My teaching aids help your students to learn with interest and creativity. Each of my resources has been classroom tested and approved. I hope you and your students enjoy them, too!
My teaching aids help your students to learn with interest and creativity. Each of my resources has been classroom tested and approved. I hope you and your students enjoy them, too!
Each PowerPoint presentation shows your students about the unique geography of these Asian countries:
Russia
Japan
Korea (north and south)
China and Nepal
India
This is a brief, but comprehensive overview of the geography of North and South Korea. Topics covered include:
North Korea
Mountains and uplands
Plains
Rivers
Climate
South Korea
Rice fields
Rivers
Salt harvesting
Green Tea
Islands
All are organized by the geographic region with photographs.
This is a brief, but comprehensive overview of the geography of Russia. Topics covered include:
Steppes
Volcanoes
Mines
Tundras
Seaports
Glacial lakes
Caves
Rock formations
All are organized by the geographic region with photographs.
This is a brief, but comprehensive overview of the geography of China and its neighbor, Nepal. Topics include:
Green algae blooms
Yellow River
Great Wall of China
Mountains
Lakes
Oasis
Hong Kong
Natural bridges
Plateau
Mt. Everest
All are organized by geographic area with photographs.
This is a brief, but comprehensive overview of the geography of Japan. Topics covered include:
Archipelago
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Hiroshima
Lakes
Sandbars
Climate
Tsunami
All are organized by geographic region with photographs.
This PowerPoint presents the eight geographic areas of India with a brief description, location, and representative pictures.
The Himalayas
North East
Gangetic plain
Thar Desert
Central Highlands
Deccan Plateau
Eastern Ghats and Coast
Western Ghats and Coast
Bordering seas and islands
In this collection of games, I have helped you put the FUN in your day so you have some games that encourage social distancing among your students. They will be learning new ways to play traditional games and will learn some new games they can transfer to their home town playground, helping to keep them stay safe from infection there, too. Most of these games are for grades 4-8 but can be modified for older and younger students. Many of the games include a curricular component. Others encourage movement during the sedentary day. All involve FUN! Here is the list of titles for the games:
Outdoor Games
Tail tag
Human Bingo
Statues (with a twist)
Kicker Golf
March Mathness
Indoor Games
Clap Point clap
Human Sudoku
Rock, Paper, Scissors (with a twist)
Word Wobble
Where Did it Go?
Let’s Draw a Picture
The Masked Speaker (A game for masked players)8
BattleWord
Design a Game
Indoors or Outdoors
Follow the Leader (with a twist)
Common Ground
Stop!
Who is My Friend? (A game for masked players)
Virtual Games
21 and Done
Math Madness
Wheel of Misfortune
Silly Stories
Four Corners – Distance Learning Style
Virtual Scattergories
These puzzles operate the same way as numbered Sudoku puzzles except there are spaces filled with letters that spell a compound word.
There are 15 compound word puzzles in a 9x9 grid for you students to solve and then guess the word. The first letter of the word is highlighted for them.
An answer key at the end of the packet shows your students if they got their Sudoku correct.
This is great for students who are done with their assigned work early!
You only need erasable colored pencils to have fun with these Sudoku puzzles. They operate the same way as numbered Sudoku puzzles except there are spaces filled with colors and shapes instead of numbers. These are great for your dyslexic students who have a difficult time with numbers.
The shape puzzles add an additional degree of difficulty in that you have both colors and shapes that need to be placed in the appropriate squares.
An answer key at the end of the packet shows your students if they got their Sudoku correct.
There are 10 color Sudoku puzzle, 8 that use shapes, and 2 that have punctuation marks for a total of 20 puzzles. They are on a 9x9 grid.
This is great for students who are done with their assigned work early!
Watch how eagerly your students investigate options for their creative writing assignments as they click on interactive images to find fun and interesting topics.
The six basic categories are:
Biography and World Records prompts
How-to prompts
How it’s Made prompts
History Prompts
Nature Prompts
Personal Prompts
Within each category are subcategories that link to ideas to explore.
Colorful pictures encourage your students to creatively develop new stories. No longer do you need to read the same article about SpaceX!
Watch how eagerly your students investigate options for their creative writing assignments as they click on interactive images to find fun and interesting topics.
The six basic categories are:
Farm Prompts
Fantasy Prompts
School Prompts
Neighborhood Prompts
Vacation Prompts
Time Travel Prompts
Within each category are subcategories that link to ideas to explore.
Colorful pictures encourage your students to creatively develop new stories. No longer do you need to read the same lost puppy story!
This mask PATTERN is unique in that it includes a dart on each side of a center seam to allow for easier breathing and less feeling of suffocation while wearing the mask.
Detailed instructions are easy to follow with images for each step.
Materials needed to complete this pattern are:
• Two pieces of cotton fabric approximately 8” x 20”
• Optional: If you want a three-layered mask, use a layer of interfacing and sew just like the top and bottom fabrics.
• 4” piece of a pipe cleaner (for the nose pincher)
• 26” of ¼” elastic, cut in half
• OR 48” of ¼” ribbon, cut in half
After your initial preparation, the beauty of this activity is that it is entirely student-driven! They will know whether they got the correct answer to the clue because there is a self-correcting code to crack. Everyone participates, because when one group finishes before the others, the rules of the quest include the instruction to split up and help another group finish.
The instructions below are for 6 groups of students. If you have fewer groups, follow the directions in parentheses.
Materials needed:
Construction paper: Yellow, Red, and Blue
18 business-size envelopes (15 for 5 groups, 12 for 4 groups)
3 small boxes (shoe boxes are perfect)
Copy paper
3 markers
Adhesive tape
Assorted prizes
Preparation:
1. Print three lock images. It’s okay if you don’t have a color printer – simply print in black and white and attach to the colored construction paper.
2. Designate each box as Newton’s First Law (blue), Second Law (yellow), and Third Law (red). Attach the prepared lock images to each box.
3. Cut eighteen 3” x 5” rectangles from the yellow, red, and blue construction paper. Attach to the envelopes: 6 yellow, 6 red, and 6 blue. (15 for 5 groups, 12 for 4 groups)
4. Print the Clue Sheet for each combination. Insert it in the designated color envelope.
5. Before the students enter the room, hide the envelopes.
6. Show the PowerPoint.
7. At the BEGIN slide, let the students search for the envelopes. Remind them that only one person from a group may be up and searching. Each time they look for an envelope, a different group member searches for a different color.
8. When the students get their combination number, one person will enter it on the box locks. This activity has self-correcting answers! If they don’t get a number as an answer, they will know that it is incorrect! If you have fewer than six groups, simply place a random number in the spaces you don’t use.
9. When one group finishes with three different color envelopes, they are to split up and help other groups.
10. When all the groups have finished, go over all the examples for each of Newton’s Laws of Motion. Either let the students present their findings, or you can show the finished products to the class, elaborating on each.
11. Show the reward slides on the PowerPoint. Some examples of rewards include homework passes, extra points on tests, dollar store goodies, stickers, etc.
12. When the activity is over, post the examples of each law next to the locks so everyone can see each other’s examples every day for a while!
This interactive program covers these topics on matter:
* Measuring
* Properties of Matter
* Changes of State
* Physical and Chemical changes
* States of Matter
The format allows you to click between the main screen, the question, the incorrect answer screen, and the correct answer screen. When the question is used, the dollar amount changes color.
This is a brief, but comprehensive overview of the geography of North and South Korea. Topics covered include:
North Korea
* Mountains and uplands
* Plains
* Rivers
* Climate
South Korea
* Rice fields
* Rivers
* Salt harvesting
* Green Tea
* Islands
All are organized by the geographic region with photographs. NOTE: this is ONLY about the geography, not the politics of the region.
Note: Make sure you play the PowerPoint, rather than simply look at the single slides. You'll see that some pictures and paragraphs disappear on a single slide before the next picture or paragraph appear on the same slide. I did this to create interest!
This is a brief, but comprehensive overview of the geography of Japan. Topics covered include:
* Archipelago
* Volcanoes
* Earthquakes
* Hiroshima
* Lakes
* Sandbars
* Climate
* Tsunami
All are organized by geographic region with photographs.
Note: Make sure you play the PowerPoint, rather than simply look at the single slides. You'll see that some pictures and paragraphs disappear on a single slide before the next picture or paragraph appear on the same slide. I did this to create interest!
This is a brief, but comprehensive overview of the geography of Japan. Topics covered include:
* Archipelago
* Volcanoes
* Earthquakes
* Hiroshima
* Lakes
* Sandbars
* Climate
* Tsunami
All are organized by geographic region with photographs.
Note: Make sure you play the PowerPoint, rather than simply look at the single slides. You'll see that some pictures and paragraphs disappear on a single slide before the next picture or paragraph appear on the same slide. I did this to create interest!
This is a brief, but comprehensive overview of the geography of China and its neighbor, Nepal. Topics include:
* Green algae blooms
* Yellow River
* Great Wall of China
* Mountains
* Lakes
* Oasis
* Hong Kong
* Natural bridges
* Plateau
* Mt. Everest
All are organized by geographic area with photographs.
Note: Make sure you play the PowerPoint, rather than simply look at the single slides. You'll see that some pictures and paragraphs disappear on a single slide before the next picture or paragraph appear on the same slide. I did this to create interest!
This mini-guide to STEM activities includes the following topics:
Projects:
Magic Rainbow PopUp Card - a service-learning project
Create Rain From Ice Cubes
Design a Bucky Ball Model
Cooking Up A STEM Lesson: Egg Candling
Creative Connections Game
STEM Birthday Celebrations
Go Figure Game
Articles for adults:
STEM Education Influences Future Career Plans
Build Your Child's Library
Continue Your FUNtastic Family STEM Adventures