Showing posts with label cardinal direction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cardinal direction. Show all posts

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Water Balloon Compass

Integrate science and social studies by creating a water balloon compass! Click here for a video tutorial! Visit Questacon for written instructions!

Sunday, October 7, 2012

2D and 3D Geometric Towns

Integrate math, social studies, and art with 2 awesome projects! 

1. 2D GEOMETRIC TOWN (LINE SEGMENTS) - Check out ABC Teach Geometric Town Map project (more advanced)! View examples at Engrade and Mrs. Sandri Math.

2. 3D GEOMETRIC TOWN - Get creative and "develop basic mapping and geography skills including the use of symbols, compass directions, scale, and grid coordinates," by creating a 3D Town - Peggy Healy Stearns - (photo of town featured above). Visit Parent's Choice for free building pattern printables (store fronts / town accessories), as well as map printables (cardinal rose, coordinate grid, etc)! Also, check out Fun Stuff To Do for lots of 3D solid patterns for your town buildings, and see their version of a Geometric Town!

To turn this into a PBL project, combine the 2 activities! Make small 2D maps of your 3D geometric town. Share your town on a parent night! Pass out maps to the tourists (aka parents) and have them visit your Geometric Town!

Note: You can also add fractions to your town, click here for details!

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Magnetism



Featured Above:
1. Electromagnet and many more experiments with magnetism - Steve Spangler
2. Magnetism and Matter - Learning Ideas K-8 (magnet tested with a solid, liquid, and gas)
3. Magnetic Needle (Compass) - Arvind Gupta. Also, check out other magnetism experiments by Arvind Gupta here
4. Magnetic Money - Primer
5. Hanging Compass - LooLeDo (featured above) and Education
6. Magnetic Skeleton - Arvind Gupta
7. Magnetic Cereal - Steve Spangler

More! :
8. Basic Floating Compass - how stuff works and Steve Spangler
9. Magnetism Workbox - lots of cool experiments for kids from Karmamatopoeia
10. Magnetic Thinking Putty
11. Paint with magnets - from BIA SFClubhouse