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Lori Jones

Challenger - 1 views

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Grade 6 Grade 5 6-8.RS.1 6-8.RS.3 Challenger Learning Center space technology Earth and Space Sciences Science Engineering and Technology

shared by Lori Jones on 19 Feb 12 - No Cached
    • Lori Jones
      Lori Jones on 19 Feb 12
       
      The Challenger Center also offers Special Needs missions. Lessons are differentiated as students will be assigned to different roles.  This is a very "challenging" endeavor, and requires completion of lessons prior to the visit.
  • Lori Jones on 19 Feb 12
     
    Excellent activity for grades five and up.  "Students work as teams in mission control and aboard a spacecraft as they test their decision making skills and solve problems during this innovative, inquiry based, space-themed science and math simulation." This activity could meet MANY science standards and math standards including the Design Process, The Nature of Science, and Reading for Literacy in Science.  For the purpose of this assignment, I am assigning it to: 6.2.4  With regard to their size, composition, distance from the sun, surface features and ability to support life, compare and contrast the planets of the solar system with one another and with asteroids and comets.  6-8.RS.1:  Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science texts.   6-8 RS.3:  Follow precisely a multi-step procedure when carrying out experiments or taking measurements.
  • Susie Beesley on 21 Feb 12
     
    Roughly every other year, the Challenger Center in Brownsburg gets a grant and invites us to visit for free. Unfortunately for your cohort, we went last year, but I'll invite you back next year if they get another grant. We usually go on a Saturday morning and IT IS AWESOME! I love being in Indianapolis with these fabulous resources available.
Susan Shonle

Animal Smarts - Science Secrets! - Kids' Science Challenge: Fun Educational National Co... - 1 views

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Grade 5-8 5.4.7 Science animal

shared by Susan Shonle on 12 Feb 12 - No Cached
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      Susan Shonle on 12 Feb 12
       
      Extensions: This activity can connect Science to LA using a writing prompt. Adaptations:  Gifted students can write a short essay on how an animal can use a tool to solve a problem.  Teacher would allow time for research (tool-using animals at PBS.org).  ESL & Special Ed students can draw a picture of an animal using a tool to solve a problem.  Teacher would pair up students for the research phase.
  • Susan Shonle on 12 Feb 12
     
    Crow Creativity: 5th Grade / Can you solve a problem as creatively as a crow?  Download PDF 1. Build a tricky tube puzzle to find out if your friends can solve a problem like a crow. A clear plastic tube is best, but a paper towel roll, cut down to about 8 inches, will work too. 2. Make a basket out of tin foil. The basket should be big enough to hold a small cookie. 3. Tear some strips off a roll of duct tape. Lay the roll of tape flat on a table and fit the tube inside the center of the duct tape roll. Then use the duct tape strips to tape the tube in place so that the tube stays upright. Tape along the side. Do not cover the openings of the tube in tape. 4. Put a cookie in your basket and drop the basket into the tube so it goes to the bottom of the tube with the handle facing up. 5. Place about 5 twist ties or a piece of long metal wire next to your tube. 6. Find a friend to solve this problem. Tell your friend that there is a cookie at the bottom of the tube. Your friend can have the cookie but has to get the cookie out of the tube first without lifting up the tube. If you are using a paper towel roll, let your friend look inside the tube to see how it's set up.  Supplies: See Downloadable PDF
  • Susan Shonle on 16 Feb 12
     
    Upper elementary students to middle school students could create a trick tube or similar experiment that a friend or critter (squirrel) has to solve.
Laura Riggins

Factors: A Math Card Game | Education.com - 2 views

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Grade 3 3.OA.6

shared by Laura Riggins on 26 Jan 12 - No Cached
    • Jessica Buell
      Jessica Buell on 26 Jan 12
       
      Great way to intorduce factors
    • Jessica Buell
      Jessica Buell on 28 Jan 12
       
      you can use variation in this game by changing the multiples to an easier number or harder number depending of child's level.
    • Laura Riggins
      Laura Riggins on 01 Feb 12
       
      This would also be easy to use with a multiplication activities in the introduction to division because you can look at division from the reverse and then because students should be familiar with multiplication the basis for division will become easier to manage.
  • Laura Riggins on 26 Jan 12
     
    3.OA.6 Understand division as an unknown-factor problem. For example, find 32 ÷ 8 by finding the number that makes 32 when multiplied by 8.
Susan Shonle

The Golden Mean: Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio | Education.com - 1 views

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Grade 6 6.RP3.a fibonacci ratio spiral golden mean

shared by Susan Shonle on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • In this activity, your child will develop her mathematical thinking and expand her intellectual horizons as she builds a growth spiral - a spiral found in nature that can be predicted by the Fibonacci sequence.
    • Susan Shonle
      Susan Shonle on 31 Jan 12
       
      In this activity, the child will develop her mathematical thinking and expand her intellectual horizons as she builds a growth spiral - a spiral found in nature that can be predicted by the Fibonacci sequence.
    • Susan Shonle
      Susan Shonle on 31 Jan 12
       
      Extensions: Math/History/Art (Leonardo of Pisa: Fibonacci) The Golden Mean Adaptations: ESL will be able to visualize Golden Ratio - proportions of art and architecture.  Special Ed will work in small groups paired with good math students. Teacher will provide completed sample of spiral and objects from nature that show this spiral.
Lori Jones

Place Value- Ideas for Teaching, Resources for Lesson Plans, and Activities for Unit Pl... - 1 views

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Grade 4 place value Numbers and operations in base ten game 4.nbt.2 4.NBT. 3

shared by Lori Jones on 02 Feb 12 - No Cached
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      Lori Jones on 02 Feb 12
       
      This game can be differentiated by grouping students (7 cards, six cards, five cards) and they can earn a certificate when they demonstrate they are ready to move up to a new group.  This is a great way to reinforce skills and also assess students' progress.
    • Lori Jones
      Lori Jones on 02 Feb 12
       
      Game can be modified to include rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, etc.
    • Lori Jones
      Lori Jones on 02 Feb 12
       
      For differentiated learning, have sections of students competing.  Some could compete at the seven card level, others at six, and others at five.  As they "pass" each level, they earn a certificate entitling them to compete at the next level.  Great way to improve skills and assess progress!
  • place value game Posted by:Tonda #62793 Not only do my third graders know place value, they beg to play this game. On long strips of paper I made place value charts, making sure the commas were in place and writing the words (ones, tens, hundreds, etc.) under the blank line where a number will be placed. Laminate. With a partner and a deck of cards the children shuffle the deck and then pass out the predetermined number of cards according to how far you want them to learn place value. Hundred thousands would be 6 cards, millions 7 cards, 10 millions 8 cards, etc. Cards are face down in a pile. Face cards equal 1, aces are 0, and everything else what they say. They are trying to make the largest number possible to win (or smallest). Both players turn over a card at the same time and decide where to place it. Once placed it must stay there....
  • Lori Jones on 02 Feb 12
     
    This is a GREAT game idea to reinforce place value.  FANTASTIC!  Kids love games. Easy and inexpensive to make.  You need paper (laminate finished product) and decks of cards.  Can be independent learning, homework, or station time with students.
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