Using the small containers of play-doh (1 per child), various art supplies (pipe cleaners, google eyes, beads, feathers) we made playdough monsters! They turned out really cute. Click here for a link to a packet to go with this activity. There are a lot of things you can do with these cute little guys. We did a lot of writing and even created a classification system for them!
We used an idea I found on-line to make a baby book on an element from the periodic table. These projects turned out great! I bought the $20 Element book from Scholastic and it was the perfect resource for the project! Well worth the money! Check out the FREE directions and explanations I created here!
This is a super fun activity! We made these while studying the Revolutionary War. Each student was assigned a historical figure from the time period and they had to create a facebook page for the person! They were hysterical!! Before we completed the facebook pages, students had to put together a pocket biography for their person. This gave them the background information they needed in order to complete the facebook page. Click here for the FREE facebook page template and directions!
I bought one creature for each student in my class. Click here for the link to the etsy page! The woman who created these, set up a special item so I could buy 20 of them at one time. The kids loved them! We completed a packet full of fun ideas with our kooky creatures! Click here for the link to the student packet! Enjoy!
After visiting the Orton Hall Geology Museum on the OSU campus, we made our own fossil posters. The kids used a plastic skeleton of a dinosaur and a seashell to make the four different kinds of fossils!
Mold Fossil: A depressed mold, indentation of animal/plant.
Cast Fossil: A filled in mold, mud or other things filled in the fossil and left the imprint.
Trace Fossil: Evidence of something they left behind, scat, tracks, etc.
True Form Fossil: The entire animal/plant is fossilized.
I made paper mache eggs that contained plastic dinosaurs. It was pretty easy, I put the dinosaur into the balloon, and then covered with construction paper strips. I made a mixture of white glue and water. The kids had to predict what was in their egg, and then they got to hatch them! They had so much fun with this one!
We made landform models using model magic! The students had to write a definition of the ones they made and then they made a model. We pre-colored the model magic by daubing the white model magic with the color(s) of crayola markers we wanted to use. Super easy!
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We held our first Math and Science Day at my new school! It was a ton of fun! We rotated through 7 activities, the teachers in grades 3rd-5th all participated! The kids LOVED it! Each one got to make and take some really fun science and math stuff! Here is the link to the packet!
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