Group items matching

in title, tags, annotations or url

2.OA.2 "Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2 By end of Grade 2, know from memory sums all of two one-digit numbers." This game could be modified for gifted students by using more number cards, and modifying the goal. The goal for these students could be to get cards that total 20, rather than 10. This game could also be used for older age groups by having them play with negative and positive numbers. 

The highlighted worksheet is Blubber Experiment.  It is a free download I believe.  It goes with the Polar Bear Blubber activity I found on another website.

This activity has a natural connection to a science lesson about how our senses and nerves work to create reactions.  The teacher can require different forms of data analysis based on the students' skill level.  Simple min/max to averages and standard deviation are available.

This would be a great activity to cross with a science unit.  It might work better in groups because of the number of objects to manage and carry around.

Additionally making groups in a mindful way would allow for accommodation for children with exceptional needs.

This could easily be adapted to round to any place value.  Could also be done in the gym on a rainy day.

By carefully choosing the cards that go into a deck you could differentiate this game for high/low skill with fractions. Additionally you could make one deck of numerators and another deck of denominators.

This activity can be used as a language development activity for ELL students. You can ask them to describe the shapes and colors of the nuts and bolts. ELL students can use their visual strengths to excel in sorting activities such as this one.

This would be a great activity for math tubs. Make sure not to include anything that could be sharp or a danger to a 5 or 6 year old student!

K.MD.3 "Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count."

Extension: This activity can connect math with social studies - use fabrics or objects from another culture. Adaptations: Gifted students can help Special Ed students by exploring together in small groups. EL students benefit from direct observation for context of objects.

This could also be used as an addition or subtraction domino game in lower grades without changing the integrity of the game. It would also be easy to use as the level of difficulty of your problems increase. Laminating them to different colors would allow easy coding as to the level of difficulty of the problem.

I would read a book about shapes first as part of the discussion on shapes. I like in the end when the students come back and tally their results. You could also do a bar graph with the tally marks.

Scavenger hunts are usually motivating for kids.

This is a great introduction to lines, rays, and angles. It incorporates literature. discussion, and hands on activities for visual learners.

K.OA.1 "Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings2, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations." K.OA.2 "Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within (e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem)." K.OA.3 "Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way (e.g., by using objects or drawings), and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).K.OA.4 For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number (e.g., by using objects or drawings), and record the answer with a drawing or equation."

Great activities for a winter theme unit!

These activities can be used as sensory counting activities for special needs students.

Extension: This game could include letters (A,B,C) to represent the sides of the polygon, so that the student could put the measurements into an equation. Adaptations: Gifted students could help peers who struggle with finding perimeter or measuring.  ELL students would benefit from the drawing in this activity and use of deck of cards which provide pictures. 

Extension: This game could include letters (A,B,C) to represent the sides of the polygon, so that the student could put the measurements into an equation.  Adaptations: Gifted students could help peers who struggle with finding perimeter or measuring.  ELL students would benefit from the drawing in this activity and use of deck of cards which provide pictures. 

You could tag this activity for "measurement" since it involves perimeter and measuring with centimeter rulers.

Your ENL students should be ok with this activity. An idea to differentiate would be to just have certain students only find sums of 10 if they are struggling to understand.