Cards used for sorting by color, type of clothing, pattern. Also, can be used to create patterns. Different cards with animals, toys, and shapes available as well.
Students who are more advanced can write down the name of the shape they made. When blowing bubbles the students could also count how many bubbles they were able to make with each shape and write that number down.
ELL students could practice just making the shapes with pipe cleaners.
Students who are farther behind could work with other students in creating different shapes, but after that they could blow their own bubbles outside.
The students could also skip the bubble blowing and just create shapes with pipe cleaners and glue these on paper to create a pipe cleaner shape display.
Older students could also do this activity with more advanced shapes.
Understanding fractions can be tough! Try using a deck of playing cards to formulate fractions. In this activity, you will randomly deal cards onto a game board, representing three different fractions. Work together to evaluate whether or not those fractions are in order from greatest to least. Use a calculator to help you solve, and come to a better understanding about the value of different fractions.
Extension: This activity can connect math with art if pictures, or number lines, or graphs are used with this activity to represent the fractions and number order.
Adaptations: Manipulatives can be used for this activity. Gifted students can help peers with game. Special Ed students can draw or graph the fractions if this helps them to better understand concepts.
Extensions: Add graphing of fractions or drawing of fractions to help with understanding. This would connect math with art.
Adaptations: Add manipulatives if needed. Gifted students could help peers in game. Keep the denominators the same in fractions to help Special Ed students. ELL students would benefit from pictures or graphing of fractions.
5.NF.1 Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators.
Differentiation:
Have gifted students go a step further. Time them to race against each other in how fast they can collect 16 cards. Reward PR's!
This activity helps students to practice solving proportions. STudents will make fractions out of playing cards and then practice making them equivalent and solving the proportion.
Extensions: Natural Science connects with History (Colonial Herbs)
Adaptations: Gifted students can research herbs from the Colonial time period in history. Students will then select an herb to grow from seed and document sunlight requirements and results. ESL & Special Ed students can keep a journal of drawings that depict findings in experiment.
There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited. The good news is that all that pirate booty can be used to boost their math skills. Here's how to work the numbers as they sort their loot.
2.MD.1 Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
Differentiation:
For gifted students, have them write out the addition sentence for each problem.
In this game the students must roll a dice and add the numbers together, then they must select a material that is that number in length. The first student to reach exactly 100 cm wins.
Extensions: Science & Music are connected in this activity.
Adaptations: Gifted students can make a rubber band instrument that plays a scale or tune. ESL & Special Ed students can draw a picture of the instrument they would like to create or help make the instrument. (Small groups will work on this project together)
Sensational Sounds Projects: Sound Sandwich - 6th Grade
All sound starts with vibration, and that vibration can come from just about anything. In this activity, your breath will cause two rubber bands to vibrate. Then, you will see if you can change the pitch, or how high or low we hear a sound.
Supplies: Download the PDF
There are multiple activities on this site that would be beneficial. I don't see a 6.3.22 standard in the 2010 standards. Is this a typo? There are several third grade standards that deal with sound.
Students can work in pairs to help understand the concept. For students who are farther behind or are ELLs the teacher could model the activity with the students so they would be able to follow along easily.
For the students who are more advanced you could ask them to figure out the fractions on their own or try doing harder division with two fractions instead of just one fraction and a whole number.
Have students take home feeders and hang them outside homes. Then have them make predictions about activity level and write down observations every evening for a week. Hang a feeder outside of the school and compare results.
Make a Hummingbird feeder: A little complicated, so maybe get a couple of parent volunteers to help with this project. Make a literary connection by reading a story about hummingbirds, then discuss how they fit in our ecosystem.
Pair students up based on ability levels. Have an advanced student work with another to create the telescope. They will get to be the "teacher" without having to single anyone out.
This activity can be used in older grade levels. In the older levels students could work with other materials besides corks and toothpicks.
ELLs can be paired with native English speakers to help design their boat. The ELL could put the boat together while the native English speaker writes down the steps to making the boat.
Extensions: Connect Earth Science with Math and Art. Also includes Natural Sciences.
Adaptations: Gifted students can record daily weather observations in a notebook and create a graph or tally chart of the different types of weather that they examined. ESL & Special Ed students can draw daily weather patterns in notebook or create pictograph charts of weather with tally marks to indicate frequency.
Construct a Weather Spinner: - Earth Science
Intro to Natural Sciences - your child will learn to see details and patterns in atmospheric conditions. A simple weather spinner provides an accessible tool for your child to improve her observation and analysis ability, important scientific skills she will use for the rest of her life.
Supplies: White tag board or poster board, pencil, crayons, markers, or colored pencils, and a metal brad.
Have students write what they found about one leaf and take or draw a picture of the leaf before the color change occurs. Then put all the artifacts in a scrap book for the class library.
Observing leaves as they change color. The filters are used to transfer the colors of the leaves. Tape off part of the leaf and watch as light makes it change color like they do in the fall.
Students can design a water wheel in groups and see how the wheel works. To extend this experiment students could then work together to make improvements to their wheel.
This activity could also be connected to social studies. Students could see how water wheels have evolved over the years and what their uses were and are.
Students can build a water wheel and see the force of water in motion. They can also experiment with different forces and see how they affect the water wheel.
Students who need help constructing the rod can work in pairs to complete it or the teacher can have a few already made for those students. ELL students can work with a native English speaker when constructing the item to make sure they understand the instructions. Students who have a good understanding of energy could write a paper about what they see and why it happens.
In this activity, a metal rod can be made to roll back to you automatically when pushed away. This activity deals with stored energy. The students can construct their own metal rods.