES ★✩ March | St. Patrick's Day | Writing Bulletin Board March St. Patrick's Day Posters | Class Decor | Bulletin Board March Staff Morale | Sunshine Committee Desk Notes - March Themed | Volume VI | Target Adhesive Labels
Grade Levels K - 2nd Subjects English Language Arts, Science, Engineering Standards (see Oklahoma equivalents) NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2 NGSS 3-5-ETS1-1 NGSS 3-5-ETS1-3 NGSS K-2-ETS1-1 NGSS K-2-ETS1-3 Resource Type Activities, Fun Stuff, Cooperative Learning Formats Included PDF Pages 68 pages
Why is Project-Based Learning Important? As educators, we all know that having students passively learn facts and information and then regurgitating those facts for a test or quiz is not sufficient. It does not prepare our students for the real world. Instead, we need to allow our students opportunities to LEARN BY DOING. Project-based learning...
March Mammal Madness is an engaging classroom activity! Read the post to learn how I use March Mammal Madness in the classroom.
These March Madness classroom activities are easy ways to create fun and engaging themed lessons all month long!
March Madness is around the corner and your students will love these basketball-themed activities for speech therapy!
