Showing posts with label outdoors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outdoors. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2015

7 Bohemian Inspired History Crafts

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Wearable art with educational lessons tied in! Visit We Are Teachers for the rest of the post!
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Plant Scavenger Hunt

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Take students outside for a plant scavenger hunt! Click here to download. Students tally how many vascular and nonvascular plants they ...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Sap to Syrup: States of Matter and Heat

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Explore what form of energy transforms maple sap into maple syrup, then maple candy! Video Introduction: Sap in the Sugar Maple Tree Boo...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Alphabet Grid: Phonics

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materials: sidewalk chalk or masking tape ABC GRID Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondance & Letter Recognition 1. Jump on letter n...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Watercycle Red Light Green Light

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Switch up Red Light Green Light by incorporating the water cycle! Precipitation = Green (Kids run and wiggle their fingers like rain) E...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Food Chain Freeze Tag

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This activity is inspired by Eecko World's "We're All In This Together." Rather than having kids play tag using organis...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Place Value Hopscotch

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Create a place value hopscotch with sidewalk chalk! (You can include higher values or decimals as well). One player hops and the other wat...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Water Wheels

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Integrate math (measuring), science / engineering (simple machines, force/motion, renewable energy), art (design), and history by construc...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Playground Prepositions

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Take your students out on the playground to explore prepositions!
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Outdoor Math + Checkers

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Practice your math skills by playing checkers! Check out Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational for a milk cap version (addition and su...
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Sunday, June 9, 2013

P.O.S. Musical Plates

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materials : paper plates (3 for each child) Write a noun, verb, or adjective on each paper plate. Lay the plates out in an open space out...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt

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Kids hunt for abiotic and biotic factors in their backyard (or school yard). Then, based on their observations, they create a food chain o...
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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Time Warp!

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Lay out the time warp mats , give kids a sentence, and have them run to the correct verb tense mat! Once on the mat, they identify the ver...
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Friday, May 31, 2013

Capacity Relay Race

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Split kids up into 2 teams. Give each team a bucket of water and a sponge. Across from each team set up different sized containers (cup, l...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Spiky Crystals

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Grow crystals in your fridge with epsom salt and hot water! Chemistry crystals (featured above) - Instructables Cup of Quick Crystal Nee...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Cubes and Color

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How does color affect how fast an ice cube will melt?! Investigate the heat absorbing capacity of different colors by placing ice cubes ...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Solar Energy Balloon Blow Up!

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Explore the power of the sun's heat by blowing up a balloon on a bottle! Kids paint one soda bottle white and the other black....
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Kid Meteorologist

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Become a weather watcher by making your own weather instruments! Rain Gauge - Measure rainfall -  Jameson's Lab Visit Scholast...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Solar Water

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Investigate renewable energy, while exploring the water cycle, with this fun experiment from Agoosa ! Kids magically turn salt water int...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Egg DROP!

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Humpty Dumpty Project: Can you keep an egg from cracking? Kids use any materials they want to protect their egg from a giant free fall! Th...