state standard: 2.3.1

state standard: 1.3.2 Great way to keep kids interested over a long period of time. The kids are excited to see what their biome is doing/ how things are frowing. You can explain that everything the plant needs to grow is in the biome. A enrichment idea off this activity would be to try and simulate the different conditions in each biome to an enviornment that is in our world (desert vs rainforest) and see how that affects each biome.

state standard: 3.2.6 Great activity to show where the air comes from. It can be connected with earth week, or ways to help the earth. This is a great way to explain and show photosynthysis in action.

state stndard: 5.4.2 This would be a great activity to do around earth day. As finding ways to help the enviornment become more necessary, this idea of recycling paper is quite important.

state standard: 2.1.6 This game is another way to make connections with something that they have done and probably enjoy doing. An extension of this activity would be fro the kids to graph their times on a big class graph you could use different sizes of string to see what affect that might have on the swing times.

This is a great activity to talk bout simple machines and what they are. Everybody in the primary grades we enjoys the see-saw, so having an activity using a see-saw for a differentis attention getting. We can focus on key terms of this simple mahine and also use the see-saw as a weighing machine.

state standard: 2.3.1 This activity is a great activity for showing the way and which water is transported in living things. A bit of enrichment in this activity could be to talk about the nutritional aspects of these vegetables that grow from the land.

state standard: 1.1.2 Very simple and hands on activity for the first graders. The good thing about this activity is that you can use pictures with all the words. Not all first graders are able to read all the words, having pictures can be helpful for the low ability students as well as the ESL students.

state standard: 2.1.7 Doesn't the title of the activity say it all, dancing raisens. Just telling the 2nd graders about what you are planning on doing is going to grab their attention. It is also exciting for them to do activities with things that they know.

state standard: 3.1.1 This is an activity that has a lot of depth to it. This is a good opportunity to establish groups that have a variety of ability levels in it. It may be an actiity that couldbe done as a whole class activity. Vibrations and how sounds are transmitted and heard is something that students are fascinated by.

state standard: 4.1.4 This activity specifically hits an state standard. This is a really good activity because it does not take a lot of time to set up and do, and the materials are real easy to come by. This activity has extensions to it that can be used for those who may need some enrichment.

At a young age, something that they can visibly see will catch their eye. It is a simple activity that has a real world application. I would use this less as a standard teaching opportunity and more for teaching the scientific process because of the simplicity of the experiment.

state standard: 5.1.4 This activity may not exactly fit the bill for a state standard, but this is sure to be an activity that will get students attention. You could use this activity as a reward for good behavior or good work ethics from the entire class.

Really neat experiment for the kids to see and learn about the molecules being more spread out and moving more quickly and violently. This movement of molecules causes the balloon to expand.

CCS: 2.NBT.5 Great game for reviewing and practicing addition skills, but incorporates some reasoning and logical thinking skills as well.

CCS: 4.OA.3 This is a fun way for the kids to practice multiplication facts. This game can be changed for some of the struggling students by having one dice remain constant (one die is always a 3, work on multiplication facts with the number 3).

6.SP.1 This game is a realy good way to connect social studies and math. You could also have them do state capitals as well. Lots of options.

CCS: 3.NF.1 Really fun and active way to make learnin fun. By allowing them to shoot paper wods into the trash can, chart the makes and misses, and then compute the data into fractions, we can get them interested and engaged in a topic that can be intimidating to some kids.

CCS: 3.MD.5 & 8 This activity will really show the difference in perimeter and area in a very hands on way. It really shows what "area" really is.