Activities · 05-13-2016

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/2143 Red Balloon, Paul Klee, 1922

Activities · 03-08-2014

A warm-up is a short activity at the start of a lesson to jump-start students' thinking. Warm-ups have many purposes including: to introduce a new topic to reinforce skills to motivate students to prepare students to learn to assess how much students know The following warm-up uses data from a pedometer to reinforce math skills, geography, health, and well being. It also models how to incorporate exercise into a daily routine. (My students joked about my pedometer habit but were often curious...

Activities · 01-18-2014

A warm-up is a short activity at the start of a lesson to jump-start students' thinking. Warm-ups have many purposes including: to introduce a new topic to reinforce skills to motivate students to prepare students to learn to assess how much students know Warm-up time is also a great time to promote higher order thinking. For example, students who have mastered the math facts may be bored with the following warm-up:

Activities · 09-25-2013

The mental math problems below are both fun and challenging. Children must listen, combine the information, remember the information, and perform the operation. It is a playful way to reinforce facts and offers an alternative to rote memorization. This set is appropriate for children in grades 3-4, depending on their math levels, but you can alter the operations or content to differentiate for individual needs. After you complete these problems, have the children create their own. Encourage...

Activities · 07-22-2013

I always disliked tedious math fact drills, but the mental math problems below are both fun and challenging. Children must listen, combine the information, remember the information, and add. It is a playful way to reinforce basic addition facts and offers an alternative to rote memorization. This addition set is appropriate for children in grades 2-4, depending on their math levels. When you complete this set of problems, have the children create their own. Encourage them to use groups of items...