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Identify the digits students will use by handing demo digit cards to selected students (e.g. 3, 5, 8). Students at desks should take these same digits from their card decks. Give directions for students to form a number to meet specific criteria. Students in front rearrange themselves to build a number. Students at desks arrange digit cards to build a number to satisfy the conditions. Build the largest number you can. Build the smallest number you can. Build a number less than 800. Build a number greater than 800. Build a number that is between 300 and 500. Build a different number that is between 300 and 500. Repeat with different digits and different directions. 2.NBT.3 Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Sticky Note: This could be enriched by having students call out directions and do as group table activities as a review game before a test

Core Standard: Provide evidence that heat and electricity are forms of energy. (4.1.1, 4.1.2) Core Standard: Design and assemble electric circuits that provide a means of transferring energy from one form or place to another. (4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5)

Print all pages on cardstock and laminate. Students use pattern blocks to recreate the images. K.G.6: Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. Sticky Note: This would be great to use in an ELL classroom as a way of using vocabulary such as "above", "below" etc and color so that it becomes a following the instructions game where the person is telling you where to put your pattern block. In this case the picture would be the key and the child could make the shape on a blank table.

This is a great way to spice up a common simple experiment demonstrating the three forms of water.

Children are formed into groups to 'invent' a pretend machine that smashes marshmallows. Each child plays the role of a cog or part of the machine to move the marshmallow along. Children then read the story Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, a machine that digs its way to a happy ending, and recognize how technological devices affect our lives.

Forming a hypothesis about Blubber

This is a great activity that could be used as early as grade K. This can really help young students grasp a full awareness of shapes and how they are formed. 

I could not hammer that many nails without getting frustrated. To me, it's worth it to buy geobards because it's hard to get the spacing perfect and keep the nails straight and not have them pop out.

Using a geoboard is fun, but making one from scratch is frustrating! I cannot hammer that many nails in and keep them straight and evenly spaced. It is definitely worth it to me to BUY geoboards instead of trying to make my own.

Students can watch and observe the growth of crystals in this experiment. This investigation can be done as whole class or in groups.

A simple activity that is fun and competitive and can generate a lot of data for data analysis practice.

Students work in pairs, battling against one another for this card game. Each person turns over one card at a time. Red cards represent negative numbers, and black cards represent positive numbers. The person with the highest valued card is the winner for that round. The student that accumulates the most cards (when each player is out of cards) is the winner!

This is a fun activity in which students must understand place value to the hundred millions.  In this activity students hide their recording sheets and draw a number.  The student who draws a number must announce which place value he or she put that digit.  Then, the other partner must copy that down.  Each partner alternates the plays until they have filled in each place value.  At the end, the teams must see if their numbers match and they will score accordingly. This game forces both partners to be working at all times so not just one person is doing all the work!

Math baseball game that helps students practice multiplication facts with a partner. Played with dice and a game board.

Students go outside to measure the wind with objects found around the house. This activity would be good for a small group of students and an adult.

After learning a little about friction students can try this building activity to learn how to get around friction.