What a natural – Earth Day and Arbor Day (no pun intended)! This year the Arbor Day Foundation will plant trees in the national forests from donations for you. Commemorate a child’s birth with a tree in one of America’s national forests! They also have on their website lots of ideas for activities with...
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Earth Day Network that has lots of activities to do with students in grades K – 8. We will be watching “The Lorax” and planting a tree. What are you going to do for Earth Day?
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Friday I attended the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning conference and I was blown away by the amount of information available. I already use computers and our i-pad in the classroom but it was wonderful to learn of other applications and uses to reinforce and help my students learn. Fortunately I have...
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What fun! To play with this soft, pliable material is great for all ages! You can’t help but smile when you are holding Flubber and it is so easy to make. Place in one bowl and mix 1 1/2 cups warm water 2 cups elmer white glue food coloring In another bowl mix the...
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Kids like to discover new things around them and discovering flavors and smells around them. I did a little smell survey with my group using cocoa, chili powder, nutmeg and cinnamon. Since all of the colors were fairly close, it made really have to use their sense of smell to determine what the...
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Eating ice cream is grand, but making it with your own hands if so much fun too! You don’t need much to make ice cream at home. Materials: 1/2 cup of milk 2 T. sugar 1 teaspoon of vanilla 6 Tablespoons of rock salt 3 -4 cups of ice 1 pint Zip-loc bag 1...
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Discovering everything is either a solid, liquid or a gas can be fun! We did an activity to help my students get an understanding of molecules and how they are are joined together, I had them smush together tight and asked, “Can you move around?” The response was immediate, “No!” Then I explained that...
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This activity is fun for kids to do. Start with an egg or a chicken leg. Let them example it, see and feel how hard it is, try to bend it. Then explain that they’ll be doing an experiment to see what happens when you put the egg or chicken bone in vinegar. ...
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One of the activities that every kid loves it building with these large scale plastic rods with connectors. Today’s challenge was to make a rocket as a team. They understood the concept of making a rocket but working as a team…well, some did and some didn’t. If you don’t have the tubes a simple...
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After showing pictures of astronaut space suits and talking about some of the special features, like: a tube in the helmet to drink water a build-in microphone to speak to your team water cooling system that runs close...
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